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...writing career. One explanation is his rivalry with Agee. In that 1958 essay - a piece so conflicted it could have been called "Let Us Now Praise/Blame Little/Big Men" - Manny seemed to prefer the Time Agee to the Nation one: "Agee's Time stint added up to a sharp, funny encyclopedia on the film industry in the 1940s. Though he occasionally lapsed into salesmanship through brilliantly subtle swami glamour (Henry V, the Ingrid Bergman cover story), Agee would be wisely remembered for quick biographies and reviews, particularly about such happy garbage as June Haver musicals and an early beatnik satire Salome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manny Farber: Termite of Genius | 8/26/2008 | See Source »

...James P. Currier, founder and chairman of Medpedia—what aims to become the world's largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine and health—recalls scouring the Web for medical information while comforting a sick child or two. Even for a tech-savvy entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, readily-accessible, credible information was not easy to find online...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Medical School To Help Build Wikipedia for Medicine | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

...unknown man like Abouhalima (''Mahmud the Red'') is considered a threat to the entire world and deserves a TIME cover, then you will have to issue an encyclopedia to focus on the macrothreats to the U.S. and other countries. Murat Sinag Berkeley, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MAKING OF A ZEALOT | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...This book constitutes the wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work.' J.K. ROWLING, author of the Harry Potter series, testifying against the planned publication of rival Potter encyclopedia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

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