Notable Internet Resources 2001

This is the archive of the Notable Internet Resources columns from 2001. Notable Internet Resources is produced by the Langdell reference department as a service to the Harvard Law School community. The archive may be browsed by date or by topic.

Notable Internet Resources provides annotated links to resources on a topic of interest to the Harvard Law School community. Once published, no effort is made to ensure the links remain current or accurate. This archive is provided for informational purposes only. Please contact the Langdell reference desk, (617) 495-4516, located just off the reading room on the fourth floor of Langdell Hall with any questions.

Notable Internet Resources Listed by Date:

January 3, 8, 22, 29		May 7, 16, 25		September 4, 17, 24
February 5, 12, 26		June 11, 18, 25		October 9, 15, 22
March 5, 12, 19, 26		July 2, 9, 23		November 12
April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30		August 1, 6, 20		December 14

Notable Internet Resources Listed by Topic:

The 2000 Presidential Election Revisited: Reports and Archives (September 24)
Air Safety (May 7)
Bankruptcy (July 23)
CCH Research NetWork (January 29)
Cancer (October 15)
Companies Being Regulated or in Litigation (May 16)
Contacts for Law Reviews and Legal Publishers (April 9)
Controlled Substances (September 4)
Criminal Justice Statistics (January 22)
Criminal Records and Criminal Information on the Internet (July 9)
Cybercrime and Internet Fraud (August 20)
Directories of Nonprofits, Think Tanks, and Scholarly Societies (March 5)
Directories of Persons and Businesses (August 6)
Finding Pre-1980 Legal and Other Academic Journal Articles (April 16)
Finding a Doctor, or Checking Up on One (April 23)
Fuel Economy, Fuel Prices, & Alternative Fuels (July 2)
Income Tax Filing Options (February 5)
Information on Politicians--Dead, Fired, Lobbied, or Otherwise (February 12)
Labor and Employment (December 14)
Law School Rankings (October 22)
Legal Ethics (January 3)
Legal Forms on the Web (March 19)
Lists of Legal Conferences, Meetings, and Continuing Legal Education Events (May 25)
Money Matters (January 8)
Medicare Information Online (June 18)
Medical Records Privacy (August 1)
News Searching and Browsing on the Web (June 25)
Reference Desks on the Web (March 26)
Sites Related to the Terrorist Attack (September 17)
Starting Point for Legal Research on the Web (June 11)
The State of Education in the U.S. (April 30)
Think Tanks: Research & Home Pages (October 9)
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse February 26)
U.S. Anti-Terrorism Legislation (November 12)
U.S. Government Portals (April 2)
Wireless for Lawyers (March 12)

Notable Internet Resources 2001 Archive:

January 3: Legal Ethics

ABA Center for Professional Responsibility
http://www.abanet.org/cpr/home.html: A starting point for ABA reports and documents relating to professional responsibility, this site aims to cover legal ethics, professionalism, professional regulation, professional discipline, and client protection. Unfortunately some of the publications are only available through ordering and not made freely available at the site. 

American Legal Ethics Library from Cornell's LII
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/:  The Legal Information Institute, through a grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, provides the full text of rules on the professional conduct of lawyers and judges for many states. Browse by jurisdiction or topic to find relevant code provisions. Once within a topic or a code, keyword searching is available. Topics include the client-lawyer relationship, transactions with persons other than clients, law firms and associations, etc. For each topic, jurisdictions which follow ABA model codes or rules are listed. The text of the ABA model rules are provided for comparison. In addition to codes, summaries of the law governing lawyers are available for twelve states.

APRL: Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers
http://www.aprl.net/:  APRL is a national organization of lawyers specializing in professional responsibility and legal ethics. APRL's site provides information on recent developments in the admission to practice law, professional ethics, disciplinary standards and procedures, and professional liability. Click on "Research by State or Topic" to explore general or state-specific resources on ethics rules/codes, bar organizations, bar admissions, legal malpractice, and ethics opinions. 

Brochure on the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers 
http://www.ali.org/ali/A252.htm: The ALI's most recently completed Restatement is introduced and promoted in this Web brochure. The scope of the work is described in several paragraphs; each chapter in a few sentences. Chapter, topics, and titles are listed in outline format. Ordering information is available. For those interested, the following article briefly outlines some of the major differences between the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers and the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZN3741KFC

LegalEthics.com 
http://legalethics.com/ethics.law: Offered by a consulting company which advises clients on the use of the Internet in the practice of law, this site's stated focus is legal ethical issues raised by the Internet. It provides, however, links to most of the legal ethics resources available on the Web including federal and state ethics rules, judicial codes of conduct, and ABA reports. Use pull-down menus to find state ethics opinions, advertising rules, confidentiality rules, and more. For research not specific to a state, use the pull-down menus on the top right; select one of ten categories, and then select an associated topic to display resources for that topic.

January 8: Money Matters

Cost of Living Calculator 
http://www.datamasters.com/cgi-bin/col.pl: Use this two-step "calculator" to compare the cost of living in different cities. Enter an annual salary in one of 400 U.S. cities or metro areas to find out what salary would give you equivalent buying power in another; i.e. $100,000 in Boston equals about $73,700 in Houston. The cost-of-living figures are based on data from the Tax Foundation, U.S. Commerce Department, and the American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association.

What is a dollar worth? from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/economy/calc/cpihome.html: Compare the cost of living over time by calculating what an amount "back then" would equal now; i.e., what cost $5 in 1920 would cost $43 today.  The calculator uses the Consumer Price Index, the average level of prices of the goods and services typically consumed by an urban U.S. family, to calculate the inflation on the price of goods from 1913 to the present. The CPI data is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

How Much Is That? 
http://www.eh.net/hmit/:  Similar to the above resource, this site allows you to calculate the purchasing power of money over time. However, this site covers the U.S. dollar from 1720 to present, and the British pound from 1660 to present. Annual inflation rates in the U.S. (1720-) and Great Britain (1660-) are also provided as are 3 to 6 month U.S. commercial paper rates (1831 to 1997) and the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the British pound (1791-1999). 

BigCharts Historical Stock Quotes
http://www.bigcharts.com/historical:  Determine the historical value of a stock from approximately 1985 to present. BigCharts provides exact and split-adjusted stock price information and split adjustment factors. Results include closing price, open, high, low and trading volume for the date requested. You can also create a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc. chart of activity for a stock by using the "interactive charting" feature.

January 22: Criminal Justice Statistics

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1999
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/:  Published annually by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, this famous reference tool contains the most commonly sought criminal justice statistics available from federal and state justice departments, government affiliated research centers, and private organizations. Published in its entirety here, it is possible to access tables using keyword searches or by browsing the table of contents, the subject index, or the table and figure list.

Criminal Statistics England and Wales 1999
http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm50/5001/5001.htm: Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State, this report presents compiled criminal statistics collected by the 43 police forces in England and Wales. Browse the list of figures and tables or the detailed table of contents to find a relevant table. Unfortunately, keyword searching is not available. Subjects covered include formal police cautions, reprimands or warnings, criminal court proceedings, sentencing, and bail.

Statistics from the United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network http://www.uncjin.org/Statistics/statistics.html: The U.N. Crime and Justice Information Network (UNCJIN), created by the U.N. Centre for International Crime Prevention, links to many to substantive criminal justice statistics documents including U.N. surveys on crime trends and the operations of criminal justice systems. Documents from the Commissions on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Congresses on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, and the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime are also available.

Organized Crime: A Crime Statistics Site
http://crime.org: Created by Regina Schekall, this site is an excellent starting point in accessing criminal justice Web sites. Don't let the title fool you, "organized crime" is merely a play on words. Browse the link guide or search it by keyword.

January 29: CCH Research NetWork

CCH has developed an impressive and easy to use Web database system. Through a series of "Research NetWorks," CCH provides access to electronic versions of its hundreds of publications including multi-volume looseleafs as well as treatises and periodicals. Browsing, searching, navigating among results, and printing or downloading is straightforward. The Library has subscribed to three components of the CCH Research NetWork. The topics covered by each are described below. Only some of this content is available on Lexis or Westlaw.

Our subscription limits access to the Harvard Law School community and allows up to 35 simultaneous users. Access is controlled by IP address (the physical location of the Intranet connection), not by password. Thus, you must be connected to the Internet via a Harvard Law School campus network computer, an HLS dialup account, or a data jack on the HLS campus when you access the CCH Research NetWork. Therefore researchers connecting to the Internet through private Internet service providers, such as AOL, EarthLink, MSN, AT&T, etc., will not be able to connect to this resource.

The CCH Research NetWork offers forms you can fill out online and print. When you first use these "interactive forms," you will receive instructions for downloading and installing any required software.

CCH Business & Finance Research NetWork
http://business.cch.com/ipNetWork: Provides access to CCH products covering federal and state securities; banking including credit regulation and mortgage compliance; capital changes; trade regulation; government contracts; federal and state telecommunications; information technology; federal energy guidelines; transportation; and products liability and safety law products.

