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UniScience News Net
UniScience News Net covers science research news in American universities.
It concentrates on 8 to 10 in-depth stories, and deliberately excludes
datelines. It attempts to give coverage to university research news that
is often excluded from mainstream media. According to the editors,
"UniSci is not a refereed journal of record, nor does it see itself in
competition with other pages or with other media for news 'beats.' It is
our job to put information about research at American universities in
perspective for a large and growing audience on the Internet." Articles
are written for a lay audience that is interested in scientific research
developments.
http://unisci.com/
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The CMS Molecular Biology Resource
The CMS Molecular Biology Resource at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"is a compendium of electronic and Internet-accessible tools and resources
for molecular biology, biotechnology, molecular evolution, biochemistry,
and biomolecular modeling." Included are pointers to protein biochemistry
databases, DNA/RNA structural databases, molecular evolution phylogeny
resources, bioinformatics resources, and biomolecular modeling image
resources, among others.
http://www.unl.edu/stc-95/ResTools/cmshp.html
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Centennial Celebration of F. Scott Fitzgerald
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Centennial Celebration Web site at the University
of South Carolina celebrates his writings, his life, and his relationships
with other writers of the 20th century. It serves as a commemoration of
the 100th anniversary of Fitzgerald's birth and offers a brief biography
and chronology, illustrations, and complete texts of some of his short
stories. Two especially interesting sections are "Fitzgerald Facts,"
providing brief background on various aspects of his life, and "Fitzgerald
Quotes," offering a diverse sampling of quotes by and about Fitzgerald.
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html
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National Archives and Records Administration - new
resources
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has made three
new resources available via the Web. The highlight of the NARA home page
is its Online Exhibit Hall, which contains an exhibit on poster art from
World War II, as well as facsimiles and information about the Declaration
of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Emancipation
Proclamation. The National Audiovisual Information Locator (NAIL) is a
searchable database holding thousands of descriptions of items in the
Still Picture, and Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branches of NARA.
Descriptions of over 2,000 still picture series, 73,000 film and video
titles, and 6,000 sound recording titles are available for searching,
and instructions for ordering copies are available. The NARA Government
Information Locator Service (GILS) is a searchable database of National
Archives information resources. The goal of the GILS service is to help
the user learn what kinds of information NARA creates about its holdings.
Information about GILS and searching tips are provided.
NARA Home Page:
http://www.nara.gov
NARA NAIL:
http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html
NARA GILS:
http://www.nara.gov/gils/gils.html
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The World Lecture Hall - teaching with the Web
The World Lecture Hall, produced and actively maintained by the University
of Texas at Austin, holds a large collection of university and college web
pages used to deliver course content. Over 80 subject areas
are covered, from accounting to zoology. Individual course pages include
links to syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars,
multimedia textbooks, and other related materials. The Lecture Hall gives
instructors a glimpse into the possibilities of delivering course material
via the Internet.
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/
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Heproc student involvement discussion list
Heproc-student-involvement is a list for the discussion of how student
involvement in higher education can be furthered. Topics focus on
administrative, practical, theoretical, and other aspects of student
involvement. Sample topics include: measurement of involvement; choice
of measures; how to create student involvement in specific areas of
higher education; and evolving relationships within the higher ed
institution.
To subscribe, send email to:
majordomo@world.std.com
in the body of the message type:
subscribe heproc-student-involvement
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PBS Citizens '96
PBS Citizens '96 Page is a web page derived from an election year
five-part television series. It focuses on "citizen involvement and
dialog", and provides a citizen's level view of the issues of the 1996
campaign. In fact, there is still time to send in questions that may be
asked of the candidates during the next Citizens '96 episode on February 9
- a live town meeting from Des Moines, Iowa. Sections include: Our Stories
- a selection of citizen profiles that accentuate the issues; Citizens
Coffee Shop - discussions held on a series of issues by focus groups in
various places throughout the U.S.; Family Forum - an interactive
discussion of issues; State of the Union by the Numbers, a statistical
thumbnail sketch (in 26 categories) of the U.S.; and Campaign Info - a
page that points to candidates' and party sites. Citizens '96 provides
much of the same information offered by other campaign sites, as well as
adding the "human dimension" to the race -- how it effects real people in
a selection of focus groups.
http://www.pbs.org/citizens96/
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Politics USA
Politics USA is one of the most comprehensive campaign sites available.
