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• Weather
• Internet Intelligence: Finding Information About People and Businesses

General Reference

• Computer dictionary -- Free Online Dictionary of Computing
• Currency Converter
• Dictionary.com
  • (On the other hand, if you need a legal dictionary, we link several on our page of Miscellaneous Law-Related Links)
• Kelley's Blue Book -- used car values
• Merriam Webster
• The Electric Library -- this is a vast "infobase" (consisting primarily of periodicals) to which you can pose queries in plain English. There is a modest fee, but you can try it for two weeks without charge.
• Federal Statistics
• Find/SVP -- real live reference librarians, who will research any reasonable question, for free!
• Internet Public Library
• The Library of Congress
• LibrarySpot -- listed as one of the best Web sites by Forbes; has links to many information resources
• Martindale's The Reference Desk -- "The best all-purpose reference source on the `Net, bar none," according to Allentown attorney Mark Albright
• The New York Public Library
• Ready Reference Collection -- from the Internet Public Library, links to thousands of valuable reference sources on the Internet
• RefDesk.com
• Research-It! -- everything from historical quotes to stock quotes
• Roget's Thesaurus
• xrefer -- "contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations from the world's leading publishers. All cross-referenced, all in one place - providing you with a single source for reliable factual information."

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• eMedicine World Medical Library -- "Instant access to the minds of medicine."
• HealthFinder -- "your free guide to reliable health information." A service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Medline-- The "world's largest biomedical database" is now free
  • Medline Plus from NIH
• National Library of Medicine (at National Institutes of Health)
• The New England Journal of Medicine

General News Links

• The Boston Globe's boston.com
• CEO Express -- a multitude of news sites, and more
• CNN
• Magazines and serials -- links from the Internet Public Library
• MSNBC -- joint venture of Microsoft and NBC
• National Public Radio
• The New York Times -- you have to register (subscribe) first, which is tedious and involves following directions carefully, but it's free. TIP: when registering, choose the option to save both your used ID and your password.
• Newspapers Online -- as the name suggests
• Newspaperlinks.com
• Online newspapers -- links from the Internet Public Library
• Reuters Online via Yahoo
• Time magazine
• USA Today
• The Wall Street Journal -- not free
• Washington Post

Pennsylvania News Links

• Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadalphia Daily News -- available through Philadelphia Online
• Philadelphia Business Journal
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• RealPittsburgh.com

See also our links to legal news (including Pennsylvania government news), and our links to sites for specific regions of Pennsylvania (on our page of Non-Legal Pennsylvania Links).

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  Office and Practice Management

• Federal Express
• LawTech -- offering Software, Hardware, & Wireless solutions for the law
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• Toll-free phone directory -- from AT&T (when we tried it, it didn't come up with PBI's number, so we can't vouch for it)
• United Parcel Service
• United States Postal Service -- a handy way to look up the nine-digit zip code for any address in the U.S.

Weather

• Penn State Department of Meteorology
• The Weather Channel
• The Weather Underground -- our new favorite
• USA Today's Weather Pages Index

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