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...last.) Loyal Wikipedians argue that collaboration improves articles over time, just as free open-source software like Linux and Firefox is more robust than for-profit competitors because thousands of amateur programmers get to look at the code and suggest changes. It's the same principle that New Yorker writer James Surowiecki asserted in his best seller The Wisdom of Crowds: large groups of people are inherently smarter than an élite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Wiki, Wiki World | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...Saturday morning, and like a typical New Yorker, Biz Johnson-Brown, 31/2, is running late. Class has already been in session for half an hour when she parks her purple Princess bike near the door and, accompanied by her father, Bruce Brown, joins half a dozen other children as they climb and crawl and tiptoe their way through a miniature obstacle course under the relentlessly cheerful supervision of their beloved drill sergeant, Miss Leah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rediscovering Playtime | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

Khan, who is deciding between job offers from the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker, said she switched from History and Literature to English “because I wanted to do a creative thesis, and because I want to be a writer when I get out of here...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hoopes Prizes Awarded | 5/18/2005 | See Source »

From advertisements from alumni publications to the New Yorker, Touchings said The Right Stuff uses a number of methods to market itself to graduates and faculty of the schools on its list, and future recruitment efforts will focus more on current students...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Choosing Dates With Diplomas | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

...years. Yet there is almost no mention of the Red Sox. The most important cultural institution New England has ever produced barely exists. True, Dawson is a bit of a weenie, but surely Pacey could be a Red Sox fan? Or how about some kind of rivalry with New Yorker Jen concerning the Yankees? Nothing...

Author: By David Weinfeld, | Title: Joey Potter, Hillel, and Me | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

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