LINKS TO THE INTERNET from Capital Community College Hartford, Connecticut

Issues '96, The New York Times on the Web and National Public Radio examine five key policy areas: Money, Community, World, Rights and Safety, probing such issues as welfare, terrorism, immigration and privacy. Central to the project are the online forums, discussion areas designed to facilitate a national dialog among participants and forum hosts..
AllPolitics, from CNN and Time Magazine.
American Voter96, from Congressional Quarterly.
Election Connections, from Atlantic Monthly.
ElectNet, where you can track incumbents' and challengers' voting records, etc.
FECInfo, Federal Election Commission shows where campaign $$$ comes from.
George Magazine, John F. Kennedy Jr.'s magazine
Mojo Wire, with the best investigative reporting on the net, from Mother Jones Magazine.
Roll Call, also from Congressional Quarterly.
Vote Smart Web
The Washington Weekly

While we're thinking politically here, if you'd like to find and mail your Congressperson or Senator, use ZIPPER, which not only gives you the names and addresses of your representatives in government, but provides three different ways of reaching them. (There is a charge for some of these ways, but the email is free, of course.)

The New York Times Syndicate offers Your Health Daily, a daily newsletter on health issues.

The Bodleian Library has a new resource based on a collection of motoring and transport images from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.

GIST has everything you could possibly want in connection with America's favorite pastime -- watching television.

Check out the giant tortoises and other neat animals at Terraquest's Virtual Galapagos, one of the most delightful uses of the World Wide Web we've seen. Terraquest also offers a virtual journey to Antarctica and a climb up El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park. Another page for armchair explorers is the new site for The National Geographic Society, which provides an online version of their famous magazine--not the same thing, but adapted nicely to the World Wide Web.

Picasso and Portraiture is a fabulous glimpse (with many online images) into the exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. Scientific American has joined the legion of established magazines now publishing full-text articles on the internet. SciAm has several features worth exploring. The National Endowment for the Arts now has a page that's rich with links to arts resources, calendars, etc.

HEALTHWORLD Online provides a new place for you to discover vast resources of information on conventional and alternative health disciplines. Most of the material is free, but some requires a fee. Healthworld is still under construction, but there is enormous promise here. Try their Quick'Ndex to find Medline.

Before you go out and buy anything, check out the product reviews at ProductReviewNet, a vast compendium of thousands of reviews from all over the place.

We will list the World Directory of Think Tanks here because we can't figure out where else to put it. This site is maintained by the National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA) and has a lot of very useful information.

Interested in Human Rights, and on a global scale? Peruse the home-page of Amnesty International, including links to its reports on violations of human rights, world-wide, and to its Urgent Action Network. Links are provided here, also, to other Human Rights organizations. For a look at how this works on a campus level, we recommend Georgia Tech's page devoted to AI and world-wide political consciousness.

The Wilderness Society and a site for Greenpeace International will keep you on your ecological toes. Alternet is a useful compendium of "alternative" resources, and EnviroWeb provides dozens of connections to environmental studies, etc. EnviroNet, sponsored by Simmons College in Boston, provides links to various monitoring projects.

For poets, Emily Dickinson recommends the Contemporary American Poetry Achive (CAPA) maintained at Connecticut College by Wendy Battin and Charles Hartmann, the Internet Poetry Archive Page at the University of North Carolina.

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