Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Community
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Idealist
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National
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New car prices, used car pricing, auto reviews.
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New
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Better Business Bureau Buyer beware! How to
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EDGAR
SEC corporate filings from 1993-present. Searchable by company name, SIC code,
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FXConverter
Currency converter.
NAICS
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Internet Fraud How to avoid Internet investment scams.
Small
Business Administration Starting, financing, and managing a small business.
Thomas Register "The most comprehensive
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Consumer Information Security
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Digital TV Converter Box Coupon Program
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FTC Consumer Protection:
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HardOCP Technical information and news for
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Hoaxbusters Internet hoaxes, how
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Mouserobics
Mouse practice for beginners
Pricewatch For the latest street prices
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Virus Hoaxes
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Webopedia
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Better Business Bureau Buyer beware! How to safeguard against business fraud,
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Consumer
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Consumer World
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Epinions.com
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Federal
Government US Consumer Gateway
FTC
Consumer Protection: E-Commerce & the Internet
National
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U.S. Consumer
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College Net
Web portal for students to apply entirely via the Internet to 350 colleges and
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College
Rankings
ERIC Clearinghouse Includes
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FAFSA
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Higher Education Services Corporation New
York State student aid information, including TAP, grants, loans, and college
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Lesson
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New York State Department
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U.S.
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JobStar Central Resume
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Monster.com
Nassau County Civil Service Commission
Occupational Outlook Handbook
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The Riley Guide Links to
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U.S. Office of Personnel Management
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Gay & Lesbian National Hotline
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Men's Book Group of Long Island
GLBTQ
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Lesbian
Herstory Archives
Long Island Gay &
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National Gay and Lesbian
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The New York City Lesbian,
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American
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New York Legal help and information for low and moderate-income New Yorkers.
Long
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Nassau
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Nolo Law Centers
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U. S. Census
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Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs
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Dr. Koop's Community
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Flu Clinic
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American Lung Association.
Health
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forms on appointing your health care agent.
Healthfinder
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Medical School's Consumer Health Information and the University of Pennsylvania
School of Dental Medicine.
International Food Information Council Foundation
Scientific information on food safety and nutrition.
Mayo Clinic's Health Oasis
Medicaid
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Medicine Net
MEDLINEplus Health information from the
National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
Merck Manual--Home Edition
The online version of a standard medical reference work.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine
New York State
Health Care Bureau Protects - and advocates - for the rights of all health
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NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
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General's Office.
Professional Misconduct
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PubMedCentral Free digital archive
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of Health.
US Dept. of Health and Human Services
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Memory from the Library of Congress Primary and archival material on American
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American President.org
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Avalon Project Primary documents in law, history, and diplomacy, from 3000
BCE to the 21st century.
Biographical
Directory of the U.S. Congress, 1774-Present
Eyewitness
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Museum
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Nobel Prize Winners
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iLoveLanguages A comprehensive catalog
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Language Learning Library
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WordReference.com Online French, Italian,
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American Library Association
Long
Island Libraries Directory of libraries on Long Island
Long
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Nassau County
Library Association
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"Great Books Online": Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Columbia Encyclopedia,
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Gray's Anatomy, World Factbook,
Oxford Shakespeare, and more!
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Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Find a Good Book
Reading suggestions from book lists, databases, and websites. Collected by Hennepin
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Online Literary Criticism
Project Gutenberg Free e-books, classics
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Reading Group Guides
WorldCat Books in libraries nation-wide.
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CNN.com
Google
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Herald
Newspapers Online
MSNBC
National Weather Service
Newsday.com
Current and recent news. For older articles, use UMI Proquest
Direct.
Online Newspapers: Internet
Public Library Newspapers from around the country and around the world.
Public Agenda Online Nonpartisan source
for public opinion research and policy analysis.
Terrorism:
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Weather Underground Current, forecasted,
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World
Weather Information Service Official observations and forecasts from around
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Yearbook
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A-Z Lyrics Universe More than 50,000 lyrics
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All Movie Guide
All Music Guide
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Classical Music Navigator Music history presented such a way as to allow the
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own "points of familiarity."
DW3:
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Encyclopedia
of Television
Internet Broadway Database
Internet Movie Database
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Playbill
Online Seating charts for theatres in NYC and elsewhere.
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The
Cook's Thesaurus A cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients
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and suggested substitutions.
Epicurious
Food Network
Joy
of Baking
Measurement
Conversion Calculator For dry or liquid measures.
Mimi's
Cyber Kitchen
Babelfish at Altavista Translates
text and webpages in 10 languages.
Citing
Sources within Your Paper Style sheets for bibliographies and notes.
How
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Internet Public Library
Librarians' Internet Index
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Library System Selected Sites by Subject
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Legends Reference Pages
WorldCat Books in libraries nation-wide.
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Merriam-Webster Online
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YourDictionary.com
Encyclopedias
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About.com Quotations Page
American
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Also
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All About Birds Birds
and birding from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Dolan
DNA Learning Center
Global Volcanism
Program Volcano information from the Smithsonian Institution.
Mathworld
NASA Web
National
Geographic Magazine
National Science Digital
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Science
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World
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AARP:
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Administration
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Aging Well: New York
State Office for the Aging
Elderhostel
Elder Web
FirstGov
for Seniors
Health Insurance Information,
Counseling & Assistance Program
Medicare:
The Official U. S. Government Site
New
York State Office for the Aging
SeniorDrivers.org
From the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
Senior
Housing: New York State Office for the Aging
Social
Security Administration
ESPN
Sports
NCAA Sports
WFAN
Seating charts for several local sports stadiums.
Yahoo!
Sports
FedStats
Historical
Census Browser 1790-1960
U. S. Census
Bureau
IRS Forms and Publications
Nassau County
Assessment Review Commission/Forms and Instructions Forms to contest the assessment
on your home or business in Nassau.
Nassau
County Assessment Review on the Web Contest the assessment on your home or
business in Nassau online.
Nassau
County Property Reassessment Project
New
York State Tax Forms
Babelfish at Altavista Translates
text and webpages in 10 languages.
Centers
for Disease Control Travelers' Health
Fodor's
Travel Online
FXConverter
Currency converter.
Geodata.gov Create
maps showing the elements that you need: agriculture, economics, health, transportation,
etc.
Global
Gateway World culture and resources from the Library of Congress.
MapQuest
Maps.com
New
York Travel Information Gateway Real-time updates on road conditions, etc.
in New York State.
Sperling's BestPlaces
Transportation Security Agency's Travel
Tips "Everything you need to know about new airport security measures."
Travelocity
U.S.
Department of State: Bureau of Consular Affairs
U.S.
Department of State Country Background Notes
The
World Factbook
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American Library Association Great Web
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Baby Names
Crayola Creativity Art information and activities
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Nassau
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