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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that features approximately 2,606,409 articles in English and somewhere around 10 million total. The ‘Wiki’ phenomenon that has swept the world over the past several years is one of the more highly controversial topics among students, teachers, and everyday people alike.

The main argument against the Internet’s most popular information [...]

Clearly over here at The Core we are huge baseball fans, and I, being a Met fan always wondered about the origins of CitiField, the new home of the New York Mets. Citifield—named due to its funding by Citibank—was built over the last year to be the new home to the Mets following Shea Stadium. [...]

The 2009 U.S. Open-skies is finally complete as of a few hours ago and like all major golf tournaments, the final round was the definition of exciting. But while players and fans will quickly turn their attention to the British Open and the PGA Championship (in July and August respectively), the U.S. Open raised some [...]

Just when we all thought that the world financial crisis was really hitting home, Russian gagilionaie Roman Abramovich launched his new yacht in Germany yesterday. Abramovich, who was recently estimated to be the 51st richest man in the world by Forbes (with $8.5 billion), will add his new ship—Eclipse—to his private fleet which includes four [...]

Its that time of year again. School’s out, the sun is shining (well, kinda), and for techies, this means one thing: new toys! The summer has only just begun but electronic manufacturers have already rolled out their newest gadgets, gizmos, and miscellaneous electronic thingamajigs. Microsoft has introduced its Google competitor search engine “Bing”, Palm has [...]

Last April, Core Junction co-founder Jacob Shapiro wrote an article about Royal Caribbean’s new cruise ship, project named Genesis of the Seas. The ship would allegedly feature a scaled Central Park and service 5,500 passengers (with 3,000 staff as well). A year later, much more is known about project Genesis, including the new name, Oasis [...]

Moments ago I returned from my first trip to my local Circuit City to check out the liquidation sale that is just over a week old. I returned empty handed and was unable to spend any money on low priced, high quality merchandise to cheer myself up in the middle of a stark winter.
Since the [...]