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- Information Superhighway may be the buzzword of the media, but we're the
- ones with the modems! Let yours take you down GEnie's off-ramps and rest
- stops to this month's headline news. It varies from the delightful Legend
- of Shamu to important environmental issues and a series of papers written
- by the founding fathers of the United States. These stories and more are
- precisely what I found on my excursions through GEnie.
-
- A last minute entry to GEnie's stretch of the Information Highway is a
- series of Bulletin Board messages posted a week BEFORE the devastating
- earthquake that hit Los Angeles -- messages that actually predicted that
- quake to the day and even the hour!
-
- Read on! You'll be surprised at the sparkling information and electronic
- gems I found this month! Don't forget to grab my March Go-Fer script so
- Aladdin can whisk in and get the files you want automatically. It's
- available in the LiveWire and Aladdin Libraries.
-
-
- Do You Know: The Legend of Shamu ................................ EAST
- ─────────── Page 1470
- From ages past in the icy North comes a tale of killer whales, how they
- befriended man even while ruling the sea. Today, the story lives on in
- "The Legend of Shamu" at Sea World. Don't miss this fascinating tribute to
- "the wolf of the sea."
-
- File# 185 LEGEND.SW 3,780 bytes (Text File)
-
-
- Headlines: AIDS Statistics from CDC ............................. MEDICAL
- ───────── Page 745
- The Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a comprehensive
- report of AIDS case data at the end of 1993. This report presents data for
- cases and deaths by state, metropolitan area, and city for the past two
- years. Included is a statistical breakdown of methods of contraction and
- documented health care worker cases. The numbers are alarming and growing
- larger each year. This report will not be the last of its kind.
-
- File# 1508 AIDS9311.TXT 97,280 Cumulative AIDS data report (Text)
- File# 1509 AIDS9311.ZIP 21,632 Cumulative AIDS report (compress Text)
- File# 1507 AIDSDIRS.TXT 18,432 Directors of AIDS programs (Text)
-
-
- Issues: Gore Proposes Telecommunications Reform ............... WHITEHOUSE
- ─────── Page 1600
- Keep up with everything the White House and Vice President Gore are doing
- in their new push for telecommunications technology reform with these
- White House releases. Every week, the White House makes all sorts of
- information available electronically -- information that you'll find at
- the White House RoundTable! Read all about the administration's push for
- the Information SuperHighway and other presidential events.
-
- File# 1048 W1375.TXT 19,456 Background on Telecomm Reform
- File# 1047 W1374.TXT 4,480 VP Proposes Telecommunications Reform
- File# 1046 W1373.TXT 3,712 Telecommunications Policy Reform
-
-
- Environment: Electronic Journal From GreenDisk ........................ PF
- ─────────── Page 545
- The GreenDisk Paperless Environmental Journal features articles and alerts
- for environmental concerns, papers from noted activist organizations, and
- related information. This group of files includes an MSDOS-compatible
- program to search the articles by keyword, but the articles in this
- paperless journal are plain text which can be read by any system if your
- UnZip utility can skip the special header in the IBM executable portion.
- Mine could, and I was treated to LOADS of solid information!
-
- File# 4631 GD1#5IBM.EXE 290,420 bytes (Compressed 'Zip' Texts)
-
-
- Politics: Pournelle draws an alternative to left vs. right ........ JERRYP
- ──────── Page 245
- This is an electronic reprint of a column by author Jerry Pournelle in
- which he discusses how the 'left' and 'right' of our political tradition
- isn't bipolar at all, and can be replaced by another model. A fascinating
- read.
-
- File# 1016 JP_2-AXES_MATRIX.TXT 9,984 bytes (Text file)
-
-
- Background: The Federalist Papers - Founding Documents ................ PF
- ────────── Page 545
- Project Gutenberg presents the Federalist Papers: 85 articles that make up
- the basis of our government's inception, written by the people who founded
- the United States of America. These intriguing discussions and debates
- were penned by Madison, Hamilton and others, and the full texts of these
- historic papers are included in total.
-
- File# 4661 FEDRLST.ZIP 463,360 bytes (Compressed Text File)
-
-
- Employment: Job Trends Documents released from Government ...... WORKPLACE
- ────────── Page 1410
- This file contains the November 1993 Bureau of Labor Statistics forecast
- of labor trends and growth patterns through the year 2005, taking into
- account economic growth, the labor force, and employment by occupation and
- industry. They are used widely for studying long-range economic and
- employment trends, planning education and training programs, and
- developing career information. Where will YOUR job be after the turn of
- the century?
