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Pilot Projects for a Human Genome Diversity
Project
http://www.nsf.gov/nsf/nsfpubs/nsf96112/nsf96112.htm
gopher://gopher.nsf.gov/
gopher to:
gopher.nsf.gov
select: search NSF publications
search: 96-112 AND (human ADJ genome)
or send email to Dr. Mark Weiss,
mweiss@nsf.gov or Dr. Lisa Brooks,
lbrooks@nsf.gov
The directorates for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences and for
Biological Sciences of the NSF (National Science Foundation) have recently
announced a special competition for Pilot Projects for a Human Genome
Diversity Project. These pilot projects are to be focused on two areas:
"improving DNA techniques, and clarifying cross-cultural ethical and legal
issues." Examples of pilot projects in the first area include: "improving
the ability to transform cells collected under sub-optimal field
conditions; improving long distance PCR-based amplification; converting
markers such as blood groups and RFLPs to PCR-based typing systems; and PCR
typing of existing cell lines to evaluate specific markers for use in a
full-scale HGDP, with criteria such as sufficient allelic variability and
suitability for use in less-sophisticated laboratories." Examples in the
second area include: "examining the use of ethical and legal protections in
field settings; testing approaches to gaining informed consent from
individuals and groups and ensuring confidentiality; investigating the
ethical and practical issues that arise in using archived samples; and
assessing and managing controversies and social risk arising in
cross-cultural research projects." Up to eight awards are anticipated.
Deadline for proposal submission is September 30, 1996.
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The Future of Networking Technologies for
Learning
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/
In 1995 the US Department of Education commissioned a series of white
papers on various issues related to networking technologies for education.
Those fourteen papers are now on the web, along with the proceedings of the
conference of authors in November 1995. The papers address such topics as
the funding of information infrastructure, the role of personal digital
assistants (PDAs) in the classroom, and virtual educational communities, as
well the concomitant curriculum reform that these advances will require.
The papers make use of hypertext links to provide immediate access to data,
other reports, relevant legislation, and related web resources. Abstracts
of the papers are available, as well as information about the authors.
Visitors to the site can leave feedback through a web form, and can read
the feedback left by others.
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History Buff's Home Page
http://www.serve.com/ephemera/historybuff.html
This site, devoted to the history of newspapers in the United States and to
US history in general, offers several notable American history resources.
Essays by members of the Newspaper Collectors Society of America, with
which this site is affiliated, cover a range of topics relating to the
history of newspaper journalism. The essay archive is searchable. Resources
of interest to collectors include a primer on collecting historic
newspapers, a price guide for old and historic newspapers, and a list of
newspapers most often reprinted. For those with other interests in history,
there is an index of history-related web sites, organized by category.
About half of the entries in the index include a brief statement of what
kind of information the user is likely to find on a particular site. As a
meta-index of historical resources this should prove useful to historians
interested in many eras and issues.
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InterActive Teacher Online
http://www.mlab.com/itoreg/
The online version of Interactive Teacher contains the full text of
each issue, as well as a searchable index. The bimonthly magazine has
features and departments on topics of interest to K-12 teachers. In
addition to feature articles on various topics, each issue contains
Teacher's Aid (lesson plans and ideas), Review Session (recaps of current
events in public education), and TECHniques (information on technology in
the classroom). Features on the web site include Study Hall, which offers
links to educational resources on the Internet, including lesson plan
archives. Still under development is the Teachers Lounge, which will
provide an informal chat area for teachers.
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H-Arete
H-Arete is a moderated daily Internet discussion network focused on the
study of sport literature as an academic discipline. H-Arete will operate
under the auspices of the Sport Literature Association, located at East
Tennessee State University. H-Arete will post information about the
association, conferences, and the journal AETHLON. H-Arete is free and open
to everyone with a mature and abiding interest in sport literature.
Scholars, writers, teachers, and librarians are particularly invited to
join. It is edited by Kevin Brooks of Iowa State University, Don Morrow of
the University of Western Ontario, and Joyce Duncan, of East Tennessee
State University. All messages on H-Arete are approved by the editors, in
order to filter out "flames," "spams" and inappropriate posts.
