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International Dunhuang Project (IDP) Interactive Database
http://idp.bl.uk/
The IDP was founded in 1994 to coordinate efforts among holders,
conservators, and researchers of material from Dunhuang, a Buddhist library
cave discovered in 1900 near the Silk Road oasis town of Dunhuang on the
edge of the Gobi Desert. This new online database from the British Library
is both a catalog and image bank, containing text details of over 20,000
pre-eleventh-century manuscripts in Chinese, Tibetan, and other Central
Asian languages, and images of over 1,000 of the documents (summary from
the Scout Report) --indexed under Asia and under History.
Women's Health Information Center
http://www.ama-assn.org/special/womh/womh.htm
JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, has created a
peer-reviewed site which offers women and their physicians the latest
information from medical literature, top stories about women's health,
a email notification service, and a search function for the site. --
indexed under Women's Issues.
Polinurus--Higher Education and Business
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/liu/palinurus/index2.html
...created by humanities scholars to examine the practical and
intellectual challenges faced by higher education in a post-industrial
world. In today's "information society," "knowledge work" in the business
and academic worlds have begun to merge. As any tenured or aspiring
academic will tell you, pressures on university departments to downsize and
restructure have never been greater, and academia now ignores the lessons
and laws of the business world at its own peril... (summary from the
Scout Report) --indexed under Higher Education.
Van Gogh's Van Goghs
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/vginfo.htm
New online Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery of Art --
indexed under Art.
Abuse of the Elderly, a study
http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/abuse/report/default.htm
This first-ever National Elder Abuse Incidence Study brings a severely under-reported
problem out of the shadows. This study estimates that at least one-half million older
persons in domestic settings were abused and/or neglected, or experienced self neglect
during 1996, and that for every reported incident of elder abuse, neglect or self neglect,
approximately five go unreported. --indexed under Aging and Statistics.