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CyberTorch Classroom Project - tracking the Olympic
Torch
The Global SchoolNet Foundation has initiated the CyberTorch project to
help classrooms across the country track the (Olympic) torch during its
trek, and record the stories of the heroes who are carrying it. Students
in the communities the torch passes through are encouraged to interview
local torch bearers, who are often chosen because of previous heroic
activities, and share those interviews with other CyberTorch participants.
The CyberTorch page will be a focal point for these stories as they
develop. It presently contains listings of torch bearers by state. There
is a link to the Coca Cola Torch Relay Page, with a map of the Torch Relay
from Los Angeles to Atlanta. CyberTorch maintains a mailing list to keep
participating schools appraised of project developments, as well as a
moderated mailing list that exclusively carries student interviews and
relay accounts.
http://www.gsn.org/torch/
Torch Talk CyberTorch project developments:
Send a email to:
majordomo@gsn.org
In the body of the message type:
subscribe torch-talk
Moderated list for student interviews and accounts:
Send a email to:
majordomo@gsn.org
In the body of the message type:
subscribe torch
For other innovative Global SchoolNet Foundation projects which "link
kids around the world":
http://www.gsn.org/
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OMNI - biomedical information
OMNI (Organizing Medical Networked Information) is a collection of "high
quality biomedical information on the Internet for the higher education
and research community in the UK." Though it is predominantly UK based,
it also points to worldwide network resources in medicine, biosciences,
health care, and health management. The user can browse the resource
listings worldwide or by UK only. Either way the listings are available by
UDC (Universal Decimal System) and NLM (National Library of Medicine)
classifications. NLM listings are also available via an alphabetical list
of NLM section names from AIDS to Urogenital system. Each pointer is
annotated with a short description and keywords. The entire site is
searchable. The breadth and volume of resources, as well as the care
taken in annotating and classifying them, makes this one of the better
medical sites on the Internet. OMNI also maintains a mailing list for
dissemination of news and comments about the service. OMNI is supported
by a seven member consortium led by the UK National Institute for Medical
Research.
http://omni.ac.uk
OMNI mailing list: Send a email to:
mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk
In the body of the message type:
Join omni firstname(s) lastname
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The Internet University
The Internet University, provided by Cape Software, is an annotated
listing of over 300 college and university distance learning courses
available via the Internet. Course information is arranged by subject
from Arts to Sociology. Information is provided about the institution
offering the course, as well as tuition, fees, and contact information. A
"Providers" section organizes information by college or university. A
"Research" section provides links to mailing lists, FTP sites, Usenet
newsgroups, and telnet and Web sites with information about "online
college and university study resources." In the future Cape Software
plans an "Internet High School," with online high school and equivalency
providers, and an "Internet Pilgrim," with online spiritual
resources.
http://www.caso.com/
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19th-century American poets
The American Verse Project, a part of the University of Michigan
Humanities Text Initiative, is assembling an electronic archive of
volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. Full texts are being made
available in both HTML and SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language).
At present, over twenty five verse volumes are available. Authors
include William Cullen Bryant, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and George Sylvester
Viereck, among others. HTML versions include scanned images of title
pages, verso pages, and tables of contents. Volumes can be viewed in
their entirety or by table of contents entries. There is an option for
revealing line groupings and line identifications. The entire collection
is searchable, with Boolean and proximity searching available.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/
For SGML versions, you will need an SGML viewer attached to your
browser. See the Scout Toolkit for information on SGML and Panorama, a
freely available SGML viewer for Windows.
http://rs.internic.net/scout/toolkit/panorama.html
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President Clinton's 1996 Trade Policy Agenda and 1995
Annual Report on the Trade Agreements Program
Full text of President Clinton's recently released 1996 Trade Policy
Agenda and 1995 Annual Report on the Trade Agreements Program, is
available at the U.S. Trade Representative's Web Page. The Trade Policy
Agenda contains Clinton's agenda for implementation of U.S. trade
agreements such as the Uruguay Round Agreements and NAFTA (North
American Free Trade Agreement), as well as bilateral agenda highlights,
regional trade and investment, and multilateral negotiations. The 1995
Annual Report contains a complete rundown of U.S. bilateral,
multilateral, and regional trade activities for the year. Also included
are selected sections of U.S. trade law, membership and structure of the
WTO (World Trade Organization), and a list of "substantive trade agreements
entered into by the U.S. since 1984."
