http://wwwscout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/KIDS/current/index.html
KIDS Report, April 17 Edition—"Planets"
The latest issue of Net Scout's KIDS (Kids Identifying and Discovering Sites) Report, produced by 7th grade students at Cherokee Middle School (Madison, Wisconsin, Metropolitan School District), contains eleven annotated sites related to the planets. Among them are the Hubble Space Telescope's "Greatest Hits," SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space), the Never Ending Quiz, and Windows to the Universe.
http://stats.bls.gov/cpigmtoc.htm
Experimental CPI Using Geometric Means—US Bureau of Labor Statistics
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics will shortly begin an experimental Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers using a "geometric mean formula to combine individual price quotations at the lower level of aggregation." The experimental index will be called "the Experimental CPI Using Geometric Means or CPI-U-XG." BLS claims the new index will adjust the CPI to reflect "the fact that consumers can and do change spending patterns as relative prices change."
http://www.uscharterschools.org/
US Charter Schools Provided by WestEd
This is a California-based non-profit education research organization, the California State University Institute for Education Reform, and the US Department of Education. The primary audiences for the site are people actually involved in creating, sponsoring and running charter schools, as well as technicians, scholars, and policy makers. Resources are organized into four main categories: starting and running your school, school information exchange, resource directory and links, and searching other charter school sites.
Healthfinder—US Department of Health and Human Services
This site, recently opened by the Department of Health and Human Services, acts as a "gateway consumer health information web site." In addition to DHHS agencies, 12 other federal agencies provide health-related information. At the heart of the site is a searchable and browsable interface of available resources. Users can browse resources alphabetically by using a simple drop-down menu search form, or by selecting from any of 31 major subject topics to find annotated organization and/or web resources. The "pubs" section features key word searching for online publications and contains a large list of publications catalogs as well as pointers to seventeen medical dictionaries and glossaries.
http://pathfinder.com/fortune/fortune500/
1996 Fortune 500 From General Motors Corporation ($168 billion in revenues) to Vencor, Inc. ($2.58 billion)
Details on the 500 companies in the latest Fortune 500 list are available at the Fortune site. The list can be viewed by revenue, alphabetically (index) for stock price information, or by industry for over fifty industries. There are also medians for nine earnings categories, and top performers for twelve. A CEO list is included and the site is searchable by company, industry, or CEO. Balance sheets and stock snapshots are provided for most companies listed, as are web links when available. There are also several articles. Note that the list, medians, and top performers are also available in Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) format, and the .PDF version of the list also contains information in thirteen balance sheet categories.
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