CCH Health & Human Resources Research NetWork
http://health.cch.com/ipNetWork: Provides access to CCH products covering such topics as: health law, including Medicare and Medicaid, healthcare compliance, state Medicaid laws and regulations, state health care laws and regulations, and managed care; food and drug law; human resources management, including personnel practices, compensation, equal employment opportunity, employment relations, and OSHA compliance; payroll management including social security and unemployment; pensions and benefits law; employment law including employment practices, disabilities management, labor relations, wages and hours, labor arbitration, EEOC compliance, and state employment law; and safety, OSHA, and workers compensation law.

CCH Tax Research NetWork
http://tax.cch.com/ipNetWork: Provides access to CCH products covering federal, state and international tax law.

CCH Research NetWork Guide
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/research/guides/eresources/cch_research_network.php: Offered by the Library, this guide is a concise introduction to CCH Research NetWork content and features. You can access any of the above Research NetWorks from links in this guide. While using the CCH Research NetWork itself, detailed, context sensitive help is available by clicking the blue 'Help' button.

Telephone support is available from CCH at the following numbers:
Technical Support: (800) 835-0105
Business and Finance Product Support: (800) 449-6435
Health and Human Resources Product Support: (800) 449-9525
Tax Product Support: (800) 449-8114
Email support from CCH is available at: http://support.cch.com/csinq

You may also contact Michael Jimenez at 496-2124 or jimenez@law.harvard.edu, with any questions.

February 5: Income Tax Filing Options

WebFile from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue
http://www.dor.state.ma.us/options/webfile/webfiletweener.htm: The Mass. Dept. of Revenue now allows you to file your return over the Web. Your Web browser must have 128-bit encryption, which most current browsers have. To use WebFile, you will need the PIN (personal identification number) from your Massachusetts Income Tax booklet, or know the amount of your refund or balance payable last year. 

Telefile from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue
http://www.dor.state.ma.us/options/telefile.htm: For the past few years, the Mass. Dept. of Revenue has allowed Massachusetts resident taxpayers to file their return by touch-tone phone. This page provides the necessary information and the Telefile worksheet.

U.S. Federal Tax Fill-in Forms
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/forms_pubs/fillin.html: The IRS now offers tax forms in pdf format which you can fill in online, print out and mail. You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader 3.0 on your machine; this is a free resource. This service does not do any computations for you, it merely produces a better looking return for your records and for filing. 

IRS e-file
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/elec_svs/efile-ind.html: You can file your federal income tax return over the Web. This page provides the necessary information. Most taxpayers using this option will still have to mail in a paper signature document. However, if you use one of the commercially available tax software packages that supports self-selecting a PIN, you can file your return completely over the Web. See "Q&As about the Self-Select PIN for IRS e-file feature" at the top of the page.

Tax Form Service from the CCH Tax Research Network 
http://tax.cch.com/ipnetwork: The CCH Tax Research Network, subscribed to by the Library for the Law School community, allows you to fill in federal and state tax forms online. It performs the necessary calculations as you enter amounts.  You must install the CCH Perform Plus II software on your computer to access the forms. To do so, once you connect to the CCH Tax Research Network, click the Perform Plus II tab and then the Download Install Software link. If you have trouble downloading the software, CCH Technical Support is available at (800) 835-0105.

United States Tax Forms & Research
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/guides/united_states/specialized/tax_forms.php: Michael Jimenez, Reference Librarian, has kindly put together this excellent guide to tax forms. The most heavily used federal forms and instructions have been downloaded to our local server so that you don't have to access the IRS site during the height of tax season. Links to state tax forms, tax professional sites, and primary tax law sources are also provided.

February 12: Information on Politicians--Dead, Fired, Lobbied, or Otherwise

Political Graveyard: A Database of History, Politics, and Cemeteries
http://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html: This site presents basic facts about 14,000 dead politicians and judges; years of birth and death, public offices held, and place of burial. A favorite at the reference desk, this resource helps identify first and middle names, and distinguishes persons of the same name. Lists politicians by race, gender, and political or religious affiliations as well, such as politicians who were foreign born, American-Indian, or Seventh Day Adventist. Also offers fun lists such as presidents killed by animals, politicians who died youngest, etc. 

Politician Directories from Carroll Publishing:
The following three databases are offered by Carroll Publishing, a
publisher of federal, state, county, and municipal directories. Carroll editors monitor about 200 sources each day for announcements of changes in U.S. government and defense industry personnel and make this information available for free. Search by name or browse by category.

Who's Out? 
http://www.carrollpub.com/whosout/outsearch.asp: Covers politicians who have resigned, who have died, or whose positions have been terminated. Includes reason for termination, resignation, or death with date thereof, position title, and the text of the news item from which the information was derived.

Who's Pending? 
http://www.carrollpub.com/whospend/whospendstart.asp: Covers politicians whose approval for appointment is pending, including Presidential appointees for court, executive, or defense positions.  Provides brief biographical information, date of appointment, and when available, Senate confirmation information.

Who's New? 
http://www.carrollpub.com/whosnew/whosnewstart.asp: Covers politicians who are newly posted including position title, location, and the date the post was filled.

Follow the Money from the National Institute on Money in State Politics
http://www.followthemoney.org/: This sophisticated Web database provides information about campaign contributions and campaign spending for state legislative and gubernatorial campaigns. Search for information about a specific candidate or contributor, or browse by race or ballot measure. Economic interest codes are tagged to contributions so charts showing contributions by sector, i.e., agriculture, health, defense, transportation, etc., are available.

Mayoral Elections Database from the U.S. Conference of Mayors
http://www.usmayors.org/uscm/elections/99elections.asp: Provides 1999 and 2000 mayoral election results nationwide. Search by name, state, or party. Some results provide phone number, email address, Web page URL, population of city, next election date, and photo. 

Politicians Of The World Address Directory
http://www.trytel.com/~aberdeen/: Kindly created and maintained by an individual, this site provides the mailing addresses for virtually every nation's leaders and provincial governors. It always provides postal, and sometimes provides phone, fax, email, and Web page information. For lesser posts, it does not always give the name of the individual holding office. Lists of email addresses for Heads of State and addresses for Foreign Affairs Ministries worldwide are also available.

February 26: Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
http://trac.syr.edu: The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a research center associated with Syracuse University whose primary aim is to gather and distribute data about the enforcement activities of federal agencies. The majority of the data is gathered through FOIA requests. Established in 1989, TRAC has been funded by many foundations and through research grants. A great deal of the research is available for free; some is available only through a subscription. The subscription services, TRACFED and FEDPROBE, cover criminal, civil, and administrative federal enforcement activities in the context of staffing, federal funding, and the unique characteristics of counties, federal districts, and states.

The free services cover the enforcement activities and staffing patterns of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the U.S. Customs Service. Selected free TRAC Web sites are described below.

TRAC FBI
http://trac.syr.edu/tracfbi/index.html: Covers FBI trends and developments over the last ten years in the number of intelligence officers, domestic surveillance, and drug enforcement. Short statistical reports cover the FBI's role in the "Drug War," performance indicators, (i.e. staffing versus convictions), regional variations, etc. There are also statistical tables by FBI district with information on the odds of criminal conviction, lead charge for conviction, percent of arrested prosecuted, lengths of prison sentences, and more. Links are provided to compare the figures across years. Sources of data are included.

TRAC INS
http://trac.syr.edu/tracins/index.html: Covers new developments in the enforcement activities of the Immigration and Naturalization Service including national trends of dramatic increases in criminal convictions, large staffing increases, prosecution time decreases, and increases in numbers of aliens expelled. District enforcement is detailed with graphs and charts on odds of criminal conviction, odds of criminal referral, percent prosecuted, length of time to prosecute, percent guilty, lengths of prison sentences, etc. The "New Findings" section offers some very interesting facts, such as in 1998 the INS became second among all agencies in its share of total federal convictions, outranking the DEA, Customs, ATF and IRS. The only agency with slightly more federal convictions was the FBI.

TRAC IRS
http://trac.syr.edu/tracins/index.html: Covers trends over the past 5-10 years in tax audits, collections, criminal enforcement, and staffing of the IRS. Provides maps, ranking tables, and graphs about the United States as a whole, each of the 33 IRS administrative districts, and 90 federal judicial districts. Topics include odds of civil district audits, odds of service center audits, odds of criminal conviction, lead charge for conviction, lengths of prison sentences, etc. Interestingly, in the "New Findings" section of the site, TRAC reports that low income taxpayers now have a greater chance of being audited than higher income taxpayers; the proportion of individual taxpayers who faced any kind of audit dropped to its lowest rate in modern history, just under one percent (0.90%); and corporations also faced a lower audit rate in 1999 with a district audit rate of only 1.51%.

GuideStar: A Nonprofit Directory
http://www.guidestar.org/index.html
This database contains information about all U.S. nonprofit organizations with IRS-registered 501(c)(3) status. Search by keyword, or use a fill in template with fields for city, category, non-profit type, and income range. Result entries include name, location, contact information, names of leaders and board members, EIN, financial information, missions and programs, and a pdf copy of the nonprofit's form 990.

