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01 April 1999
HAPPY EASTER!
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/rabbit.htm
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07 April 1999
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- phillumenist
2. Website of the Day -- Ambergris Caye
3. Reading List -- the Village Voice
4. HotSite -- ClearStation
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1. A Word A Day
phillumenist (fuh-LOO-muh-nist) noun
One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.
[Phil (o)- + Latin lumen, light.]
"Clearly, we don't have room for a matchbox collection.
Not that `collection' is quite the word. Janet - let's be clear about
this - is no phillumenist."
Newnham, David, Lastword: Obsessions: Put those lights out, The Guardian
10 Oct 1998.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Website of the Day -- Ambergris Caye
[Editor's note: This fall, Denise and I are going to Belize
to bird with friends who have never been there. This will be
our 4th trip to the former British Honduras. Our journey ends
in Ambergris Caye, a laid-back, unpaved, barrier-island town
catering to divers and gamefishers. I did a small website about
the caye to entice our friends.]
Ambergris Caye
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/belize/sanpedro_air.htm
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3. Reading List -- the Village Voice
Mad on the Street
by edmund lee
Burning Issues, the Kosovo Crisis
What do you think is going on in
Kosovo?
Basically, there are two areas
that are going after each other. NATO
wants to back them off.
What level of involvement should we have?
To be honest with you, if I knew more about it, I could say, but I don't. It's scary because I used to be a poli-sci major.
What do you think is going on
in Kosovo?
We're interfering and trying to prevent Milosevic from ethnically cleansing the Albanians.
Read the whole column:
http://www.villagevoice.com/columns/9914/lee.shtml
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4. HotSite -- ClearStation
For market hounds thinking Wall Street, this
site looks at the market with more charts, graphs,
analysis, and other hoopla than anyone probably
needs.
ClearStation
http://www.clearstation.com/
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12 April 1999
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- piacular
2. Graphic of the Day -- Venice 1976
3. Reading List -- Cancer Risks in Utes
4. HotSites -- Propoganda
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1. A Word A Day
piacular (pie-AK-yuh-luhr) adjective
1. Making expiation or atonement for a sacrilege.
2. Requiring expiation; wicked or blameworthy.
[Latin piacularis, from piaculum, propitiatory sacrifice, from piare, to
appease, from pius, dutiful.]
"Dogs were also favourite piacular victims, as in the Lupercalia
(February 15)."
Foot Moore, George, History Of Religions: Chapter I, History of the World,
1 Jan 1992.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day -- Venice
Venice 1976
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/canaltown.htm
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3. Reading List -- Time Magazine
Smoking Gun For the Young
A cancer study shows that tobacco
poses more of a risk the earlier it's used
BY FREDERIC GOLDEN
Kids who smoke like to think that they're immortal--or at least
that if they stop in time, their lungs will heal. But a report in last
week's Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests early
smoking may trigger changes in DNA that put young smokers at
higher risk for cancer even if they later quit. Researchers studying
lung-cancer patients found that those with the worst genetic
damage were not those who smoked longest but those who
started youngest. What's more, the earlier they started, the more
severe the damage.
The findings are particularly alarming because they arrived the
same week as the results of a survey showing that American
children seem to be taking up cigarettes at ever younger ages.
The National Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education,
based in Atlanta, reported that 4% of fourth-graders, 7% of
fifth-graders and nearly 15% of sixth-graders had already
smoked. Add to this the more than 3 million teenagers with the
habit, and you have a major health problem.
Doctors used to blame the higher incidence of lung cancer
among those who started smoking in their youth on their
prolonged exposure to tobacco. But the new study, involving
143 subjects in the Boston area--some of whom lit up as early
as age seven--suggests a more insidious cause. Explains
epidemiologist John Wiencke of the University of California at
San Francisco: "Use of tobacco so early apparently permanently
impairs normal processes of cell renewal. Otherwise, their DNA
damage would long since have been repaired."
That's not to say kids who have the smoking habit shouldn't try
to quit as soon as they can. After all, there are plenty of other
tobacco-related diseases--for example, heart disease, stroke
and emphysema--that only get worse the longer you smoke.
END
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From 19 April 1999 issue of Time Magazine
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/toc/0,3392,0,00.html
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4. HotSites -- Propoganda
THEIR PROPOGANDA:
Serbian ministry of information site
http://www.serbia-info.com
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OUR PROPOGANDA:
US Government Site
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/kosovo_more.html
UNICEF-USA relief site
http://www.unicefusa.org/kosovo/
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21 April 1999
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- Rubicon
2. Graphic of the Day -- Pear
3. HotSites -- 1998 Webby Award Nominees
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1. A Word A Day
Rubicon (ROO-bi-kon) noun
A limit that when passed or exceeded permits of no return and typically
results in irrevocable commitment.