It is a service of two political news providers: the National Journal and
the American Political Network. In conjunction with the Lexis-Nexis
Online Retrieval Service, Politics USA provides up to the minute news on
the national campaign from various newspaper sources. The Issues '96
section lets the user retrieve the views of specific candidates on
specific issues. Timely poll data, clearly charted in line graph and map
format, is offered in the Poll Track section. The Campaign '96 page
points to information on all the major candidates and parties. Besides
the presidential race, information is also available on the 1996 Senate
races.
http://politicsusa.com/PoliticsUSA/issues/issues96.html.cgi
Poll Track:
http://politicsusa.com/PoliticsUSA/polltrack/polltrack.html.cgi
Campaign '96:
http://politicsusa.com/PoliticsUSA/campaign96/
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All Politics
All Politics, a collaborative effort of CNN (Cable News Network) and Time
Magazine, covers all aspects of the 1996 campaign and includes several
multimedia efforts which set this site apart from the rest. Besides news
and candidate information, it includes an issues matrix and a
"rate-o-matic" that compares your views to the candidates'. Campaignland
provides multimedia ads from present and past campaigns. An "election
monitor" offers the latest Time/CNN polls. In Focus features full text
Time Magazine articles on issues, and Intelligence features political
analysis from CNN. A cyber-primary is also included. See the Ad Archive
(under Table of Contents) for video-clips of old presidential TV ads.
(The video files are large, but if you have the time see the Johnson and
Humphrey ads.)
http://allpolitics.com/info/contents.shtml
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National Political Awareness Test -- Project Vote
Smart
The National Political Awareness Test (NPAT) at Project Vote Smart is a
quick, textual way to compare candidates views. The "test" was completed
by all major candidates except President Clinton, Pat Buchanan and Steve
Forbes. The candidates were asked for their views on over 25 issues from
abortion to welfare. Results can be obtained by candidate, or by issue so
that easy comparisons can be done on the candidates and the issues. Links
to information about the candidates are included with response
information.
http://www.vote-smart.org/campaign_96/presidential/all/all-npat.html
Project Vote Smart top page:
http://www.vote-smart.org/
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RealCom National Politics and Personalities
The RealCom National Politics and Personalities page offers links to
almost every political party imaginable, including; Communist, Democratic,
Green, Republican, Patriot, and Ross Perot's United We Stand. It also
points to political organizations such as the Federal News Service, the
NRA, and Anarchy Online, among others. While it points to many
organizations, pointers to individual candidates are at a lower level, and
sometimes difficult to find. It also contains a Presidential Cyberpoll.
http://www.rtis.com/nat/pol/
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The Washington Weekly
The Washington Weekly (an Internet newspaper) offers a Presidential
Primaries Page that is organized by candidate within each party. For most
candidates there is biographical information, voting record, list of
accomplishments or stands on key issues, and a connection to the
candidate's home page when available. This is a non-graphical but well
organized page that provides the user with quick access to voting
records, speeches and press releases, and Web pages of the candidates.
http://dolphin.gulf.net/Primaries.html
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Web Watch - political sites on specific topics
For a good selection of worthwhile Web sites on additional specific topics
related to politics and the '96 elections, see the Web Watch page on the
All Politics site.
http://allpolitics.com/intelligence/web/webwatch.shtml
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Netaholics Anonymous
The Netaholics Anonymous page will tell you if you're "...hooked on the
'Net", "...really, really hooked on the 'Net", or if it's "...time to seek
professional counseling". See how many of the dozens of characteristics
offered apply to you, and have a few chuckles in the process.
http://www.safari.net/~pam/netanon/
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Internet Explorer now available for the Macintosh and
Windows 3.1
Internet Explorer, the browser Microsoft released last August for Windows
95, is now available for Windows 3.1 and Macintosh. It supports cross
platform sound and animation, scrolling marquees, background sound, and
"client pull" that allows for virtual slide shows as one URL is rendered
after another without the viewer's intervention. Internet Explorer has
built-in Usenet news and e-mail clients.
Download Windows and Mac platforms from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie.htm
or from the Scout Toolkit:
http://rs.internic.net/scout/toolkit/explorer.html
After you download the browser, try the interactive sound and moving
marquee demo:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/iedemo.htm
or the client pull demo:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/iedemo_1.htm
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Inktomi search engine
The Inktomi search engine at the University of California at Berkeley
offers a large database of indexed Web documents and "scalable web server"
technology providing very fast search retrievals. Inktomi's simple search
interface uses "+" as its MUST operator and "-" as its NOT operator.
Relevance of the retrieval is ranked by how many of the words are used on
the retrieved page, and by the relative importance of those words,
although how this importance is determined is not revealed. Inktomi's
database upgrade on December 29 made 2.8 million documents available for
searching.
http://inktomi.berkeley.edu/
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