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>> The following are among those articles and features revised over the past month:
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Frankie Valli and the Four Season
French bulldog
Laurence Olivier
Swine flu outbreak
The Who
New articles:
Canterbury Cathedral (England)
Fibonacci sequence (number series)
Hare Krishna movement (religion)
Kung Fu (martial arts)
Lobotomy (surgical operation)
Order of operations (mathematics)
St. Paul's Cathedral (England)
Swine flu (type of influenza)
New dictionary entries:
hyponatremia
nanoscale
Revised articles:
Digestive system
Euler, Leonhard
Iron Age
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World Book is working with Meta Metrics to determine if and how it could become practicable to apply the Lexile system to our content.
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>> Harvard Citation Builder
June 2009 saw the launch of the much anticipated additional function Harvard Citation Builder to World Book Advanced.
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