[Latin Rubico, Rubicon-, Rubicon, a short river of north-central Italy, the
crossing of which by Julius Caesar and his army in 49 B.C. began a civil war.]
"The age-old Labour debate between universal and means-tested social
benefits is being decisively resolved in favour of means-testing. Tony
Blair's government has indeed crossed the Rubicon."
The universal means test, The Economist, 6 Mar 1999.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day -- Pear
Pear - 1992
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/pear.htm
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3. HotSites -- 1998 Webby Award Nominees
Arts
ParkBench
http://www.cat.nyu.edu/parkbench/
Doors of Perception
http://www.doorsofperception.com
The multi-cultural Recycler
http://shoko.calarts.edu/~alex/recycler.html
Last Will and Testament
http://will.teleportacia.org
*jodi.org*
http://www.jodi.org
Commerce
*Amazon.com*
http://www.Amazon.com
CDNOW
http://www.cdnow.com
ebay
http://www.ebay.com
Gap Online
http://www.gap.com
The Tire Rack
http://www.tirerack.com
Community
iVillage.com
http://www.ivillage.com
MiningCo.com
http://www.miningco.com
*SeniorNet*
http://www.seniornet.org
Talk City
http://www.talkcity.com
Third Age
http://www.thirdage.com
Education
*Journey North*
http://www.learner.org/jnorth
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/
The Global Schoolhouse
http://www.gsn.org
The Math Forum
http://forum.swarthmore.edu
Web66
http://web66.coled.umn.edu
Fashion
Hint Magazine
http://www.hintmag.com
London Fashion Week
http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk
Lumière
http://www.lumiere.com
*PaperMag*
http://www.papermag.com
w.&l.t. online
http://www.walt.de
Film
Coming Attractions
http://corona.bc.ca/films
Dark Horizons
http://www.darkhorizons.com
Film.com
http://www.film.com
*Internet Movie Database*
http://www.imdb.com
Ireland Film and Television Net
http://www.iftn.ie/index.html
Finance
ClearStation
http://www.clearstation.com
E-Loan
http://www.eloan.com
Investor Home
http://www.investorhome.com
*The Motley Fool*
http://www.motleyfool.com
The Wall Street Journal
http://www.wsj.com
Games
Digital Addiction
http://www.digitaladdiction.com
*Gamers Central*
http://www.gamerscentral.net
Java on the Brain
http://www.tdb.uu.se/~karl/brain.html
ShockRave
http://www.shockrave.com
Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
http://mame.retrogames.com
Health
*InteliHealth*
http://www.intelihealth.com
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
http://www.mayohealth.org
mediconsult.com
http://www.mediconsult.com
onhealth
http://www.onhealth.com
thriveonline.com
http://www.thriveonline.com
Humor
Bezerk
http://www.bezerk.com
Red Meat
http://www.redmeat.com
Suck
http://www.suck.com
*The Onion*
http://www.theonion.com
The Simpleton
http://www.simpleton.com
Living
*BabyCenter*
http://www.babycenter.com
Epicurious
http://www.epicurious.com
Garden.com
http://www.garden.com
The Knot
http://www.theknot.com
The Yuckiest Site on The Internet
http://www.yucky.com
Music
bobdylan.com
http://www.bobdylan.com
mp3.com
http://www.mp3.com
*SonicNet*
http://www.sonicnet.com/
Spinner
http://www.spinner.com
The Ultimate Band List
http://www.ubl.com
News
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com
*CNN Interactive*
http://www.cnn.com
Rough & Tumble
http://www.rtumble.com/
BBC News Online
http://news.bbc.co.uk
Politics & Law
*California VoterFoundation*
http://www.calvoter.org
FindLaw
http://www.findlaw.com
Free! The Freedom Forum Online
http://www.freedomforum.org/
The Non-Partisan Center for Responsive Politics
http://www.crp.org
Web White & Blue
http://www.webwhiteblue.org
Print & Zines
Feed
http://www.feedmag.com
Nerve
http://www.nervemag.com
*Salon Magazine*
http://www.salonmagazine.com
Slate
http://www.slate.com
Smithsonian Magazine
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu
Radio
*Freespeech Internet Television*
http://www.freespeech.org
Imagineradio
http://www.imagineradio.com
Internet Underground Music Archive
http://www.iuma.com
SonicNet
http://www.sonicnet.com
Spinner
http://www.spinner.com
Science
*Exploratorium*
http://www.exploratorium.edu
NASA Space Science Laboratory
http://science.msfc.nasa.gov
Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com
The University of Arizona - The Biology Project
http://www.biology.arizona.edu
Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org
Sports
GolfWeb
http://www.golfweb.com
*SportsPages.com*
http://sportspages.com
Quokka Sports
http://www.quokka.com
SoccerNet
http://www.soccernet.com
The Sporting News
http://www.sportingnews.com
Technical Achievement
AltaVista Translation with Systran
http://babelfish.altavista.com
*Amazon.com*
http://www.amazon.com
FedEx
http://www.fedex.com
My Yahoo!