March 5: Directories of Nonprofits, Think Tanks, and Scholarly Societies

Association Central
http://www.associationcentral.com: Search for associations by keyword, name, acronym, or city, or browse by subject. For each association, the name, address, contact information, a brief description, and a link to the association's Web site is provided.

Think Tank World Directory, from the National Institute for Research Advancement
http://www.nira.go.jp/ice/tt-info/nwdtt99: This resource lists think tanks (policy research centers) in 72 countries and regions. A selective listing, it only contains about 300 entries. Browse the list by country, acronym, or geographic area. Unfortunately, there is no search feature. Entries contain address, contact information, URL, founding year, description, areas of research, geographic focus, funding sources, number of staff, names of executive officers, and publications.

Scholarly Societies Project
http://www.scholarly-societies.org: This attractive Web site serves as a directory and information source for over 2000 scholarly societies, professional organizations, international unions, royal societies, and federations. You can browse lists by subject, or search by name or acronym. The site also offers meetings and conferences announcements, standards and specifications, links to society newsletters, and more.

March 12: Wireless for Lawyers

Westlaw Wireless
http://www.westlaw.com/wireless: If you have wireless internet access on your Palm, PocketPC, other personal digital assistant, pager, Blackberry Device, or e-book reader, you can now use it to access Westlaw case headnotes and synopses using the ' Find' command, KeyCite results for cases, and West's directory of attorneys. You can also e-mail full cases from your wireless device to a regular email account. Searchable case law databases are supposedly coming soon. This page provides all necessary details, including a complete list of Westlaw wireless compatible devices and browsers. 

Lexis Wireless
http://www.lexis.com/wireless: Lexis wireless is currently available on personal digital assistants with internet access, but only on RIMs and Palms. Although it's
compatible with fewer devices than Westlaw wireless, Lexis wireless makes more text available to users. You can access the full text of cases, statutes, as well as Shepards results. This is a "pilot" program, no pun intended. Users of Lexis wireless must register and will be asked for feedback. 

Martindale Hubbell on your Palm VII
http://xnow.com/xlegal.html: Martindale Hubbell is accessible in the wireless environment, but only on Palm VIIs. See this page for the necessary download. 

PDA JD.com
http://www.pdajd.com/vertical/home.xml: This is a great starting point for information about wireless services of interest to legal professionals. There is information about legal applications available on wireless devices, articles by attorneys using wireless devices, PDA buyer advice, discussion boards, and more. The site offers a document converter for Web pages and word processing documents into a wireless-friendly format. There are also some legal publications for sale which can be loaded into a Palm, including Supreme Court Decisions, Federal Legislation, State Rules of Civil Procedure, etc.

PDA Street.com
http://pdastreet.com/index.html: Not specific to legal professionals, this is a good site for those considering purchasing a personal digital assistant, or for users of
PDAs who want to keep up with the latest downloads and news. The site has detailed descriptions and comparisons of PDA's, news from the PDA industry, several message boards, downloads, information about PDA accessories, and device-specific newsletters.

March 19: Legal Forms on the Web

LegalZoom.com
http://www.legalzoom.com: Billing itself as a "personal online legal service center" where you can "take care of the most common legal procedures - without the expense of an attorney", this site allows users to customize legal documents by using menus and questionnaires. A polished-looking, filled out form is then generated. Available documents include living wills, wills, trusts, divorce agreements, prenuptial contracts, restraining orders, limited liability company agreements, tax forms, federal trademark registrations and copyright registrations. Many require a fee. Fees range widely; creating a living will is free, but creating and filing a federal trademark application costs $424.

U.S. Legal Forms
http://www.uslegalforms.com: Focusing primarily on litigation topics, this site provides access to thousands of forms. Many of which are free. This is one of the most comprehensive collection of forms on the Web. A search for Massachusetts forms resulted in well over 3,000 items. Most cost $10. The forms are available for download only. You cannot fill them out "at the site" and then print them out. 

IRLG Legal Forms Archive
http://www.ilrg.com/forms: This site offers an easy to browse collection of legal forms covering a wide range of topics, all of which are free. Of the forms sites, this is one of the simplest and easiest to navigate and it's competitive in coverage with other Web-based collections of legal forms. Print the documents with blanks, or copy and paste them into a word processor.

Forms from LexisOne
http://www.lexisone.com/store/catalog?action=main: Lexis offers this collection of forms on the Web, "over 6,000" of which are free. The fee-based forms are from Matthew Bender publications.  The search feature was a bit primitive; the best option is to browse by topic rather than search for a specific form. Users must register at the site before accessing the forms. Registration is free and only takes a moment, but does require the acceptance of their disclaimer and the provision of your email address.

FindForms.com
http://www.findforms.com/: Another site for both fee and free forms, FindForms is singular in allowing users to search or browse only the free forms, excluding any requiring a fee. The search works well and allows you to search both their site and other forms sites at the same time. In fact, FindForms seems to have collected the forms available from many places on the Web and put them in this central location.

March 26: Reference Desks on the Web

Xrefer.com
http://www.xrefer.com: Often called a "reference engine," Xrefer allows users to search a broad collection of reference works at once, some of which are the most noted on their topic. It contains over 50 encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and subject-specific sources. Sample titles include Fowler's Modern English Usage, Penguin's Dictionary of Economics, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. All sources are searched simultaneously unless you select a narrower group of sources. Items in the result list have source attributions making them easy to scan.

Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/: Another amalgamation of noted reference works, this site offers about 20 major sources in keyword-searchable form. Titles offered include Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Robert's Rules of Order, Strunk's Elements of Style, Oxford Shakespeare, Gray's Anatomy, Bulfinch's Mythology, and many others. There's even a searchable version of the King James Bible. Browse by author, title, or subject, or use pull-down menus to search a specific source or all sources simultaneously.

RefDesk.com
http://www.refdesk.com: This is Colin Powell's favorite Web site according to the New York Times. Refdesk is a comprehensive listing of factual sources on the Web. It has more than 20,000 links to dictionaries, newspapers, almanacs, directories, statistical sources, etc. Search results are links to sources, not entries from the reference sources themselves.  The front page of RefDesk is quite dense. Some may find it confusing, but you don't have to click far to get to substance on the Web. 

Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org: This site is like Yahoo, but it's far more selective, more intuitively organized, has few dead links, and most importantly, it's created by real librarians. Search here to find substantive Web sites by topic. Comprehensive and well maintained, this is a good starting point for those who want to surf their way to information.

April 2: U.S. Government Portals

FirstGov
http://www.firstgov.gov: FirstGov is the official portal to government information on the Web. It was created to ease citizen access to government by making the information on U.S. government Web pages, loosely estimated to number between 50 and 100 million pages, available via one site. Browse or search to find agency contact information, department publications, consumer services, etc. FirstGov is a joint effort of the General Services Administration and Inktomi, a search engine company. 

HiCitizen
http://www.hicitizen.com: The unofficial but more popular portal to U.S. government, HiCitizen is a user-friendly starting point for the most sought after government information. From the front page, you can apply for student aid, replace your Social Security card, change your address with the Post Office, register to vote, etc. Browsing is intuitive and the search feature works well. HiCitizen is the product of Imagitas, a privately held company based in Newton, Mass. 

FedForms
http://www.fedforms.gov: FedForms is a database of forms for the top 500 U.S. government services used by the public. Forms range from Small Business Loan applications, fishing license applications, to military records requests. Browse by agency, sub-agency, or search by keyword. Forms are in pdf format.  Calling itself a "work in progress," planned improvements include adding more forms, adding more search features, and allowing online processing for most forms by 2003. Even without those enhancements, FedForms is worth a visit.

FedWorld
http://www.fedworld.gov: The National Technical Information Service created FedWorld back in 1992, before the Web exploded, as a locator service for federal government information. It has expanded to provide fairly comprehensive access to government Web pages and databases. You can opt to search government Web sites, selected agency databases, or an index of government reports. This index of reports was created by NTIS and describes approximately 500,000 U.S. Government Reports from more than 200 agencies.

April 9: Contacts for Law Reviews and Legal Publishers

Anderson's On-line Directory of Law Reviews and Scholarly Legal
Periodicals
http://www.andersonpublishing.com/lawschool/directory/: This directory of law reviews is organized into four sections: General Student-Edited Law Reviews, Special Focus Student-Edited Law Journals, Non-Student-Edited Peer Review and Trade Journals, and University Presses. Limited information for each journal is provided, including address to which submissions and editorial correspondence should be directed, telephone and fax numbers, and frequency of publication. The directory does not include law reviews published outside the U.S., publications aimed at practitioners, or journals that do not accept unsolicited material for publication.

PubList.com The Internet Directory of Publications
http://www.publist.com/: PubList is a database of serial publications that you can browse or search by title, publisher, or subject. It is not specific to law but is included here because of its comprehensive coverage of serial legal publications. Entries provides title, frequency, ISSN, country of publication, editor, subject, circulation, address, URL, phone number, and a rights and permissions contact.

