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Hot Sites Year in Review: Useful sites.
Welcome to USATODAY.com's top Hot Site picks for 2000.
Each day this week, we'll look at a selection of the year's most
useful Hot Sites. Next week, we'll look at the year's top fun Hot
Sites, and the first week of January, we'll look at the top overall
Hot Sites of 2000.
Today: Top useful Hot Site picks from
September and October.
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Scientific
Definitions
The largest scientific dictionary ever
compiled in the English language makes the jump to cyberspace. The
Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology lets you
search more than 130,000 terms defined in 130 fields of science.
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Chefs'
Recipes
Foodscape, a food-services portal designed
with the independent restaurateur in mind, dishes out a mighty fine
reason for ordinary consumers to pay a visit. Namely, a collection
of more than 500 recipes written by chefs for chefs.
http://www.foodscape.com/ |
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Rich Literature
Database
The Electronic Literature Directory
provides a hugely satisfying collection of links to electronic
works, authors and publishers. You'll find digital sustenance from
poetry and fiction to drama and nonfiction.
http://directory.eliterature.org/ |
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Spotting People
PeopleSpot aims to be the ultimate search tool
for info about people on the Web. Links to such things as vital
records, demographics, e-mail, phone, reverse directories and
genealogy resources. http://www.peoplespot.com/ |
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Business
Links
Library of Links for Business wants to help
you find anything from an accounting firm to a PR agency. A simple
but comprehensive directory structure lets you browse through
various categories. http://www.epinc.com/index.htm |
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Newsletter
Central
Mailshell provides a convenient area to
subscribe to a wide range of e-mailed newsletters. The site also
promises to stop any junk mail with its filtering technology. A free
service. http://www.mailshell.com |
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Homebuyer's
Kit
If you're in the market for a new home and wonder
about your legal rights, the size of mortgage you can afford and how
to choose an agent, this homebuyer's kit provides answers. A
comprehensive package from the folks at the Department of Housing
and Urban Development. http://www.hud.gov/buyhome.html |
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Web
References
Xrefer — which provides free access to
more than 300,000 entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri
and books of quotations — expands with the addition of 25,000
entries from the Macmillan Encyclopedia 2001. http://www.xrefer.com/
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Our top Hot Site picks for 2000:
Top
useful Hot Sites: January and February
Top
useful Hot Sites: March, April and May
Top
useful Hot Sites: June, July and August
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Meddis. Sites are selected because they appear newsworthy — we
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