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- When was the last time you spent a half hour exploring new places on GEnie?
- Getting out of your favorite RoundTables to look at new areas can be one of
- the nicest online experiences you can have.
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- You may think that the Whatever RoundTable doesn't have anything that would
- interest you -- which is exactly what I thought before I began exploring
- GEnie for NetSearch. For example, I don't speak German and I don't expect to
- visit Germany in the near future, so what could possibly be available in the
- Germany RoundTable that would be of interest to me? Boy, was I wrong!
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- As I explored GEnie I realized that just about every RoundTable I visited
- offered something to pique my interest. Read about what I discovered below,
- and then go exploring youself!
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- If you use Aladdin, any or all of these files can be fetched automatically
- with the Go-Fer script for July. It's available from the LiveWire and
- Aladdin Software Libraries.
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- Headlines: The Week in Germany ..................................... GERMANY
- ────────── Page 725
- As one of the most powerful nations in the world, what happens in Germany
- can reach out and impact our lives no matter where we live. Instead of
- waiting for news to filter down, you can read what's happening this week,
- every week, in the GERMANY RoundTable, courtesy of the German Information
- Center. English and German versions are available. As a side benefit,
- language students can download both versions to check their translation
- skills!
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- Menu Item 10 Download "The Week in Germany" (English)
- Menu Item 11 Download "Deutschland-Nachrichten" (Deutsch)
- (Apx 35,000 bytes)
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- Controversy: Should This Quilt Be Banned? .......................... NEEDLE
- ─────────── Page 1505
- What could be more peaceful than a quilt? The very word conjures up images
- of comfort and serenity, of snuggling in a warm bed on a cold winter's
- night. But what about a quilt titled "Amigos Muertos" (Dead Friends)
- celebrating the Day of the Dead, which was rejected as an entry in the
- National Quilt Show? Decide for yourself. Look at the quilt and then read a
- Real-Time Conference transcript with the artist, Jonathon Shannon.
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- File 1394 SHANNON.GIF Amigos Muertos, J. Shannon Quilt 245,504 bytes
- File 1439 JS-RTC01.TXT Jonathon Shannon RTC (Text) 30,848 bytes
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- Food: Interpreting Those New "Nutrition Facts" Labels ................ FOOD
- ───── Page 1150
- You see them on almost every food item you buy, those bold "Nutrition Facts"
- labels. But, what do they mean? Can they really help you decide what foods
- you want to purchase? This file, from the Food and Drug Administration,
- explains the Nutrition Facts. You'll learn the difference between pull dates
- and expiration dates, how to contact the manufacturer of the product and
- many other mysteries behind these new labels.
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- File 3969 FDA27.TXT FDA Article On New Food Labels (Text) 14,848 bytes
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- Business: Standard Industrial Codes (SIC) ............................. HOSB
- ───────── Page 370
- Did you know that every business in the United States is identified by a
- Standard Industrial Code (SIC)? Or that these codes can be far more useful
- than you would ever have believed? By using SICs, you quickly can locate
- companies in allied, or competing, industries. SICs can be used to find
- vendors, to identify customers, or to find a job in your city or far away.
- These files list all 4, 6 and 8 number SICs. While this isn't necessarily
- stimulating bedtime reading, this information can be more useful than you
- ever realized!
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- File# 5070 SICCODES.TXT Text File of SIC Codes 196,351 bytes
- File# 5071 SICCODES.ZIP ZIP File of SIC Codes 60,544 bytes
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- Newsletter: Constellations ....................................... ASTROLOGY
- ─────────── Page 1180
- One of the newest of the GEnie Newsletters is Constellations, a publication
- of the Astrology RoundTable. Under the able editorship of Jeanne Garner
- (ASTRO.NEWS) it includes articles, interviews, book reviews, software
- reviews and more. Three versions are available (text, ZIP and MS-DOS
- Hypertext) with plans for more platform-specific versions to come. Download
- the current issue of Constellations from Astrology Menu Item 8. Back issues
- are available from the ASTROLOGY and DIGIPUB (Page 1395) Software Librari
- es.
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- Menu 8: Astrology Newsletter (30,000 to 110,00 bytes depending on version)
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- Native Americans: Wotanging Ikche Newsletter .......................... WEST
- ───────────────── Page 1065
- Wotanging Ikche is a newsletter devoted to current events concerning Native
- Americans in general which promotes Native American activities on GEnie. It
- is a "gift to Brothers and Sisters of the Invisible Band, and all Native
- Americans on GEnie." The most current issue, as LiveWire went to press, is
- shown below. To locate others, search in the WEST, MIDWEST or EAST
- RoundTable Libraries on the terms Wotanging or Ikche.
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- File 3015 NANEWS02.022 Native American Newsletter Text 77,892 bytes
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- Sports: Online Magazine Covers Baseball ............................. SPORTS
- ─────── Page 215
- If everything in your house stops when the batter steps up to the plate,
- then you can enhance your enjoyment of the sport by visiting the Sports
- RoundTable and downloading Online Drive, their baseball magazine. The May
- issue is shown below. Search on the term Online in the Sports Library to
- locate back issues. Then join discussions on your favorite teams in the
- Sports Bulletin Board!
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- File 3601 0510ONLN.ZIP May '94 Edition of OnLine Drive (text) 28,160 bytes
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- Reference: United States Daily Newspapers .......................... WRITERS
- ────────── Page 440
- Want to track down an old friend? Research a city before visiting or moving
- there? Search for a business partner? Send out a press release on your
- product? Find outlets for your writing? These are but a few of the many
- reasons you'll want this listing of nearly 2,000 U.S. daily newspapers. It's
- a great reference tool for writers, non-profit organizations, and small
- business owners. The comma delimited format allows importing into most
- databases or contact managers with little or no editing.
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- File# 5593 DAILY.ZIP U.S. Daily Newspapers (Text) 39,552 bytes
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- History: The World of War ............................................... PF
- ──────── Page 545
- Has war really changed? What can we learn from the world of the past? Can
- the secrets of the oldest military treatise in the world help you win when
- playing CyberStrike? "Sun Tzu on the Art of War" is a fascinating document
- that illustrates what has changed, and what hasn't changed, over the course
- of history. The file was translated from the Chinese by Lionel Giles, M.A.,
- assistant in the Department of Oriental Printed Books at the British Museum.
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- File 4965 SUNZZU10.ZIP Sun Tzu on the Art of War Text 141,056 bytes
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