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Health

Alternative Health News Online
America's Health Rankings
American Medical Association
CalorieKing
Diet and weight loss.
Clinical Trials
Drugs @ FDA
emedicine (Consumer Health)
First-Aid Guide (Mayo Clinic)
Healthfinder
Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products
Influenza Prevention and Control
MayoClinic
MEDLINEplus
Medscape
The Merck Manual
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health
The New Medicine
Nutrition.gov
OpenMD
Pauling Nutrition
Prescribers' Digital Reference
RxList
StatPearls Library
SummerTomato
Tips on healthy eating.
Symptom Checker (Mayo Clinic)
Testing.com
Zen Habits
Blog covering how to simplify life, living frugally, parenting, motivation, eating healthily, etc.

Humanities

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
EDSITEment
Resources for teachers and students. NEH
History Channel
Institute for the Future of the Book
National Film Preservation Foundation
Noam Chomsky's ZSpace Page
PBS Online
PhilPapers: Online
Online research in philosophy
ScriptSearch
Smarthistory
Multimedia web-book about art and art history.
Virtual Religion Index
World History Compass
Provides categorized links to hundreds of history sites on the Web.

Internet

Law

Boston Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service
Copyright and Fair Use
Stanford University
Copyright Law Materials
FindLaw
Guide to Law Online
Law Library of Congress
Intellectual Property Law
Internet Law Library
Internet Legal Resource Guide
Law/legal resources (Refdesk.com)
LawGuru.com
Legal Information Institute
Cornell Law School
Legislative Tracking System
Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
Patent Law
Cornell University
Patent Law Links
Patents
The Forum for Massachusetts Law
The U.S. Code
Thomas
World Court Digest
From the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Libraries

News

Al Jazeera English
Middle Eastern based news bringing topics to light that often go under-reported.
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
BBC.com
Boston.com (Boston Globe)
C-Span
News about Congress, White House, & Courts
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CNN
EuroNews
Foreign Language News and Magazines
New England Cable News
NewPages.com
independants
NewsLink
Reuters
Science Daily
News & articles in the sciences.
Small Town Papers
Techmeme
Essential tech news of the moment.
Today's Front Pages
Topix
UN Wire
free registration is required
UPI (United Press International)
Voice of America
ZDNet

People

A&E Biography
Academy of Achievement
"Extraordinary individuals who have shaped the twentieth century"
Authors on the Web
Biographical Dictionary
China Vitae
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Portrait Gallery - (United Kingdom)
Portraits of famous British men and women.
Nobel e-museum
The Pulitzer Prizes
World of Scientific Biography

Politics

Federal Lobby Directory
Initiative & Referendum Institute
League of Women Voters of Massachusetts
Legislatures Live!
Broadcasts and webcasts of floor proceedings and committee hearings
Opensecrets.org
The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics.
PACronyms
Political Information.com
Politics: NPR
Polling places in Massachusetts
SourceWatch
directory of think tanks, experts, etc.
The Political Graveyard
Source on U.S. political biographies.

Publishing

Alternative Press Center Online Directory
directory of alternative and radical publications
Association of American University Presses
Who Owns What
Columbia Journalism Review's guide to what the major media companies own.
Writer's Digest - Write Better, Get Published

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