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Very useful family web sites

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SEARCH ENGINES

Infoseek
Webcrawler
Yahoo

 

FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD NEEDS

How to do anything.
Helpful house hints.
More helpful house hints.
Better Homes & Gardens
Homesick Gourmet
Martha Stewart
Betty Crocker Recipe's
Birder Home Page
Do It Yourself
Home Improvement
Restaurant Surveys
City guide networks
More city guide networks.
New stuff, dirt cheap.
 

NUTRITION

Sources -- Sites offering a variety of food supplements
Glyco-nutrition science -- scientific studies of the effects of eating glycogenic food supplements
 

MEDICAL

Family medicine at the national institutes of health.
Family medicine - Canadian
Mayo Clinic
American Medical Association
Columbia University Medical Education
Medical search
Search for Clinical Trials - The trials designed to evaluate drugs and medical procedures, are being conducted at more than 4000 locations. Most are paid for by the National Institutes of Health.
Drug Index
Elderly health care
Glaucoma -- The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary provides information on new treatments.
Medicare -- medical, filing, and legal information

 

GARDENING

Problem solving

The Garden Gate

Earl the yard-care answer guy

Armchair gardener

Gardenweb

 

COOL WEB SITES

Pointcast for news junkies
Nifty ideas on anything
Radio on your PC
Nearly free software

PEOPLE LOCATOR

Bigfoot
The informantsearch engine at Dartmouth College
Look-up a person
Finding people on the net -- provides telephone numbers
Who where -- search engine
Classmates
 
CARDS OF ALL TYPES
Blue Mountain
Hallmark
 
AIRLINE TRAVEL SERVICES
Travelocity
Best Fares
Reservation desk
Business travel
Ticket Auction -- at Priceline
 
JOBS
Monster job board
Headhunter
Government
Jobs anywhere
How to get
Research employers
 
COLLEGES -- PREPARATION
Sat, Gre, Test application, Schools
College Board online
Comparing colleges
 
HIGH SCHOOL HANGOUT
Student Webzine "IE" a webzine for high school students about how personal beliefs impact the way they view social questions from a Christian worldview.
 
COOL KID STUFF
Kids Hangout -- Disney
Discovery News Online
Aesop's Fables online
Bedtime stories
Joseph Wu's Origami
 
REFERENCE AND RESEARCH
Kennedy Space Center
NASA home page
Ask a NASA scientist -- an astronomer
Universe-space science -- served by University of Michigan
Atlas of the world
National Geographic
Britannica encyclopedia online
Britannica Internet Guide
Library of Congress
CIA World Fact Book
IRS -- the internal revenue service
Information Please
Park locator by LL Bean catalog
Jackson County
Oregon
 
MAPS AND DRIVING
Best scenic drives
Speedtraps
Wacky side trips
Best greasy spoons
More greasy spoons
 
AUTOMOBILE PRICING
Edmonds
Carsmart
Kelly Blue Book
 
GENEALOGY
Cindi's List
First
Bureau of the Census
Genealogy
National Genealogy Site
 
NET BASICS
Net lingo
Internet reference
Internet services
Senior computer training site