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the leading information retrieval service of the Internet (q.v.; the worldwide computer network). The Web gives users access to a vast array of documents that are connected to each other by means of ...
computer programming language
In the early 1990s, Java was designed by Sun Microsystems, Inc., as a programming language for the World Wide Web (WWW). Although it resembled C++ in appearance, it was fully object-oriented. In ...
Health and Disease
Reports issued at the end of the year drew attention to critical failures in the U.S. health care system. A committee of the Institute of Medicine found "stunningly high rates of medical ...
Religion
(For figures on Adherents of All Religions by Continent, see Table I; for Adherents in the U.S., see Table II.)Business and Industry Review
Despite some 5,000-6,000 items on retailers' shelves and efforts to spread sales more evenly throughout the year, the toy industry in 1998 again witnessed a year-end frenzy of a "must-have" holiday ...
Citizen Journalism: A News [R]evolution
The phenomenon called "citizen journalism" expanded its worldwide influence in 2008 in spite of continuing concerns over whether "citizen" journalists were "real" journalists. Citizens in disaster ...
Poetry for the People
Anyone who believed in 1998 that American poetry had perished or was clinging to life only among a small group of academics writing inaccessible verse for themselves alone might have been surprised ...
HTML
a formatting system for displaying text, graphics, and audio retrieved over the Internet on a computer monitor. Each retrieval unit is known as a Web page (from World Wide Web), and such pages ...
computer programming language
The World Wide Web is a system for displaying text, graphics, and audio retrieved over the Internet on a computer monitor. Each retrieval unit is known as a Web page, and such pages frequently ...
Health and Disease
On rare occasions a clinical trial involving a large number of subjects is terminated early because the preliminary results are so dramatic. This was the case in November when an international team ...
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