http://www.ustr.gov/reports/tpa/1996/contents.html
The 1994 Annual Report, 1995 and 1996 National Trade Estimate between
the United States and many countries, and a comprehensive trade and
development policy for the countries of Africa are also available.
http://www.ustr.gov/reports/index.html
U.S. Trade Representative's Home Page:
http://www.ustr.gov/
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NTIS Catalogs
One of the highlights of the new NTIS (National Technical Information
Service) Web site is the full text availability (Adobe Acrobat .PDF
format) of several of its most requested catalogs. Included are the
1995-1996 Products and Services catalog, Business Highlights, Environment
Highlights, Health Highlights, Environmental Software and Datafiles, and
Occupational Safety and Health Multimedia Training Programs, among others.
Each catalog is preceded by a short description of its contents.
Instructions and pointers to Adobe Reader software are available at the
site. The site also contains information about NTIS, as well as its
products, services, and ordering information.
http://www.fedworld.gov/ntis/ntishome.html
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Mystic-L mailing list
Mystic-L is a new group formed for the academic discussion of mysticism.
Topics might include the mysticism of Paul, the Middle English mystics,
the Greek mystery religions, the writings on Jewish mysticism of Gershom
Sholem, the work of Thomas Merton, etc. No devotional or polemical
discussions should appear on this list. The list has been created for the
academic discussion of mysticism by scholars of mysticism and those
interested in the scholarly study of mysticism.
Send email to:
listserv@uconnvm.uconn.edu
In the body of the message type:
Subscribe MYSTIC-L Your Name
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The Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times debuts its Internet edition April 8. It is slated
to include daily news and features, coverage of movies and entertainment,
a computers and technology section, a special section devoted to Southern
California sights and events, classified advertising, and chat boards.
The site will be free. A fee based site will also be available, with
access to Times' archives, as well as educational and research services.
http://www.latimes.com
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Kidsource Online
Kidsource Online is an extensive collection of information about raising
children from newborns to adolescents. A sampling of the publications
they've pulled together at the site includes "Children and Bilingualism"
from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; "Testing Your
Child's Hearing" by Carol Knightly, Pediatric Audiologist; and the
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) Provides Tips to Help
Parents and Kids Cope with Allergy Season. Resources are organized under
top-level categories of Newborns, Toddlers, Preschoolers, K-12,
Education, Health, Recreation, Forums, Organizations, and Guide to Best
Software, among others.
http://www.kidsource.com
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The Book List
The Un-official Internet Book List, a service of Kevin Savetz Publishing,
has been updated and expanded to include over 470 books about the
Internet, including its users, software, hardware, use, and abuse. The
List is browsable through a multi-level hierarchy which the user can
choose to sort by title, author, or publisher. Top level categories
include Internet introductions and guides, Site indices and guides,
Intermediate/advanced books, and Servers and system administration. The
user can also search the List by keyword to search all book descriptions.
Submissions to The Un-official Internet Book List are welcome, as are
user's comments about the books. The complete edition of the List is
available at the Web site, and an abridged text edition is available via
Usenet and e-mail. Because the full list is huge, the text edition
omits many subject areas to save bandwidth, although it is still very
long.
Send email to:
booklist-request@northcoast.com
In the subject line type:archive
In the body of the message type:
send booklist
The list is posted to numerous newsgroups, including
alt.internet.services and
news.answers
http://www.northcoast.com/savetz/booklist/
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Culture in Cyberspace
Culture in Cyberspace (CinC) is a free, weekly e-mail newsletter that
covers events and developments associated with the intersection of
culture and information technology. The newsletter's audience includes
people who are involved with cultural organizations and others who care about
how culture is represented in the emerging information age. Topics cover
the arts, education, journalism, history, and libraries. News and review
of WWW sites are included.
