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		Black History Exhibits Celebrate Black History Month with a visit to this AFRO-Americ@ site that offers exhibits on topics ranging from resistance during slavery and the Tuskegee airmen to the Black Panther Party and Jackie Robinson. http://www.afroam.org/history/

		New Media Channel Who watches the watchers? Media Channel is giving it a try. The launch of the self-described Internet supersite dedicated to the global media got a boost from journalism icon Walter Cronkite. http://www.mediachannel.org/

		Fishy Encyclopedia On the Internet, every dog has its day. And now, every fish, too. FishBase is billed as a global information system on everything you ever wanted to know about our aquatic friends. Includes a way-cool "biodiversity quiz." http://www.fishbase.org/

		Hubble Reopens For Business Mark the return of the Hubble Telescope with a pictorial tour at this Eye on the Universe site. Suitable for online meditation purposes. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/2000/07/

		Bad Cookie Sick and tired of those syncophantic fortune cookies you've gotten all your life? Bad Cookie doesn't pull any prognosticating punches. http://www.badcookie.com/

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