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by Al Massey |
The HALNet Hot Spot is Sue and Marvin Schubert's home page. If you are a die-hard Rocket fan, this is a nice place to visit. Check out some of the hot links to other sites particularly if you are interested in animated GIFs or transparent images. It is nice to see HAL-PC members design a well laid out page using examples of some new technologies. Well done, Sue and Marvin.
The "New England Journal of Medicine," a weekly journal reporting the results of important medical research worldwide, is provided by the Massachusetts Medical Society and has recently established a presence on the Web. The site provides full text of selected sections of the Journal, including "Images in Clinical Medicine," "Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital," "Molecular Medicine," editorials, opinion pieces, correspondence, and book reviews. Original, special, and review articles contain extended abstracts with some or all of the following: background, methods, results, conclusions, and source information. Full text of these articles is available for a fee, and can be ordered online. Journals are available from January 1, 1996 to the present. In addition, the site offers a searchable employment database that contains opportunities in over 40 specialties ranging from addiction medicine to urology; a searchable database of upcoming medical meetings; a selected list of pointers to other medicine-related sites including the Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health, and "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report," among others; and an exhaustive set of guidelines for manuscript submission.
http://www.forbes.com/asap/gilder/telecosm.htm and the Forbes home page: http://www.forbes.com/
A Highlight of the new Forbes Magazine Web site is the full-text archive from George Gilder's book, Telecosm. In this in-progress book, to be published by Simon and Schuster, Gilder discusses the communications revolution and its implications for the future. It is a sequel to his books Microcosm, published in 1989, and Life After Television, published in 1992. "Forbes ASAP" has been running excerpted chapters from Telecosm since 1994. At present there are 17 in the archive, including "In the fibersphere," "Auctioning the airwaves," "Michael Milken and the two trillion dollar opportunity," "The bandwidth title wave," "The coming software shift," and "Angst & awe on the Internet." Future excerpts will be published in "Forbes ASAP" and should be available in the archive. The rest of the Forbes site is very much a work in progress which promises to provide full text of "Forbes", "Forbes FYI" and "Forbes ASAP." At present selected articles from "Forbes," and "Forbes FYI" are available. Telecosm archive:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/
The well known ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) Project of the University of Chicago has recently begun a pilot project to make an online version of the entire Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Metiers et des Arts (Encyclopedie), by Diderot and d'Alembert, available. The encyclopedia, written between 1751 and 1772, contains 17 volumes, of which Volume One (AA-AZYMITES) is available for searching. Researchers can view an ASCII text rendering of retrieved articles, or facsimile images of the actual pages. The first volume can be searched by headword, author, classification of knowledge, or parts of speech. All retrieval is in French. The headword and classification fields are linked to inverted indexes of their contents to help facilitate searching. The final product is scheduled to include all seventeen volumes of text and eleven volumes of plates that composed the first edition of the work. The Encyclopedie pilot is one of the publicly available portions of the ARTFL project,which include image databases of French Revolutionary pamphlets, and Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, among others. Encyclopedie: http://tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/mark/ENC_DEMO/ and the ARTFL Home Page: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/
The Cato Institute is a think tank based on "limited government, free markets, individual liberty, and peace." Its Web site is highlighted by the full text of many of its Briefing Papers, all of its Foreign Policy Briefing Series, over 100 of its Policy Analysis Series, all of its Social Security Privatization Series, and articles from its semi-monthly Cato Policy Reports (under Publications and Broadcasts). In addition, the site offers information about the Institute, its staff, its events, and its other publications.
Rainforest Action Network, founded in 1985, "works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action." RAN's Web site includes information about the organization, its recent campaigns (including Amazon protection and wood reduction campaigns, among others), rainforests (including world rainforest movement contacts by region and selected book reviews), recent RAN "victories," and actions and demonstrations the group recently participated in. A Kid's Corner contains information about how kids can help save rainforests. Note: RAN is an activist, openly partisan organization that makes no bones about its biases.
http://voter96.cqalert.com/cq_job.htm
Congressional Quarterly has recently added an enhancement to its Web site, CQ's American Voter '96 On the Job. Here you can search your House or Senate member by name, zip code, or state, and find a detailed profile, and available recent floor speeches, bills filed, and committee roll call votes.
http://www.hway.net/zuzu/index.htm
The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource contains over 1,500 links to resources for writers, artists, performers, and researchers. These links are organized by topic, and include library and archival resources, literary magazines and ezines, resources for poets, writers, and artists, grant information, writer's conferences and workshops, performing arts links, resources for movie lovers, and resources for creative kids, among many others. The site also contains full text from its quarterly "Zuzu's Petals" magazine, along with selected back issues. The present issue contains four works of fiction and 25 of poetry.
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