-
- File# 4672 JOBSTATS.TXT 20,480 bytes (Text File)
-
-
- Home Entertainment: Dishcetera Magazine for Satellite TV Dishes ...... CE
- ─────────────────── Page 346
- Here's a State-of-the-Industry electronic publication for State-of-the-Art
- technology in home entertainment. You'll read about what's happening in
- satellite TV, and what the FCC is or isn't trying to do this month. This
- monthly publication is enough to make me wish I had a satellite dish!
-
- File# 4849 DISH0194.TXT 31,744 bytes (Text File)
- File# 4819 DISH1293.TXT 41,856 bytes (Text File)
-
-
- Education: Daily Report Card Education Newsletter ................... ERT
- ───────── Page 405
- Parents and educators can get a first-hand view on the state of education
- in the U.S. with this daily electronic journal. Published by educational
- professionals, it's a capsulized look at what's happening in our schools,
- and what needs to be happening. You'll find issues uploaded every day to
- our own Education RoundTable!
-
- File# 1185 D940128 13,952 bytes (Text File)
- File# 1184 D940127 15,360 bytes (Text File)
- File# 1183 D940126 18,304 bytes (Text File)
- File# 1182 D940125 11,136 bytes (Text File)
- File# 1181 D940124 16,896 bytes (Text File)
-
-
- Business: Productivity report from US Department of Labor .......... HOSB
- ──────── Page 370
- Review the Bureau of Labor Statistics report about productivity movements
- for the past year in several key industries from the actual document!
- Issued in late 1993, this particular report calculates productivity and
- output in U.S. industries.
-
- File# 4677 PRODUCTV.TXT 57,728 bytes (Text File)
- File# 4676 PRODUCTV.ZIP 14,592 bytes (Compressed Text File)
-
-
- Food: Legendary Amish, Mennonite & Shaker Recipes ................... FOOD
- ──── Page 1150
- Enjoy classic American ethnic dishes from some of the best kitchens in old
- Americana. Warm meals, known for their taste and wholesomeness, are in
- this collection of great recipes you can bring to your family and guests.
- Don't forget that some of the best secrets in cooking are those you share!
- Whether you use the "Master Cook II" program or not, the recipes
- themselves are readable as text. Gutten Appetite!
-
- File# 3310 AMISH.MXP 17,792 (Text File)
- File# 3327 AMISH1A.MXP 35,584 (Text File)
- File# 3384 SHAKER.TXT 21,888 (Text File)
-
-
- Reference: Ready Reference Charts ................................. FAMILY
- ───────── Page 1235
- At your fingertips, this collection of handy reference charts includes
- area and ZIP codes, the bill of rights, the U.S. Constitution, signs of
- the Zodiac, abbreviations for U.S. States and Territories, and other
- oft-needed information.
-
- File# 1071 READYREF.ZIP 29,312 bytes (Compressed Text)
-
-
- Forecast: Los Angeles Earthquake Predicted Online ............. ASTROLOGY
- ──────── Page 1180
- The early morning shaker that woke up most of Southern California in
- January had been discussed and predicted -- a week ahead of time -- in the
- ASTROLOGY Bulletin Board! Read archived messages detailing the reasons for
- it, and how astrologers made the prediction. Earthquake prediction by ANY
- means remains inconclusive, but the Astrology RoundTable folks pegged this
- one!
-
- File# 536 QUAKPRED.TXT 9,472 (Text File)
-
-
- Gardening: Your 1994 Gardening Calendar & Checklist ............... GARDEN
- ───────── Page 1495
- No more realizing a month AFTER, that you were supposed to put out your
- bedding plants or fertilized your lawn. This Gardener's Calendar spells
- out gardening and landscaping tasks, month by month. I usually remember
- that I should have planted flowers in my front yard when the neighbor's
- yard suddenly looks colorful. Not this time...
-
- File# 113 GARDCALN.TXT 21,248 (Text File)
-
-
- Fun: A New Card Game Just For You ............................... SCORPIA
- ─── Page 805
- Do your friends and family enjoy sitting around a table playing cards?
- Pecking Order is a new card game for four players. Earn the title "Boss"
- or be relegated to "Peon" if you're last. Instructions for playing this
- fun new game by R. A. Casper can be downloaded from Scorpia's Games
- Library. Break out the cards and score sheet, but move everything
- breakable away from the table!
-
- File# 7041 PECKINGO.ZIP 5,248 (Compressed Text File)
-