Directory of Publishers and Vendors: Law
http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/pubr/law.html: This list of links to legal publisher home pages is maintained by a group of acquisition librarians from Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Pace, and many other large research institutions. The list is comprehensive. See the side bar for links to bar associations, political science publishers, and university presses.

Publishers' Catalogues: Law 
http://www.lights.com/publisher/db/topics-Law.html: Another list of legal publishers, this list is less comprehensive but far easier on the eye. In addition to links to home pages, this site also provides a brief description of each publisher.

Corporate Affiliations of Legal Publishers 
http://www.colorado.edu/law/lawlib/ts/legpub.htm : An invaluable contribution on the part of Rob Richards, a law librarian at the University of Colorado, this up-to-date listing of legal publisher affiliations is the first place to check "who owns who." News of takeovers and mergers precedes the "Legal Publishers List," a linked list of legal publishers in outline format by corporate affiliation.

University Press Sites from the University of Chicago Press
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Others/AAUP/index.html: The University of Chicago Press offers this list of links to the home pages of members of the American Association of University Presses.

April 16: Finding Pre-1980 Legal and Other Academic Journal Articles 

Hein On-Line
http://heinonline.org/HeinOnline/start.pl: W.S. Hein Co. has recently begun a fantastic project to make law reviews available, in full text, from their first issue forward. Hein is aggressively seeking agreements with law journals. Hein On-Line currently offers fifty-seven journals with dates of coverage ranging from about ten years to 100 years. Harvard Law Review is available in full text from 1887 to 1997 but so far Yale Law Journal is only available from 1891 to 1925. Years of coverage will expand as the scanning process continues. Articles are in page-image format so page numbering is preserved. Browse a journal by volume, or search all journals for authors or titles. It is possible to search the full text of articles, but text searching is fairly primitive at this point. Even so, this is a noteworthy and singular endeavor to provide access to historical legal literature.

JSTOR (Journal Storage)
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:jstorage: JSTOR is a project to digitally reproduce journals in the arts and sciences from their first issue forward, excluding only the most current three years. Current years are excluded to appease publishers who do not want libraries to cancel subscriptions. JSTOR is not specific to law, but it contains journals in related disciplines such as political science, history, philosophy, and economics. JSTOR currently contains over 200 journals. Most are covered from the early 1900s forward. Search the text of all articles, or browse by journal.

Periodicals Contents Index
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:perconti: Periodical Contents Index (PCI) contains tables of contents for 3,500 journals in the humanities and social sciences, including approximately 160 law reviews and legal periodicals from their first issues to 1990/1991. Legal periodicals are primarily from North America and the United Kingdom, but some foreign titles published in French, German, Italian and Spanish are included. Search tables of contents by keyword, article title keyword, author, language, journal title, or one of thirty-seven journal subjects including law.

Use of the above resources is limited to faculty, students and staff of the Harvard Law School.  Access is secured by an IP address; if you connect to the internet using a Harvard Law School computer or data jack, you will be able to access these resources. If you use AOL, or another internet service provider to access the internet, you will not be able to connect.

April 23: Finding a Doctor, or Checking Up on One

Physician Profiles from the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine
http://www.docboard.org/ma/df/masearch.htm: This site provides information about physicians registered to practice in Massachusetts. Each listing covers hospital affiliations, education and residencies, specialties, honors and awards, board certifications, professional publications, malpractice information, and disciplinary actions. The malpractice section indicates whether or not the doctor has made a payment on a malpractice claim in the last ten years, and if so, whether the payment was considered average or large. Disciplinary actions include criminal convictions, pleas, and admissions, hospital discipline, and discipline by the Mass. Board of Registration in Medicine. Massachusetts is one of the few states making this information available to the public over the Web.

Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors' DocFinder
http://www.docboard.org/: Consult this list to find out which states besides Massachusetts make this type of physician information available. Compiled by the Administrators in Medicine, it is a list of state medical and osteopathic boards that provide free physician background information via the Web. Once you connect to any of the state board sites, look for the DocFinder link to find background on a physician. State boards vary in the amount of information they disclose. Some merely provide licensing information.

Health Street
http://www.healthstreet.com/: Use this site to find a physician, dentist, chiropractor, podiatrist, or elder care facility. Search for a physician by name, condition, or specialty within a state. Generate lists of specialists, with subspecialties, by city, zip code, or hospital affiliation. Health Street also provides specific contact information for virtually all health plans, by state, by carrier.

National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology
http://www.nationalregister.com/osd.html: This searchable database of psychologists is primarily available to registered users, but members of the general public can immediately receive an account allowing a limited number of queries for personal use. For an account, you must provide your email address and zip code. Search for a psychologist by name or criteria. You can search by location, area of expertise, theoretical orientation, i.e. cognitive/behavioral, existential/humanistic, systems, etc., and "groups targeted," the particular populations a psychologist works with the most. Results are in random order. Listings include psychologist name, address, phone number, areas of expertise, educational background, board certification, and licensed state.

American Board of Medical Specialties: Who's Certified?
http://www.abms.org/newsearch.asp: Use this site to determine whether or not your doctor is a certified specialist. There are twenty-four specialty boards recognized by the ABMS and the American Medical Association. In order to be certified as a medical specialist by one of these boards, a physician must be an M.D., licensed to practice, have completed a three to seven year accredited residency program and have passed a written examination. Most specialty boards also require assessments by the residency-training director.

April 30: The State of Education in the U.S.

The Common Core of Data
http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/: The Common Core of Data is the Department of Education's database on schools and education in the U.S. It is a comprehensive, annual, national statistical database of all public elementary and secondary schools and school districts. The database is available for 1986 through 1999. Users of the Web site can download zipped files containing the raw data for manipulation in statistical processing programs. Complete documentation on the data is available at the site.

U.S. Census Bureau Education
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education.html: The Census Bureau tracks educational trends and attainment levels by age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, occupation, industry, nativity, and period of entry. The Census also tracks the relationship between educational attainment and earnings. Use this page to browse your way into detailed Census statistics on education.

Encyclopedia of Education Statistics from NCES
http://nces.ed.gov/edstats/: The U.S. Dept. of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) combines its most popular compendiums of education statistics and makes them available at this page. Data covers the condition of U.S. education, education indicators, youth indicators, and projected education statistics. Users can browse by subject area or conduct full-text and table searches.

The Bush Education Initiative: "No Child Left Behind"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/reports/no-child-left-behind.html
http://ed.gov/inits/proposal.pdf (PDF version): This document outlines President Bush's education policy recommendations to Congress. His goals include testing to assess student performance and the success of individual schools, decreasing regulatory involvement in school policymaking, improving teacher quality, increasing literacy, and providing choices for parents whose children are in failing schools.

Measuring Up 2000: The State-by-State Report Card for Higher Education
http://measuringup2000.highereducation.org/reporthome.htm: The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education offers this state-by-state "report card" for higher education. The report grades states on how many students attend college, the expense of higher education, degrees attained, etc. View each state's performance in the States at a Glance section or examine more in-depth statistics and assessments by viewing States Profiles. The data used and the criteria applied are available for examination.

The Nation's Report Card: Fourth-Grade Reading 2000
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/: Released April 6, 2001, this report assesses the reading skills of fourth-graders nationally and finds that the gap between the highest and lowest performing students has widened over the past eight years; girls continue to outperform boys in reading; and student average reading scores have remained stable since 1992.

Education Developments and Assessments from the NEGP
http://www.negp.gov/page5.htm
The National Education Goals Panel is an independent federal agency charged with monitoring national and state progress toward education goals. This "What's New" page presents several recently released NEGP reports. These reports conclude that U.S. students have lost ground in international comparisons of math and science between fourth and eighth grades, student achievement gaps between whites and minorities have increased, and states are making some progress in mathematics.

May 7: Air Safety

NTSB Aviation Accident Database
http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/query.asp: The National Transportation Safety Board investigates and determines the probable cause of all civil aviation accidents in the U.S., its territories, and international waters. The database NTSB creates in the course of these investigations has been available on the Web since January 2001. Updated daily, it contains data on more than 135,000 accidents since 1983. Users can search aviation accidents by date, location, severity, aircraft category or make, airline, or keyword. Results are brief reports describing the accident and its probable cause.

FAA Incident Data System
http://nasdac.faa.gov/asp/fw_fids.asp: An aviation "incident" is an event that affects aviation safety but does not result in major aircraft damage or personal injury. Some examples of these would be hitting a bird on take off or turning a plane around due to pilot illness. The Federal Aviation Administration Incident Database contains information on all categories of these aviation incidents. The database covers 1978 to the present. Users may search by airport, type of flight, airline, aircraft make and registration, state, date, and phrase.

Real Time Airport Status
http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyFAA/index.html: The FAA Air Traffic Control Command Center provides immediate on-line updates of delays at airports. Select your airport off the national map, or browse lists of airports by region. Results indicate current weather conditions and departure and arrival delays in number of minutes. If you fly often, you may want to use the new email service that allows you to receive emails with "real-time" delay information at your airport. The information is not flight-specific. See http://www.fly.faa.gov/Notify_Signup/notify_signup.

