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Tuesday, 20th November 2001

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Almanacs
Reference Newsletters
The World Almanac And Book of Facts 2002 Hits Bookstores, Free Newsletter Available to All
One of the essential ready reference tools is now available in both virtual and bricks and mortar bookstores. This Amazon.Com entry allows you to preview 88 pages from the book. Pure bliss for the reference geek!
---Did You Know? The World Almanac publishes a FREE monthly e-mail newsletter? Each month you'll receive info about that particular month including notable birthdays, "on this day" history, chronology of events, and a set of useful urls. This link also provides access to all newsletters from 2001.
See Also: Learn About the History of The World Almanac

Winter Olympics 2002
Debut of Official Winter Olympics 2002 Sites
All three "Official Sites" are joint ventures between Microsoft, NBC Television, and the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee. From the article, "Microsoft's MSN network and MSNBC.com, the joint venture between Microsoft and General Electric's NBC, are now responsible for hosting the Web sites and creating all of the content and services that will be available online, [Perkins] Miller says. The Web properties managed by Microsoft and NBC are online at NBCOlympics.Com and SaltLake2002.com. For the first time, the Olympic Committee's official site at Olympics.com will also fall under the management of the Microsoft-NBC venture.
Notes:
Each site is a "gateway" for content targeted to a particular audience.
Olympics.Com site includes French language content.
Olympics News Alerts provide real-time delivery of news and results.
See Also: International Olympic Committee Official Site

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered (3 Items)
Yearbooks--United Kingdom
Source: National Statistics
UK 2002 - The Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The entire yearbook can be viewed or downloaded from this url for FREE!!! This page also includes a link to download all tables in Microsoft Excel format.
Entire Document 577 pages .pdf
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Higher Education--United States--Salaries
Chronicle Of Higher Educaton Salary Survey
Salary data for most institutions. Searchable database, lists, and tables. Data back to 1996.
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Energy--United States--Statistics
Source: EIA
State Electricity Profiles 1999

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