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...Within the ten segments there are 42 divisions, 189 sections and 15,000 separate subjects-each of which is accompanied by references to the 19-volume Macropaedia, a browser's paradise of 4,207 major articles, biographies and geographical descriptions in the traditional alphabetical order. Thus, if a reader wants a detailed description of icebergs, for example, he looks in the Propaedia under Part Two-The Earth; then under Division II-The Earth's envelope: its atmosphere and hydrosphere. Next, beneath the listing for "The distribution of water in the hydrosphere," he finds the heading "Ice." Finally...
...more direct route to a thumbnail sketch of icebergs, the reader merely finds the listing "Icebergs" in the alphabetized ten-volume Micropaedia, a fact finder's treasury of 102,214 short articles, none more than 750 words long and most much shorter. Because all the information for the Micropaedia is stored in computers, it will be easier to update than material in earlier editions...
College Credit. While any reader can simply monitor the newspaper course, some 4,000 persons have elected to receive college credit for it. They have registered with one of the 182 colleges and universities affiliated with the program and paid fees ranging from $35 to $45. That entitles them to participate in two discussion classes supervised by a college instructor and to take two tests, one at mid-term and the other at the conclusion of the 20-week course. For an additional $10, credit students receive a kit that includes a record, 50 additional lectures and articles, a study...
...influence of the newspaper course has begun to spread beyond the living room. In New Canaan, Conn. -where the course runs in the Advertiser and 29 reader-students are enrolled for credit at the University of Connecticut-a community group has sponsored lectures based on the series, drawing as many as 75 listeners. A book club in San Diego uses the articles for regularly scheduled group discussions. Even prisoners - at least 46 from four states - have signed...
Burglars enter the home of Robert Tonis, chief of Harvard police, while the chief is leading a sensitivity session for rookie policemen. In hopes of updating its image, Harvard Magazine is changing its name to My Weekly Reader, John T. Bethell, editor of the magazine, announces...