http://my.yahoo.com
Travel
*biztravel.com*
http://www.biztravel.com/
Expedia Travel
http://www.expedia.com
Lonely Planet On-line
http://www.lonelyplanet.com
TerraQuest
http://www.terraquest.com
Travelocity
http://www.travelocity.com/
TV
Comedy Central
http://www.comedycentral.com
Gist TV Listings
http://www.gist.com
*PBS Online*
http://www.pbs.org
TVGen
http://tvgen.com
UltimateTV
http://ultimatetv.com
Weird
Absurd.org
http://www.absurd.org
Disinformation
http://www.disinfo.com
*Superbad.com*
http://www.superbad.com
ITAG
http://www.trepan.com
Unamerican Activities
http://www.unamerican.com
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30 April 1999
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- redound
2. Graphic of the Day -- Sacre-Coeur
3. Quote of the Day -- Kinsolving
4. HotSites -- Miscellany
5. Reading List -- Gun Running
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1. A Word A Day
redound (ri-DOUND) verb intr.
1. To have an effect or consequence.
2. To return; recoil.
3. To contribute; accrue.
[Middle English redounden, to abound, from Old French redonder,
from Latin redundare, to overflow.]
"His (Harry Denton) main problem has been isolation, after all,
and anything that will bring him closer to his workforce will
redound to the company's benefit."
--Suzy Wetlaufer - HBR, After the Layoffs, What Next?, Harvard
Business Review, 1 Sep 1998.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day -- Sacre-Coeur
Sacre-Coeur - 1977
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/77sacrecoeur.htm
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3. Quote of the Day -- Kinsolving
Thirteen By Thirteen
Immeasurable distances describe love like light-
years crossing a café table, interstates joining
for instance Ohio to Arizona, foreign
letters, the Orient Express bringing the full moon
to pull brain waves into high tide, a turbulence
of longing. I ask where does one draw the line as this
expanse consumes me, its magnitude grown menacing,
my pulse becoming seismographic.The real point is
lost in arrows — classic as Cupid's, excessive as
Sebastian's — stabbing at all definition, each
piercing insistence that the heart cannot divide
its eager edges from ultimate aches. Love unites
chance and fate. So come now, be my triumph, my mistake.
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Susan Kinsolving
Dailies & Rushes
Grove Press
Copyright © 1999 by Susan Kinsolving.
All rights reserved.
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4. HotSites -- Miscellany
All the World's Newspapers
http://www.webwombat.com.au/intercom/newsprs/index.htm
Price's List of Lists
The Internet contains numerous lists of information.
Many of these lists present information in the form of
rankings of different people, organizations, companies,
etc. This collection is designed to be a clearinghouse
for these types of resources.
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/listof.htm
Direct Search (also from Gary Price)
This page is a growing compilation of DIRECT LINKS to
the search interfaces of resources that are not easily
searchable from general search tools such as Alta Vista,
Hotbot, and Infoseek. While general search tools are
essential for information retrieval of Internet
materials many users do not realize that large amounts
of information are not searchable via these tools.
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm
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5. Reading List -- Gun Running
Excerpt:
So, once elected, Bill Clinton did what he does best: He took
advantage of the opportunity. Rather than insert human-rights
concerns into the arms-sales equation, as did his Democratic
predecessor President Carter, Clinton decided to aggressively
continue the sales policies of President Bush, himself no slouch
when it came to selling U.S. arms.
Early on, Clinton required our diplomats to shill for arms merchants
to their host countries. The results were immediate: During Clinton's
first year in office, U.S. arms sales more than doubled. From 1993 to
1997, the U.S. government sold, approved, or gave away $190 billion
in weapons to virtually every nation on earth.
The arms industry, meanwhile, has greased the wheels. It filled the
Democratic Party coffers to the tune of nearly $2 million in the 1998
election cycle.
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From Mother Jones (http://www.mojones.com). Read the full article:
http://www.mojones.com/arms/
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