Plane Crash Info
http://planecrashinfo.com: This site presents statistics and information about plane crashes. Find out your odds of being killed on a single flight by one of the top 25 airlines (1 in 12.4 million). Review statistics on the causes of crashes and mortality risk by type of flight: i.e., U.S. Commuter, developing-world domestic jet, etc. The section with airline safety ratings is especially useful.

AviationNewsWeb.com
http://www.aviationnewsweb.com/: This site covers aviation news focusing on commercial airline near misses, incidents, and crashes as reported by passengers, the FAA, NTSB, and other sources. It also contains selective flight attendant reports on difficult passengers and pilot reports of incidents.

Airport Capacity Benchmark Report 2001
http://www.faa.gov/events/benchmarks/: The FAA recently assessed and reported capacity benchmarks for 31 of the nation's busiest airports. Capacity benchmarks are the maximum number of flights an airport can routinely handle in an hour. The report finds that many airports are over scheduled to the point that it is not possible for all flights to take off and land on time. Some of the worst airports for flight delays in 2000 were La Guardia, Newark, O'Hare, and Logan. Visitors can view sections covering specific airports, or download the full text of the 200-page report.

May 16: Companies Being Regulated or in Litigation

Delaware Corporate Law Clearinghouse
http://www2.law.widener.edu/index.html: This database provides searchable, full text of briefs, complaints, opinions, and settlements in corporate suits filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery. The Delaware Court of Chancery is the preeminent trial court for corporate law. Coverage begins in March of 1999. Documents are added about 20 days after being filed. They are in page-image format. Lengthy appendices are not always included. The Clearinghouse is a co-operative project of the Delaware Court of Chancery and the law schools of Stanford and Widener universities.

Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
http://securities.stanford.edu/: Stanford Law School offers this database of federal class action securities fraud litigation documents. The Clearinghouse contains searchable, full-text briefs, complaints, and filings. Coverage begins in 1995. There is a searchable list of about 1,000 companies named in federal class action securities fraud suits. Users can browse lists of settlements, decisions, and filings with links to relevant documents.

Employer Sanctions Database from the Center for Immigration Studies
http://www.cis.org/sanctions/: This database has information about businesses and individuals fined by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for the knowing hire of illegal aliens. Coverage begins in 1989, but is not comprehensive until 1997. Users can search by name, state, SIC code, industry, number of employees, amount of fine, and date. Results include name and address, number of violations, total amount assessed in the original Notice of Intent to Fine, and the total amount collected.

Background Affiliation Status Information Center (BASIC)
http://www.nfa.futures.org/basic/search.asp: This database covers actions taken by futures exchanges against firms and individuals including violations, penalties, fines, arbitration awards, etc. Information is contributed by the National Futures Association (1982-), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (1975-), and U.S. futures exchanges (1990-). BASIC covers summary information concerning CFTC reparations and NFA arbitrations. Civil lawsuits and criminal proceedings by other federal or state regulatory agencies are not included. Search by NFA ID, or by individual or firm name.

OSHA Establishment Search
http://www.osha.gov/cgi-bin/est/est1: Use this database to track OSHA interventions at particular work sites or establishments or to perform statistical analyses of OSHA enforcement activity. Search by establishment name or state. Updated daily from over 120 OSHA offices, it contains information on 2.7 million inspections conducted since 1972.

May 25: Lists of Legal Conferences, Meetings, and Continuing Legal Education Events

Conference Calendar from Jurist: The Law Professor's Network
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/conflist.htm: Jurist, a Web site aimed at law professors, contains this list of upcoming, major legal conferences. Only conferences of interest to U.S. law professors are included. For each, there is either an email contact or a link to a registration page.

Meetings & Conferences from Martindale.com
http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/Professional_Resources/Meetings_and_conferences/meetings.xm:
Not specific to law professors, this calendar lists meetings and conferences of interest to members of the legal profession. It covers four months at a time. Links to more information are usually provided.

AALS Calendar: Upcoming Workshops and Conferences
http://www.aals.org/aalscal.html: The American Association of Law Schools presents its schedule of meetings and workshops with subject, date, and location. Links to more information are provided. See the left sidebar for materials from selected concluded meetings.

American Law Institute and ALI-ABA Meetings Calendar
http://www.ali.org/ali/alical.htm: The American Law Institute presents this calendar of ALI and ALI-ABA committee meetings. The ALI meetings include those for councils, consultative groups, advisers, etc., with hotels, cities, and dates. Notably, the ALI home page has been completely redesigned. For those interested in the Restatements or the UCC, it is well worth a visit. See http://www.ali.org.

The Practising Law Institute Calendar of Events
http://www.pli.edu/public/events.asp?progSort=META_progStartDate: The Practising Law Institute offers approximately 250 institutes and programs per year. This page lists those scheduled in the next six months. Click on program titles for full descriptions.

ABA-CLE National Events
http://www.abanet.org/cle/calendar.html: This annual calendar lists ABA-CLE National Institutes, Satellite Seminars, ABA-CLE Forums and Teleconferences cosponsored with other ABA entities.

ABA-CLE Regional Events
http://www.abanet.org/cle/compcal.html: This more inclusive list covers ABA-CLE events in locations all over the U.S. Minimal information about each is provided: titles, dates, and cities. Preceding the list is an ABA contact number and email for more information about the events.

June 11: Starting Points for Legal Research on the Web

The Guide to Law Online
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/index.html: The staff of the Library of Congress organize and present legal resources on the Web worldwide. Consider this an excellent starting point to find quality, free Web sites for law in the U.S. and foreign nations. Don't be deceived by its simplistic top page. This is a deep site with links to thousands of resources.

All Law.com
http://www.alllaw.com: All Law.com is a clean looking and easy to navigate starting point for legal research on the Web. From the top page, you can search or browse the directory of Web sites, find a lawyer, and view the top legal headlines of the day.

Internet Legal Resource Guide
http://www.ilrg.com: The Internet Legal Resource Guide is a major jumping-off point for all legal topics, legal lists, primary sources, etc. Erring on the side of inclusion, this site is less selective than other legal directories. Some may find the top page a bit busy, but there's plenty to browse here, especially in the section with law school rankings. A forte is its coverage of foreign legal Web sites.

Findlaw.com
http://www.findlaw.com: Findlaw.com is a comprehensive directory of legal sites on the Web. Now owned by West Group, it provides an organized, browseable and searchable "guide" of Web sites. Besides pointing to sites, Findlaw hosts a great deal of content, such as U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1893, decisions from other federal courts for about five years, and California case law back to 1934. From the top page, you can use a directory of legal attorneys, sign up for email newsletters of court opinions or legal news, or customize the page to your liking.

LexisONE.com
http://www.lexisone.com/legalresearch/: On this fairly new site, LexisNexis offers a great deal of free content, as well as a comprehensive guide of legal Web sites. Content includes legal forms, the Martindale-Hubbell directory and digest, case law from the U.S. Supreme Court from 1790 and selected federal and state cases from 1996. Its "Legal Internet Guide" boasts 20,000 sites in 36 categories. The search feature works very well. The only drawback to this site is the consistent marketing of LexisNexis commercial, fee-based services.

Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/: Not to be left out of any list of major legal gateways, the LII is another good starting point for legal research on the Web. LII's focus is primary content and subject guides. From the top page, access constitutions, codes, cases, topical guides, directories, and more.

United States Law Sources on the Web
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/research/guides/united_states/index.php: Focused on the United States, this guide, prepared by Michael Jimenez of the Harvard Law School Library, is arranged by jurisdiction, by branch of government. Highly selective, this guide includes links to the major primary resources for each heading. Legal subjects are not covered. Use the pull-down menu at the top for quick navigating.

Foreign and International Law Resources
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/reference/international/web_resources/index.htm: Focused on international and foreign legal Web sites, this annotated guide, prepared by the Harvard Law School Library's ILS reference librarians, is arranged into five sections: international law news, research tools, international law, international organizations, and foreign law.

June 18: Medicare Information Online

2001 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds [.pdf]
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR01/index.html: Published a few months ago, this report covers the status of the Social Security and Medicare trust fund. The entire report is 198 pages, but there is a summary available. According to the report, the short-term solvency of Medicare has improved, but health care costs per capita are increasing at a faster rate than had been assumed in previous reports. The summary states that Medicare faces financial difficulties more severe than those confronting Social Security.

The Official US Government Site for Medicare Information
http://www.medicare.gov/: The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers this site with consumer information about Medicare. Find out about coverage, joining, your Medicare card, participating physicians, supplemental prescription drug plans, nursing homes, and more. One especially nice feature is "Medigap Compare." a tool to compare and locate supplemental insurance policies by zip code or state.

