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May 26 - Agriculture

Agricultural Research Magazine

"Welcome to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's science magazine, published monthly by the Agricultural Research Service and now available electronically."

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May 26 - Food

Language of the Food Industry

Searchable glossary of supermarket terminology.

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May 25 - Legal

LLRX: Guide to European Legal Databases

This article focuses on "databases in HTML format using Internet as a primary and unique carrier."

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May 25 - Medical

National Hospital Discharge and Ambulatory Surgery Data

"The National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), which has been conducted annually since 1965, is a national probability survey designed to meet the need for information on characteristics of inpatients discharged from non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States." Good terminology source...

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May 24 - Environment

NATO CCMS: Challenges of Modern Society Environmental Clearing System

"The Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS) was established in 1969 in order to give the Alliance a new "social dimension." Its aim was to attack practical problems already under study at the national level and, by combining the expertise and technology available in member countries, arrive fairly rapidly at valid conclusions and to make recommendations for action to benefit all." Includes reports on pilot studies conducted, such as "Ecosystem Modelling of Coastal Lagoons for Sustainable Management" and "Evaluation of Demonstrated and Emerging Remedial Action Technologies for the Treatment of Contaminated Land and Ground Water (Phase III)."

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May 24 - Grammar

Traditional Grammar: An Interactive Book

"Traditional Grammar: An Interactive Book is a complete and free introduction to the basic syntactic structure of Modern English and the most common prescriptive errors in formal writing and how to avoid them. Approximately the first half of the book is devoted to syntactic structure. The remainder of the book is devoted to prescriptive errors and how to avoid them. "

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May 23 - Government

Abbreviations and Acronyms of the US Government

Title says it; where possible links go directly to government programs.

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May 23 - Medicine

Clinical Pharmacology 2000

Information about prescription, OTC, and investigational drugs, herbal and neutraceutical products, patient information in Spanish and English, drug interactions, more. Requires free registration.

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May 22 - Environment

Environment and Trade: a Handbook

"This handbook, a joint effort of the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the United Nations Environment Programme, is aimed mainly at those with some knowledge about trade, environment or development, but not expert on the intersection of the three." Currently available in pdf format, there will be an interactive version of the handbook in June 2000.

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May 22 - Medical

World Health Organization: Mediacentre

The latest press releases from WHO are available here, with the interface in both French and English.

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