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`The Net: New and Notable
`LIFE
`Find a career, laugh a lot, or pay a visit to the E-Quarium
`Sam Vincent Meddis
`561 words
`16 December 1998
`USA Today
`USAT
`FINAL
`060
`English
`© 1998 USA Today. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All Rights Reserved.
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`Useful resources
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`*The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program began in 1947 in Los Angeles, long before the Internet
`was concei\ed. But thanks to the Web, we find out how to contribute locally to this program, which distributes
`toys to deseNing kids.
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`www.marforres.usmc.mii/T4T.nsf?OpenDatabase[http://www.marforres.usmc.mii/T4T.nsf?OpenDatabase]
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`* Futurestep offers to help you find exclusi\e career opportunities while it provides customized feedback. And it
`promises confidentiality. Questionnaires could take you up to an hour to complete. A seNice of the executi\e
`search firm Korn/Ferry International.
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`www.futurestep.com[http://www.futurestep.com]
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`* Trips for Kids is a nonprofit 1..0lunteer organization that provides bike-related fun and training for low-income
`kids. It's just gone national.
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`www.webcom.com/tfk[http://www.webcom.com/tfk]
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`* Appoint.net is a password-protected calendar and scheduling application. Registration is quick and free.
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`www.appoint.net[http://www.appoint.net]
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`Entertaining
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`* If you're in need of a laugh now and then, here's an opportunity to laugh a lot. At the aptly named Laugh-A-Lot!
`you can have the laughs e-mailed to you or check out the daily feature o\er the Web.
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`laugh-a-lot. com
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`* No need to wait anxiously at the mailbox this holiday season for the Victoria's Secret catalog. Includes
`fashion videos for true underwear aficionados.
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`www. victoriassecret. com[http:/ /www. victoriassecret.com]
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`Educational
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`*You're invited to take a virtual tour of the National Museum of Natural History's dinosaur exhibits. Search for
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`specimens by name, group or time period.
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`www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/dino/tourfram.htm[http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/dino/tourfram.htm]
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`*Pay an on-line visit to the E-Quarium. Brought to us by California's Monterey Bay Aquarium, the site lets us
`follow a step-by-step tour of ewrything from rocky shores to an underwater canyon.
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`www.mbayaq.org[http://www.mbayaq.org]
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`Oddities
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`*And now for our "ewr popular'' grammar-police-running-amok "categoryR: The Gallery Of RMisusedR (sic)
`Quotation Marks. But the site doesn't say whether such usage is an "impeachableR offense.
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`www.juvalamu.com/qmarks[http://www.juvalamu.com/qmarks]
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`Public affairs * Human Rights Watch, which celebrates its 20th anniwrsary, asks us to take note of the global
`challenges that lie ahead. The site offers a comprehensiw look at the state of human rights around the wortd,
`including the critical issue of children's rights.
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`www.hrw.org/hrw/wortdreport99/index.html[http://www.hrw.org/hrw/wortdreport99/index.html]
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`* The Web lets you check out the strange twists and turns of the FBI's long-cloaked Frank Sinatra
`inwstigation.
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`www.apbonline.corn/gfiles/frank/index.htrnl[http://www.apbonline.com/gfiles/frank/index.html]
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`* Speaking of legal things, Law News Network taps the news cowrage, features and opinions found in 20
`national and regional publications. Includes a free e-mail service of top legal reports.
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`www.lawnewsnetwork.com[http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com]
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`Techie
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`*Find out why the magazine Yahoo! Internet Life calls Cindy Margolis the "Queen of the Internet." The Web's
`most downloaded woman invites you to check out her story.
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`www.cindymargolis.com[http://www.cindymargolis.com]
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`*The search engine Google, brainchild of Stanford Uniwrsity grad students, is designed to cut down on info
`owrtoad. It sorts search results according to the number of other "important" sites that link to particular pages
`you're hunting for.
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`www.google. com[http://www.austinl ibrary. com :2276]
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