Medicare Information from HCFA
http://www.hcfa.gov/medicare/medicare.htm: Also authored by HCFA, this Medicare Web site is more researcher-oriented than the above site. Find technical publications, national legislative information, statistical overviews, and directories. Publications include HCFA reports to Congress, actuarial tables, and HCFA Health Watch, a monthly newsletter with regulations and news. Statistics cover estimated benefit payments by state and year; national health care indicators and expenditures; trends in health and aging; and Medicare utilization and expenditure tables.

Medicare Rights Center
http://www.medicarerights.org/: Provided by a non-profit consumer advocacy group called the Medicare Rights Center, this is another consumer-oriented Medicare information site. Major sections include Medicare basics, programs, and publications. The most worthwhile area of the site is the "Home Care Channel" area. It provides very useful information about Medicare hospice and home health benefits for those with advanced illnesses. Researchers may want to browse the "MRC Perspective"; a section with editorials and policy briefs on Medicare policy issues.

The CCH Health & Human Resources Research NetWork
http://health.cch.com/ipnetwork: This health and labor database available to Harvard Law School faculty, students, and staff, provides access to dozens of CCH products covering Medicare and Medicaid law, healthcare compliance, and state Medicaid laws and regulations. Click on the "Health" tab at the top and browse the dozens of resources available. For information on using this CCH database, see www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/research/guides/eresources/cch_research_network.htm.

June 25: News Searching and Browsing on the Web

Moreover
http://www.moreover.com: Moreover is a search engine for news on the Web. It covers the top stories from 1800 sources, refreshing its database throughout the day. From the main page you can search the "News Portal" or click on the same to browse the headlines. Register to receive free, customized news by email.

HeadlineSpot
http://www.headlinespot.com/: If you want to determine whether or not a newspaper, magazine, or other source is on the Web, this is the place to start. HeadlineSpot organizes thousands of online news resources into categories. Browse for news sources by subject, city, state, region, country, or media type such as magazine, television, newspaper, radio, and newswire. Links to "Today's Top Stories" are provided in the right column.

1stHeadlines
www.1stheadlines.com: This site allows news searching and browsing. It covers local, regional, national and international news sources. Search by keyword or browse today's news concerning a country, metro area, or topic. Topics include law, law-attorneys, law-courts, or law-suits.

NewsHub
http://www.newshub.com/: NewsHub is a great source for the day's most recent breaking news stories. NewsHub checks headlines from major news sources every 15 minutes. It displays headlines in six categories: world, U.S., technology, financial, tech PR, science, entertainment, health, and sports. For each section, it indicates how many stories are new in the last 15 minutes. Clicking on a section title will display headlines in reverse chronological order in number of hours, 5-7 hours old, 7-9 hours old, et cetera, showing source and time of publication. Customize the page to display the topics you like from the sources you prefer by clicking on "MyNewsHub" and following the simple directions.

InfoGrid
http://www.infogrid.com/news.htm: InfoGrid allows you to browse to a news source, search engine, or Web site, or search all of them at once. Search results are primarily news items. Each hit shows headline, source, and date.

NewsAlert
http://www.newsalert.com: NewsAlert is another news search engine, but its focus is on corporate and stock news. Search by keyword or stock symbol. Symbol search results include quote information, news stories, a business summary, and more. After registering, you can customize the page, track a portfolio, and receive emails of news on specific companies or topics.

July 2: Fuel Economy, Fuel Prices, & Alternative Fuels

GasPriceWatch.com
http://www.gaspricewatch.com: This site displays the high, low, and average gas and home oil price in the U.S. and Canada. Find gas news, a chart of state gas taxes, and more. Thanks to 30,000 national "gas spotters," you can also search by zip code to find gas prices in your neighborhood.

Crude Oil and Natural Gas Prices
http://www.oilprices.com/: This site presents news on oil, gas, and energy and provides links to related Web sites. It also links to current oil and natural gas prices and to maps of recoverable crude oil futures.

Fuel Economy from the EPA
http://www.fueleconomy.gov: The EPA offers this handy tool to determine the miles per gallon of nearly any car made since 1985. It also shows annual fuel cost and GHGs, greenhouse gas emissions. You can customize displayed values to reflect the price of fuel in your area and your own driving patterns. If you are considering a car purchase, you may want to compare the best and worst cars for fuel economy by size or class made this year. The EPA also gives some general information about fuel economy, fuel conservation, and answers to frequently asked questions.

Fuel Economy from the EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ)
http://www.epa.gov/otaq/mpg.htm: This site has information from several government organizations related to fuel economy; fuel economy regulations from the EPA in PDF format; Federal Trade Commission Fact sheets on fuels, fuel economy car test results from the National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory; and fuel economy trends reports from OTAQ.

Alternative Fuels Data Center
http://www.afdc.nrel.gov/: If you have any curiosity about alternative fuels or alternative fuel vehicles, this is the Web site to visit. The Department of Transportation's Office of Transportation Technologies covers all kinds of information about alternative fuels and any current or proposed vehicles that run on them. Propane, hydrogen, methanol, ethanol, electricity, biodiesel, natural gas, solar, and other alternative fuels are explained. Related standards and legislation are provided for each. You can search for information about commercially-available alternative fuel vehicles, find locations of refueling sites, and view answers to frequently asked questions about AFVs. There is also an exhaustive list of federal government, state government, academic, and industry Web sites related to alternative fuels.

July 9: Criminal Records and Criminal Information on the Internet

State Sex Offender Registry Web sites
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/cac/registry.htm
Sex Offender Registries are publicly available on the Web for thirty-five states plus D.C. The FBI provides links to those available. Most of the registries include pictures of the offender and allow searching by name or zip code. This page also contains a description of the FBI's National Sex Offender Registry, which is a non-public resource.

State Inmate Locator
http://www.corrections.com/links/viewlinks.asp?Cat=20
About fifteen states make their databases concerning prison inmates available on the Internet. Most allow searching by name and some other criteria. This Web site provides links to those available. It also links to the Federal Bureau of Prisons "Inmate Information" page with phone numbers for official federal and state inmate location services.

Examples of States Making Criminal Records Available on the
Internet

According to a recent article about criminal records, (see Navigating the Maze of Criminal Records Retrieval by Lynn Peterson, http://www.llrx.com/features/criminal2.htm) twenty-nine states allow the public to run statewide criminal records searches. The emerging trend is to provide this service on the Web. The following are a few examples of how states are making criminal records available on the Internet. Some are doing it for free, while others require a fee; some allow you to use only a person's name, while others require that you know more.

Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Records Service
http://records.txdps.state.tx.us/default.cfm
Texas allows the public to search criminal convictions, deferred adjudications, and sex offender registrations. There is no fee, but you must set up an account by providing your name and contact information before searching.

Carolina Access to Criminal Histories
http://www.sled.state.sc.us/SLED/default.asp?Category=SLEDCRC&Service=CRC
South Carolina allows anyone to access state criminal records for a fee of $25 per search.

Washington Access to Criminal History
https://watch.wsp.wa.gov/
For a $10 fee, Washington allows anyone to obtain state criminal history conviction information. Searches require that you know the person's date of birth.

Missouri Criminal Records Repository
http://www.gov.state.mo.us/background/criminal.htm
Missouri allows anyone to access conviction information on felony and aggravated misdemeanor arrests reported to the state by counties. The fee is $5. You must know the person's birth date and social security number.

July 23: Bankruptcy

The United States Trustee Program
http://www.usdoj.gov/ust: The Department of Justice's U.S. Trustee Program oversees the administration of bankruptcy cases and private trustees and seeks to "promote the efficiency and protect the integrity of the Federal bankruptcy system." The site offers state, regional, and national bankruptcy filings statistics, the United States Trustee Manual, relevant CFR parts, handbooks on Chapters 7, 12, and 13 (see "Private Trustee Listings and Library") and the USTP's Study of Financial Privacy and Bankruptcy.

List of Bankruptcy and District Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/allinks.html: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts maintains this list of bankruptcy and district court homepages arranged by circuit. Most bankruptcy courts listed provide local bankruptcy rules and forms, hearings calendars, and contact information for judges and clerks. In addition, many have caseload statistics, administrative orders, and opinions.

Official Bankruptcy Forms
http://www.uscourts.gov/bkforms/bankruptcy_forms.html: Also from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the Bankruptcy Forms Manual is made available on the Web. It contains official bankruptcy forms with instructions. Unfortunately, the forms cannot be filled in online.

American Bankruptcy Institute
http://www.abiworld.org/: The American Bankruptcy Institute aims to foster dialogue among lawyers, business people, and legislators on current and potential bankruptcy problems. Their Web site has daily bankruptcy news headlines, legislative updates, government reports, consumer bankruptcy research, bankruptcy statistics, and much more. This is one of the better starting points for bankruptcy information on the Web.

National Bankruptcy Conference
www.nationalbankruptcyconference.org: The National Bankruptcy Conference is a small, scholarly group of noted members of the bench, bar and teaching profession specializing in bankruptcy law. Its mission is to monitor the operation of bankruptcy laws, consult with U.S. legislators, and make recommendations about needed revisions to the bankruptcy code. The site offers detailed analysis of recent legislation and provides links to relevant congressional testimony.

