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Tuesday, 22nd March 2005

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Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Automobile Travel--Fuel Costs
Source: AAA
AAA Fuel Cost Calculator
"Calculate the estimated fuel cost of your trip" based on current gasoline prices. Choose your starting point, destination, make/model/year of vehicle from dropdown menus and click "Calculate." Map on page shows current day's average fuel costs in different regions of the country.
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Health Information
New Topic Page/Compilation from MEDLINEPlus
Source: NLM
+ Heart Surgery
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Medicinal Plants
Source: Science Reference Service, Library of Congress
Medicinal Plants
"This Tracer Bullet has been compiled to assist researchers in navigating the databases, electronic resources and print materials related to medicinal plants and to locate relevant materials in the Library's collections. Lists of other agencies, institutions, and organizations are provided as starting points for further study. Not intended to be a comprehensive bibliography, this guide is designed--as the name of the series implies--to put the reader 'on target.'"
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Undergraduate Education--Statistics
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
Trends in Undergraduate Career Education
"This Issue Brief examines trends in undergraduate credentials (certificates, associate's degrees, and bachelor's degrees) in career-related areas of study. These trends are examined at both the subbaccalaureate and baccalaureate levels, from 1984-85 to 2000-01. The number of undergraduate credential awards increased over this period, in both academic and career areas, and at both the subbaccalaureate and baccalaureate levels."
Full Report (PDF; 79 KB)
Supplementary Graphs (PDF; 29 KB)
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Topics in the News
Source: Findlaw
Terri Schiavo Case: Legal Issues Involving Healthcare Directives, Death, and Dying
Various document including legal filings.

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