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NSF Recognition Awards for the Integration of Research
and Education
NSF Recognition Awards for the Integration of Research and Education: A
new National Science Foundation program represents one aspect of the
Foundation's commitment to the core strategy of integrating research and
education, as described in the strategic plan, "NSF in a Changing World."
The program will make awards that recognize up to ten research-intensive
universities that have shown leadership, innovation, and achievement in
their efforts to integrate research and education (specifically college
freshmen through Ph.D.) throughout their organizations. Preliminary
applications are required and must be received by July 5, 1996. Full
information on the Recognition Awards can be found on the NSF Recognition
Awards Web page.
http://www.nsf.gov/od/osti/raire/recintro.htm
The solicitation (NSF Publication 96-87) is available in HTML, Microsoft
Word, or ASCII format.
http://www.nsf.gov/od/osti/raire/rectoc.htm
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The New England Journal of Medicine
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.nejm.org/
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Forbes ASAP -- George Gilder -- _Telecosm_ archive
A Highlight of the new "Forbes" magazine Web site is the full-text archive
from George Gilder's book, _Telecosm_. In this book in progress, 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://www.forbes.com/asap/gilder/telecosm.htm
Forbes home page:
http://www.forbes.com
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Diderot and d'Alembert's _Encyclopedie_ -- Volume
I
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 retreival 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/
ARTFL Home Page:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/
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Teachers helping Teachers
Teachers helping Teachers, provided by a California middle school
instructor, provides ideas and tips in the form of lesson plans and
classroom activities. The content has been submitted by teachers for
teachers. The site is designed to be an aid to teachers in K through 12,
and provides ideas for classroom management, language arts, math, science,
social studies, the arts, and special education. In addition, there is a
topic of the week, and a selected list of other educational pointers in
various subjects.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/
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The Cato Institute
The Cato Institute is a think tank based on "limited government, free
markets, individual liberty, and peace." It's 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.
http://www.cato.org/
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Cognitive Science mailing list
COGSCI is an open, unmoderated discussion list about Cognitive Science.
Topics including artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy,
connectionism, psychology, conferences, lectures, and
publications.
To subscribe send email to:
LISTSERV@NIC.SURFNET.NL
In the body of the message type:
SUB COGSCI yourfirstname yourlastname
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Rainforest Action Network
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://www.ran.org/
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Congressional Quarterly -- American Voter '96 On the
Job
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://voter96.cqalert.com/cq_job.htm
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Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource
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, writers 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.
http://www.hway.net/zuzu/index.htm
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Russian Life magazine
Russian Information Services, the publisher of "Russian Life" magazine,
has established a Web site for the 40-year-old magazine of Russian
culture, history, travel and business. The magazine's site offers samples
of cover stories and departments: Practical Traveler, Survival Russian,
Travel Journal, and Russian Cuisine. Within two weeks the site will add an
events database which users can add information to and/or use to search
for Russia-related events in their area or sphere of interest. Also, the
editors have compiled a collection of Top Ten Russian Web Site Picks.
Full-text searching by keyword is available, which also encompasses an
on-line catalog -- Access Russia & Central Europe -- which contains over
200 books, maps and products relating to travel and doing business in the
region. The site resides on the Friends & Partners server at the
University of Tennessee, a site for persons with an interest in travel to
or business in Russia.
http://www.friends-partners.org/rispubs/rl-top.html
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The Tony Awards
The 50th Annual Tony Awards ceremony will take place June 2, 1996. These
awards are given to "recognize a person, or a production, or those in the
realm of theatre that have achieved a degree of excellence in their
fields." The Tony awards Web site is divided into four parts: 96 Awards,
highlighted by a complete list of nominees in all categories; A Look Back,
with a browsable and searchable archive of all award winners from
1947-1995, and a picture gallery that contains photos, posters, costume
designs, or set designs down through the years; Spotlight, which has a
long story on Antoinette Perry, for whom the awards were named; and Center
Stage, which includes a general chat room, as well as a back stage area
where you can chat with the stars. This is a well done, exhaustive,
graphically beautiful site for those who follow the awards.
http://www.tonys.org/index.html
Less graphical entrance:
http://www.tonys.org/siteindex.html
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The Jazz Photography of Ray Avery
The Jazz Photography Of Ray Avery Web site at the University of California
- Irvine offers a multimedia collection of information about jazz in the
U.S. during the middle of this century. There is a short introduction,
Jazz: The 1950s - Records & Photography, which traces the growing
popularity of jazz through magazine articles from this period and provides
some historical anchors to the jazz scene of the mid 1950s. A brief
biography of Ray Avery provides some background information on his career.
A separate catalogue of publications and exhibitions lists Ray's
photography credits. The initial exhibit of photographs focuses on his
early work from the 1950s. The exhibition is grouped into four major
areas: The Lighthouse All Stars - Hermosa Beach & Laguna Beach;
Nightclubs, Festivals & Concerts; Recording Sessions - Los Angeles; and
Stars of Jazz - TV Series. Also offered is a collection of books and CDs
that complement this period and feature releases of music recorded at the
time and place that many of the photographs were taken.
http://www.book.uci.edu/Jazz/jazz.html
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Fox Movietone News Online
Internauts with fast connections will want to peruse the Fox Movietone
News Online site. At the heart of the site are short film clips (available
for Windows and Macintosh platforms) from old Movietone newsreels. Each
week there are clips from historic events. Although the clips are short,
they convey a sense of what newsreel coverage was all about in a time
before television brought news events to us with astonishing speed.
http://www.iguide.com/movies/movitone/week.htm
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Yahoo enhancements
Yahoo has added two enhancements to its popular Internet directory
service. It's People Search allows you to find telephone numbers and
email addresses by entering a search form. The telephone directory is
supplied by Database America (the provider of the Switchboard.com
database), and the email interface directly queries Four11.com. Yahoo's
map service (maps provided by Etak, Inc.) allows you to enter an address,
city, state, and zip code, the intersection of two streets, a street name,
or a city name, and get a map of your query in return. Maps can be zoomed
in or out, or moved in any direction.
Yahoo People Search:
http://www.yahoo.com/search/people/
Yahoo Maps:
http://maps.yahoo.com/yahoo/
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Advanced CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
Discussion List
ADV-CGI is a heavily moderated discussion list provided by the Academic
Computing Center at New York University. The ADV-CGI list is for the
discussion of all applications of the Common Gateway Interface (CGI).
Other advanced Web programming topics may also be discussed. This list is
not, however, for the discussion of Java or JavaScript, though it may
expand to include such topics in the future.
To subscribe send email to:
listproc@lists.nyu.edu
In the body of the message type:
subscribe ADV-CGI Firstname Lastname
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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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