August 1: Medical Records Privacy

Office for Civil Rights-Privacy of Health Information
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/: The final regulation for medical information privacy under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act became effective in April. Hospitals have two years to comply. This Web site from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights presents the final rule in text, pdf, and html format. There is also a new guidance explaining the privacy protection standards in question-answer format. Sections cover patient consent, parental rights, marketing, medical research, and governmental access. The guidance may be downloaded in WordPerfect or viewed in html.

Privacy and Confidentiality from the AMA
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/4711.html: The American Medical Association published its comments on the HHS final rule on Privacy of Medical Records, taking issue with several provisions on behalf of physicians. This page has links to these comments, an AMA position paper on the final rule, and AMA-drafted model state bills on health information privacy.

Draft Revisions to the Uniform Health Care Information Act
http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/uhcia/hci0600.htm: The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws had been redrafting provisions of the Uniform Health Care Information Act originally completed in 1985. It covers disclosure of and access to a patient's health care information. This draft, published one year ago, is the most recent publicly available. When the federal regulations were proposed, NCCUSL drafted a comparison document with the Uniform Act; see http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/uhcia/hci200com.htm.

Health Privacy Project
http://healthprivacy.org/: The Health Privacy Project (HPP) of Georgetown University's Institute for Health Care Research and Policy tracks and presents news and publications about medical information privacy. HPP authored a useful state-by-state survey of medical privacy statutes in 1999. Visitors can read the entire report or state-specific summaries. The site also offers federal regulations, bills, and a list of government reports about health privacy.

Medical Privacy from CCHC
http://www.cchc-mn.org/privacy.php3: The Citizens' Council on Health Care's mission is to "empower public participation in the health care debate by sharing policy analysis, information and alternatives." This portion of its web site advocates for confidentiality of medical information by detailing potentially intrusive government initiatives. Sections cover health care identification numbers, database integration, national immunization registry initiatives, government health care smart cards, etc. Links to relevant governmental pages and reports are provided.

August 6: Directories of Persons and Businesses

WhitePages.com
http://www.whitepages.com: Search for telephone numbers, addresses, email addresses, area codes, zip codes, Web sites, international calling codes, and U.S. toll-free numbers. You can also do a reverse look-up; put in a phone number or address to find a person or business.

Telephone Directories on the Web
http://www.teldir.com/: For those with friends and colleagues all over the world, this Web site is a handy tool. It's a comprehensive list of telephone directories available in 170 countries. You cannot search them simultaneously, unfortunately. Browse by continent, then country to see the directories available. The site also has a good listing of email directories, U.S., and worldwide.

World Time and Area Codes from Telstra
http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/search/time.html: This site generates time charts and calling directions for international calls. Enter where you're calling from and to, and it will show you current local time in both, specific dialing instructions, and a 24-hour time comparison so you can figure out an appropriate time to call during waking hours on both ends.

Academic Email Directories
http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/FAQs/email/college.html: This looks a bit archaic, but it works well. Enter the name of an academic institution and it will provide a link to its email and phone directory if available. It also provides the generic email format when no directory is available. For example, for the University of Mississippi it states "Mail is usually FMLastname@olemiss.edu but students can select their own usernames." Many non-U.S. academic institutions are included.

Google's Phone Book Feature
http://www.google.com: Google is one of the best general search engines around, and it provides U.S. addresses and phone numbers through its regular search box. To find a U.S. business, type the business name with city and state or with zip code. To find a person, type in any of the following: phone number with area code; last name, city, state; last name, zip code; or first name, last name, state.

August 20: Cybercrime and Internet Fraud

Cybercrime from the Dept. of Justice Criminal Division
http://www.cybercrime.gov: The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division prosecutes cybercrime in the U.S. including computer intrusion, electronic copyright violations, and fraud. A growing division, ten new specialized prosecutorial units called CHIPs (Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property) are being created. This site has news items, press releases, guidances and selected primary materials related to cyberlaw. See especially "Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations," a fascinating, detailed manual on the search and seizure of computers and electronic devices (with and without a warrant), and electronic surveillance in communication networks.

The National Infrastructure Protection Center
http://www.nipc.gov: Hosted by the FBI, the NIPC is an inter-agency center that supports investigations of computer intrusions. Its aim is to detect and investigate computer crimes that threaten the national infrastructure. The NIPC publishes many types of warnings: alerts on in-process attacks, advisories suggesting protection measures, and assessments on computer viruses and trendy hacking exploits. The site also has press releases, a newsletter for system professionals, and describes major investigations.

U.S. Secret Service Financial Crimes Division
http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/index.htm?financial_crimes.htm&1: The Secret Service investigates financial cybercrimes involving credit cards, access devices, identity theft, computer fraud, automated teller machines, and electronic funds transfers. The site contains their manual "Best Practices for Seizing Electronic Evidence" which explains how to recognize computer evidence and prepare and conduct Searches/Seizures of computers, cell phones, pagers, faxes, and smart cards. This is a much less detailed manual than the one from the Department of Justice mentioned above.

The Internet Fraud Complaint Center
http://www.ifccfbi.gov/: The IFCC is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center aimed at fighting Internet fraud. Victims can report online fraud using a form at the site. Visitors can view statistics about Internet fraud, find press releases and warnings, and view a recent report on Internet Auction fraud.

Convention on Cyber-Crime
http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/projets/cybercrime.htm: This is the most recent draft of the Convention on Cyber-Crime from the Council of Europe. The purpose is to help countries fight cybercrime by specifying ways to deal with unauthorized access to networks, data interference, computer-related fraud and forgery, child pornography, and digital copyright infringement. Privacy advocates believe it's too invasive and sacrifices privacy.

Econsumer.gov
http://www.econsumer.gov: Thirteen countries, including the U.S., participate in econsumer.gov, an international effort to combat cross-border Internet fraud. The site is administered by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Focusing on e-commerce fraud, it provides information about how to avoid fraud, how to contact consumer protection authorities, and offers an online form to complain about e-commerce transactions with a foreign company. The site is available in English, Spanish, French, and German.

September 4: Controlled Substances

Controlled Substance Schedules
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/index.html: The Drug Enforcement Administration's Diversion Control Program publishes the schedules of controlled substances. A disclaimer states that they "are intended as general references and are not comprehensive listings of all controlled substances," but the lists seem fairly complete. Street names are usually provided. The DEA also publishes charts of scheduling actions (additions and changes to schedules) by decade since 1971. Federal Register citations are included.

Drug Facts
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/index.html: The Office of National Drug Control Policy publishes all kinds of useful information about controlled substances including reports on commonly abused drugs with estimated prevalence, adjudication statistics, production levels, and distribution information. The ONDCP lists federal sources of drug data in a chart with the sponsoring agency, title of the data set, frequency of the data, target population and geographic coverage. The chart links to the data sets themselves. The site also features a database of street terms for drugs, i.e., dream gun, flower flipping, Racehorse Charlie. Browse by drug, or search by keyword.

National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://www.nida.nih.gov/: The National Institute on Drug Abuse, a division of the National Institutes of Health, offers drug information to health professionals and the public. Summary sheets cover families of abused drugs such as inhalants, "club drugs," and prescription medications, as well as specific drugs such as nicotine and PCP. The Publications section lists over 300 reports covering narrow topics in drug abuse research. Many are available in full text; others must be ordered.

International Narcotics Control Board
http://www.incb.org/e/index.htm?: The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is an independent and quasi-judicial organ of the United Nations whose purpose is to implement drug conventions. The INCB offers technical reports on narcotics, psychotropic drugs, and chemical precursors to controlled substances. It also publishes lists of controlled substances under international control with statistics on imports, exports, production, manufacture, consumption, stocks and seizures. Relevant UN conventions are available at the site.

UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention
http://www.undcp.org/: The ODCCP publishes statistics, research, treaties, and news about drug control and drug supply reduction. Their annual report on global illicit drug trends is available, as is their World Drug Report from 2000. The Treaty and Legal Affairs section includes the text of relevant treaties and resolutions, as well as drug laws and legislation of member states in English only, French only or Spanish and English. Search by keyword or browse by country. Coverage seems to begin in the late '80s for most countries.

September 17: Sites Related to the Terrorist Attack

Attack on America in Context from LexisNexis
http://www.lexisnexis.com/resources/: LexisNexis is making relevant content from its databases available free on its Web site. There are news search results about terrorist groups and Osama bin Laden, statutes including the Victims of Terrorism Act, information about other terrorist attacks on the U.S., biographical information, and a chronology of events.

World Trade Center Survivor Database
http://www.ny.com/wtclist.html: Hosted by NY.com, this is an alphabetical list of people who survived the attack on the World Trade Center. It is updated every 15 minutes.

I'm Okay Message Center
http://okay.prodigy.net: This is a message center for people to send word that they are OK. There are several similar check-in registries linked to from this site. Users can search for friends in New York, D.C., and Pittsburgh and view notices from affected companies.

