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...insisting that all students ought to receive a liberal-arts education with an understanding of that philosophy. He helped revise the core curriculum at the University of Chicago accordingly, and conceived the Great Books program, which is based on 443 classics reprinted in a 54-volume set by Encyclopaedia Britannica. His works include How to Read a Book, Aristotle for Everybody and Six Great Ideas...
...With a monolithic organization like Time Warner, it's not going to give them any significant incremental profit, but it will certainly complete a product," said Cooma Chelliah, Senior Vice President of britannica.com, the online site of Encyclopedia Britannica...
...half-century after the Korean War, THE PENTAGON has just revised the number of Americans killed in the conflict, from 54,246 to 36,940. It seems that the higher figure--endorsed by the Encyclopaedia Britannica and engraved on the five-year-old KOREAN WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL on the National Mall in Washington--cropped up shortly after both sides declared a truce in 1953 and has been repeated, erroneously, ever since...
KNOWLEDGE TO GO The venerable Encyclopaedia Britannica (founded 1768) announced last week that it would make its entire contents--all 44 million words--available on the popular Palm VII handheld computer, via the Palm VII's wireless Internet connection and a free program called Britannica Traveler (downloadable at palm.net) Surfers already have access to the encyclopedia at Britannica.com Now, with the pocket-size Palm VII, they'll be able to browse all 32 of Britannica's volumes wherever they go, from Aachen to Zwickau...
...spirited debate, conducted via e-mail, between two acclaimed science journalists: John Horgan, author of the controversial book The End of Science, and Paul Hoffman, former editor of Discover magazine and past president of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...