Links:

Below is a collection of links, some discovered and others extracted from other sites on the web.  We hope you will find them useful.  Please note that we are not responsible for their content.  Proceed at your own risk.
 
 

Financial and Related  
National Information Center (NIC) of Banking Information
EDGAR Database (financial data for every publicly-traded company)
Worldwide Listing of Banks
MSN Money
CFO.com (and CFO magazines)
Calculators (e.g., Currency, Mortgage, Retirement, Lease/Buy, 401(k)) (Bloomberg.com)
Online Conversion ("Convert just about anything to anything else")
Universal Currency Converter (World)
Forbes
Forbes Lists (e.g., World's Richest People)
Fortune
All Fortune Lists (e.g., Fortune 500)

 

"Top Ten" Most Useful Consumer Health Websites

The Medical Library Association has found the following web sites particularly useful (sites are listed in alphabetical, NOT ranked, order):

• Cancer.gov
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Familydoctor.org
• Healthfinder
• HIV InSite
• Kidshealth ®
• Mayo Clinic
• MEDEM: an information partnership of medical societies
• MEDLINEplus ( English | Spanish )
• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health

Consumer and Patient Health Information Section: useful list of links to specialized and general health information.

Today's Consumer Health News: 

Medline Latest Consumer News
CNN Health News
New York Times Health
FDA News

Statistics
City-Data.Com (Stats about all U.S. Cities)
InternetWorldStats.com (World Internet Usage Statistics & Population Stats)
FedStats (statistics from more than 100 Federal agencies)
International Statistics: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/inter-natlinks/sd_intstat.htm

Dictionaries & Other Similar References
American Heritage Reference Collection (Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus)
Law.com Law Dictionary
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary & Thesaurus (and Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Internet
Federal Internet Guide (Washington Post)
World Maps & Information

News Of The World
BBC News
BBC Broadband Video News
CNN Video
Barron's Online
CBSNews.com (CBS I-Video)
CNN.com
C-SPAN: Watch LIVE
C-SPAN: Current Schedule
Drudge
ESPN.com
FOXNews.com
Google News
Los Angeles Times
London Times
Myway.com
New York Times
USA Today
VOAnews.com
VOA TV News & Videos
Wall Street Journal
OpinionJournal (WSJ.com)
Washington Post
washingtonpost.com—Camera Works (Videos)
Yahoo! News - Politics

Education and Development
An international perspective on fostering reading development: http://timss.bc.edu/pirls2001.html
http://www.alphaplus.ca/opnhs/english/SiteList.asp?IndNm=590
Study-Abroad Programs: http://www.inter-ed.com/