Tenants of the World Trade Center
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/articles/tower1.html: The Washington Post lists companies that had office space in the World Trade Center. Emergency contact names for the companies are listed if known.

ResearchBuzz 911
http://www.researchbuzz.com/911.html: Tara Calishain, author of a weekly research newsletter, has created an extensive list of links related to the attacks. Linked pages include news sites, donation sites, travel information, forums, memorials, counseling information, and government resources.

FEMA
http://www.fema.gov: The Federal Emergency Management Agency is posting a series of resources related to the attack: phone numbers, assistance numbers for victims, advice on how to talk to children, and an explanation of FEMA's role in the aftermath of the attacks.

September 24: The 2000 Presidential Election Revisited: Reports and Archives

Statistics of the 2000 Presidential and Congressional Election http://clerk.house.gov/elections/2000election.pdf: The Office of the Clerk of the US House of Representatives recently published this 80-page report containing the official vote counts for the most recent federal elections. Counts are listed by state. There are also tables with vote totals for presidential electors, senators, and representatives. The report can be browsed by state.

Income and Racial Disparities in the Undercount in the 2000 Presidential Election
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/pdf/electionsnationalstudy.pdf: The House Committee on Government Reform authored this 10-page report correlating vote counting with income and race. The report concludes that voters in high-minority, low-income districts were about three times more likely to have their votes discarded than voters in high-income, low-minority districts. This was a nation-wide finding. Forty districts in twenty states were analyzed.

Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election
http://www.usccr.gov/vote2000/stdraft1/main.htm: The U.S. Commission of Civil Rights recently published a draft report with the findings of its investigation into voting problems in Florida during the 2000 election. The report states that African-American voters in Florida were at least nine times more likely than other voters to have their ballots rejected in the presidential election and that poorer counties were much more likely to use voting systems with higher spoilage rates than those used by more affluent counties. Two members of the commission want to append a dissenting statement but it has not yet appeared because of controversy over its preparation.

Election 2000: An Internet Library
http://archive0.alexa.com/collections/e2k.html: For researchers of the 2000 election, this is an amazing resource commissioned by the Library of Congress and produced by several companies. It is a repository of about 1000 selected Web sites, including CNN, the Washington Times, political party sites, and candidate sites. The pages were captured and archived at the end of each day during the fall and winter of 2000. Researchers can browse the CNN election page, for example, by specific day and view the changing poll results, headlines, etc. Browse the list of archived sites or search for a specific one. Results are links to archives of the page by date.

Election 2000 from Stanford Law School
http://election2000.stanford.edu: Stanford Law maintains this Web page with links to government and commission reports on the 2000 election, Web-published court documents in cases related to the election, as well as pages related to election reform, voting technology, commissions, task forces, etc.

October 9: Think Tanks: Research & Home Pages

PolicyFile
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:policyfi: PolicyFile, a commercial resource available to the Harvard community, is an index to public policy research from over 300 think tanks, university research programs, and research centers including the Brookings Institution, Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, RAND Corporation, and World Bank. It covers 1990 forward. Most of the documents indexed are available for free on the Web; links to them are provided. Other documents must be purchased. Search by keyword, or browse by subject or organization. Click Search from the main page to begin.

The Policy Library
http://www.policylibrary.com: The Policy Library, "a non-profit and non-partisan enterprise" maintains a database of about 1,000 policy papers from think tanks, governments, and universities. It focuses on UK-based think tanks but it covers many others whose research is published in English. New papers are added to the database frequently. Browse content in four divisions: social policy, economic policy, international issues, and political thought. The entire database can be searched by subject, author, country, institution or title.

NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks
http://www.nira.go.jp/ice/tt-info/nwdtt99/: The National Institute for Research Advancement maintains this comprehensive list of think tanks all over the world. Browse by country, acronym, or by full name in English. This is a directory only; the contents of the individual Web sites cannot be collectively searched.

Think Tanks from infoUSA
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/politics/thnktank.htm: The Office of International Information Programs, part of the U.S. Department of State, maintains this selective, linked list of premier think tanks in the United States. The main infoUSA site at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa is aimed at foreign audiences seeking information about official U.S. policies, American society, culture, and political processes.

October 15: Cancer

CancerNet from the National Institutes of Health
http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov: This site comprehensively covers cancer topics. There are detailed fact sheets for each type of cancer, which cover risk factors, testing, treatment options, potential complications, clinical trials, complementary and alternative medicine therapies, support resources, and more. Breaking news about cancer studies and research can also be found at the site. Some portions are written for health professionals, but the site is aimed primarily at the public.

OncoLink from the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/: Similar to the NIH site, OncoLink is a comprehensive starting point for detailed information about virtually any cancer. Some may find this site easier to browse. Fact sheets about each type of cancer are comprehensive and mention clinical trials underway. Coping, symptom management, screening and prevention, and traditional treatment and alternative therapies are covered. The information is written for a somewhat sophisticated audience but the site is aimed at the public. Be aware that the site has corporate sponsors, some of which are pharmaceuticals. 

American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org: The American Cancer Society's aim is to communicate life-saving information about cancer detection, treatment, and support. The page provides medical information, treatment decision tools, cancer research news, and descriptions of community resources for cancer patients and their supporters. The page is also an advocacy piece encouraging community involvement. 

Cancer Care
http://www.cancercare.org: This site is run by a non-profit whose aim is to provide emotional support, information, and practical help to people with cancer. The site is supported in large part by pharmaceuticals. Cancer Care has less detailed medical information than those listed above, and only covers the more common cancers. It is very easy to read, however, and its emphasis on counseling and patient-to-patient communication resources may appeal to some.

October 22: Law School Rankings

U.S. News Law School Ranking
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/beyond/gradrank/law/gdlawt1.htm: U.S. News ranks law schools into four tiers. Methodology is explained on the site. Note that the American Association of Law Schools and the ABA are opposed to U.S. News ranking methods. See “Validity Study” by AALS http://www.aals.org/validity.html and an ABA Journal article "Rankled by Rankings" http://www.abanet.org/journal/mar98/03fschol.html.

New Educational Quality Ranking of U.S. Law Schools for 2000-2002
http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/bleiter/LGOURMET.HTM: Brian Leiter, a professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin, has created an alternative to the U.S. News & World Report ranking of law schools. He ranks based primarily on faculty research productivity and prominence, but also on the quality of students and teaching. Preceding the list is a detailed explanation of criteria used. See also Prof. Leiter's ranking of law schools for law and philosophy, http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/gourmet/Rankings.htm#STUDY.

Thomas E. Brennan's Judging the Law Schools
http://www.ilrg.com/rankings/index.html: Back in 1996, Thomas Brennan ranked the top twenty law schools by quality, institution, faculty, library, diversity, and value, as well as by a composite of all those factors. He used fifty categories from the ABA's Review of Legal Education for data. His methodology is available at the site. Brennan is the president of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan and formerly served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan.

MyLawSchool Rankings.com
http://www.mylawschoolrankings.com: This site allows users to rank law schools according to how important each of five factors are to them: academic reputation; student midrange LSAT, student faculty ratio, employment prospects (starting salary), and quality of teaching.  The default list is based somewhat on a ranking by Professor Brian Leiter. 

The Ranking Game
http://monoborg.law.indiana.edu/LawRank/rankgame.html: Similar to the above site, this is also a tool that allows users to rank law schools according to their preferences. Produced by Prof. Jeffrey E. Stake at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, it seems to use many more parameters than MyLawSchool Rankings.com. All criteria and their components are explained. The tool requires that your browser is fairly new and has Java enabled.

November 12: U.S. Anti-Terrorism Legislation

Legislation Related to the Attack of September 11, 2001 
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/terrorleg.htm: The Library of Congress compiles and presents legislation related to the September 11th attack, including the USA Patriot Act. The page includes enacted bills and resolutions and pending legislation. Summary and status of pending legislation is available.

Explanation of the Victims of Terrorism Relief Act
http://www.house.gov/jct/x-68-01.pdf: The Joint Committee on Taxation offers this technical explanation of the Victims of Terrorism Relief Act of 2001. (The text of the bill itself is available at the above site.)

War on Terrorism from Whitehouse.gov
http://www.whitehouse.gov/response/index.html: This page presents documents and information related to the war on terrorism and Operation Enduring Freedom. In addition to speeches, proclamations, and news items, there is brief information about diplomatic and military actions, the Homeland Security Office, and humanitarian efforts.

ACLU's "Safe and Free" Campaign
http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree/index.html: The ACLU expresses concern about the adverse effects of anti-terrorism legislation on civil liberties. This page links to editorials and reports from the ACLU on wiretapping, airport security, detainees, and face recognition technology. See also this chart comparing current law with new provisions of the Patriot Act, http://www.aclu.org/congress/patriot_chart.html.

New Sentencing Guidelines For Bioterrorism
http://www.ussc.gov/PRESS/NBCrelease.htm: This press release from the U.S. Sentencing Commission explains that since Thursday, November 8, federal sentencing guidelines impose a higher base offense level for crimes involving nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. Ironically, this amendment to the sentencing guidelines was propos