Send email to:
wlefurgy@radix.net
In the body of the message type:
SUBSCRIBE CinC firstname lastname e-mail address
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artnetweb
artnetweb "is the third phase of a process to establish an art colony in
cyberspace." It is a well-designed and interesting collection of
projects, readings, and exhibits mixed in with more standard sections
such as links to galleries and "what's new." The Press Links section
offers articles pulled from the international media with links to
relevant sites on the Web. artnetweb is currently hosting two exhibits by
the Guggenheim, and "The Brown MOO Bird," a Story by Aymon de Roussy de
Sales adapted for the Web. While parts of artnetweb are New York City
centric, there is reason for others to visit. By the way, the first two
phases of the art colony project were The Internet Reading Room, "a
storefront in SoHo where artists and others can learn how to get started
on the Internet and to meet those who are inventing a new medium," and a
local BBS in New York City.
http://artnetweb.com/
Less graphical site:
http://artnetweb.com/index2.html
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter, a film, television, and music trade magazine, has
established a Web site which offers the magazine's content plus a
selective, well-organized collection of links to industry resource sites.
The Web magazine is published 5 days a week and headlines and news briefs
are updated as needed during the course of the day.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com
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AIRSHIP-LIST
AIRSHIP-LIST is a mailing list for the discussion of topics pertaining to
lighter-than-air gas-filled airships: dirigibles, blimps, balloons. Both
contemporary and historical aspects are welcome. Subjects covered will
include Zeppelins, U.S. Navy airships, British dirigibles, and the like.
Send email to:
listproc@lists.Colorado.EDU
In the body of the message type:
subscribe airship-list yourfirstname yourlastname
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Netscape Atlas and Personal Workspace
Netscape offers a preview release of a future version of Netscape
Navigator, called Atlas. This Internet client software is available for
Windows 3.1, 95, NT, Macintosh, and Unix platforms. It offers features
such as a built in VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) viewer, built
in audio playback for various audio formats, a video plug-in for AVI
movies embedded in HTML documents, phone and chat support, Java support,
enhanced mail and news options, table cell background colors, and
enhanced frame navigation. Different features are available on different
platforms.
For more information:
http://home.mcom.com/comprod/products/navigator/atlas/index.html
Download the program:
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/navigator/atlas/pr1
FTP to ftp.netscape.com
cd pub/navigator/atlas/pr1
Netscape also offers Personal Workspace, a customized personal page that
can be set up through an interactive dialog with Netscape software.
Headlines, layouts, color combinations, and personalized links from
choices of news, reference, and search sites, among others are available.
Personal links can also be included. A notepad feature that allows
personal notes is available. Once the set up is completed, every time
"Personal Workspace" is entered the customized page appears. The page
can be altered or even reconstructed at any time.
http://home.mcom.com/custom/index.html
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The List (of Internet Service Providers worldwide)
The List, provided by Mecklermedia, is a browsable and searchable list of
over 1,900 worldwide ISP's (Internet Service Providers). Listings are
arranged by U.S. and Canadian nationwide providers, SprintNet Network,
state or province, a graphic map, or area code. International listings
are avaiable by country or country phone code. Each listing contains
name, phone number, email contacts, URL's, services provided, and fees.
The search engine searches providers by name or domain name.
http://www.thelist.com/
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Scout Toolkit Updates
Several annotations in the Scout Toolkit have been updated this week. In
the Browsers Section, updates have been made to the Netscape and
Internet Explorer annotations. A link to DosLynx, a line mode browser for
DOS platforms, has been added to the Lynx annotation.
http://rs.internic.net/scout/toolkit/browser.html
In the Search Tools section, Searchable Indexes, the Lycos, infoseek
guide, and Open Text annotations have been updated.
http://rs.internic.net/scout/toolkit/3b1.html
In the Search Tools section, Annotated Directories, the Point annotation
has been updated.
http://rs.internic.net/scout/toolkit/3b3.html
Finally, in the Specialized Tools directory, a link to White Pine's Enhanced
Cu-SeeMe has been added to the Cu-SeeMe annotation.
http://rs.internic.net/scout/toolkit/sp-tools.html
The Scout Toolkit:
http://rs.internic.net/scout/toolkit
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Copyright Susan Calcari, 1996. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of the Scout Report provided the copyright notice and this paragraph is preserved on all copies. The InterNIC provides information about the Internet to the US research and education community under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation: NCR-9218742. The Government has certain rights in this material.
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