To subscribe send email to:
listserv@h-net.msu.edu
In the body of the message type:
sub h-arete firstname lastname, institution
Note that the comma between lastname and institution is necessary.
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NAACP Online
http://www.naacp.org/
The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), the
oldest civil rights organization in the United States, has recently
established a web site. It contains issue alerts (including a series of
alerts on church fires in the Southern U.S.), a President's Corner, with a
biography, vision statement, press releases, speeches, and columns by
President Kweisi Mfume, "About the NAACP," which provides information about
the organization's board of directors and its history, and an interactive
unit location finder to help you find the NAACP office nearest to you. At
present information in the unit finder contains the name of the president
of the local chapter and a hypertext link to that chapter's home page if
available.
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Investor's Business Daily
http://ibd.ensemble.com/
Today's IBD:
http://ibd.ensemble.com:80/web_edition/today/
Investor's Business Daily, the Los Angeles-based "newspaper for important
decision makers," has scrapped its proprietary IBDee (Investor's Business
Daily Electronic Edition) in favor of a web site that is (at present, after
registration) freely available. Most of the story content of the daily
paper is available, in such categories as "Front Page," "Executive
Update,""Computers & Tech, "The New America," "The Economy," and "The
Markets." In addition, volume tables are provided for NYSE, NASDAQ, and
AMEX which "list active issues by comparing yesterday's trading volume to
the stock's trailing 50 days average trading volume." A searchable archive
is available. This is a beta version of the site, and the main drawback to
it is that there is no overall site index, which would allow for easier
browsing of content. However, for serious investors, this is a serious
site.
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Yell--U.K. site directory and index
http://www.yell.co.uk/yell/web.html
The U.K. Yellow Web (Yell) is a definitive combination directory and
searchable index for sites in the United Kingdom. Its directory contains
thousands of annotated sites in over 15 subject categories ranging from
Arts and Entertainment to Travel and Tourism. "Hot on the Net" contains a
weekly selection of new listings (alphabetical and by directory
classification), as well as a Yell Top Ten listing of the best new sites
each month. "Company A-Z" contains an unannotated listing of business and
commercial sites. The search page contains a concise FAQ on searching. Yell
also contains a searchable film finder that provides information on where
features are playing in any of thirteen regions of the United Kingdom.
Selected film summaries are available, as are pointers to other movie
sites. As with all large Internet directories and indexes, quality level of
the sites varies, but this an excellent place to start when searching for
U.K.-based sites.
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WebOvision
http://www.webovision.com/cgibin/var/media/sd/index.html
Finding the web sites of traditional media outlets is easier with
WebOvision, which provides links to television, radio, and newspaper sites
around the world. Also included are news sources, film and theater links,
and professional resources for journalists. The media sources are arranged
by country and then by state or province, if applicable. A search engine
allows keyword searching of the entire site; entering a city name, for
example, will return links to web sites for print, television and radio
outlets in that city. The news sources page provides links to international
news agencies as well as press release databases.
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WELLPET-L
WELLPET-L is an unmoderated list, specifically for the discussion of
holistic or natural pet care and is open to all those with a sincere
interest in alternative methods of animal care. Topics could include the
use and application natural diets and nutrition, homeopathic remedies, the
use of vitamin and food supplements, herbal medicine, flower remedies,
massage therapies and acupuncture. Anti-holistic posts are not welcome.
To subscribe send email to:
majordomo@cia.com.au
In the body of the message type:
subscribe wellpet-l
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Opera Internet Browser
http://opera.nta.no/opera/
Opera Software, a Norwegian company, has made its Internet browser, Opera,
available for evaluation. It is Windows 3.X based software (though it also
runs on Windows 95 and OS/2 with Windows support), and will run with as
little as a 386SX PC (8 megabytes of RAM recommended). One of its
significant features is the ability to fetch multiple documents and images
at the same time, allowing the user to tile or cascade the documents. It
also contains a full keyboard interface, and supports the complete HTML 2.0
specification and many HTML 3.2 extensions. The download size of the
(English) file is less than 900 Kilobytes, and the browser is available in
Norwegian and Swedish as well. Pricing information is available at the
site.
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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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