Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
This site is worth a visit, but first you must fight your way through a
generous sprinkling of government acronyms to learn what ATSDR stands for,
and that it's part of the U.S. Public Health Service. The Registry works
like this: Type in the name of a substance, like fingernail polish, and
you'll get a helpful fact sheet on toluene, the toxic ingredient it contains.
This is a good stop for science students and researchers who want to learn
more about the everyday toxic substances with which we all live. -KW
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Chinese Herb and
Health
The wonderfully named Bosco Tsang of Hong Kong Baptist University would
like you to subscribe to this discussion forum on Chinese herbology and
health, and you may do so from here. There's not much else on the page except
for links to the host server and links to a couple of external pages. It
is one of the few pages currently available in English and Chinese.-KW
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Kundalini
Resource Center
Kundalini is a form of yoga that focuses on the coiled energy at the base
of the spine, and the reservoir of psychic and emotional energy to be gleaned
from its proper treatment and use. This page from a Norwegian Kundalini
practitioner serves as a primer. It contains a FAQ, a few book reviews,
a discussion area and some articles. It's all text, however. There's no
way to study the various poses and gestures used. Nor are there even descriptions
of poses. (This may be because proponents say kundalini should be supervised
by a qualified teacher.) Perhaps most useful and interesting are the related
links to numerous healing and spiritual pages. -KW
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RxList
Are you looking for drug brand names (Advil), generic names (ibuprofen)
or category names (nonsteroidal anti-flammation agent)? RxList, created
by a pharmacist, offers a searchable database of some 4,000 names. Unfortunately,
this is the entire site. It would be a real public service to go further
and link to articles pertaining to consumer use of medications. As it is,
RxList is good for comparing brand names to generic names so you can find
cheaper versions at the drugstore. There is also a page of health, medicine
and pharmaceutical links that adds to RxList's value.-KW
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The Cyberider
Cycling WWW Site
If you're into racing or off-road biking, check out Cyberider for information
on bike clubs, national events, vendors, notable cyclists, trail descriptions,
equipment, training and racing tips. There's also fiction, humor, imagery,
and even an elevation chart for Skyline Drive in Virginia. But wait, Webmaster
Steve Ciccarelli has also created a list of personal bike pages from all
over, and a full-text search of the entire site, which gives you detail
down to the level of newsgroup posting references. Steve is clearly a biking
hound, and it shows. This is a useful stop to make while you're out riding
the Web.-KW
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