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The Real Roots of Arab Anti-Americanism
Barry Rubin, Director of the Global Research in International Affairs        Center and Editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs provides an insightful look at what drives Arab and Muslim hatred of the United States. Rather than the a reaction to misguided U.S.
policies, Rubin proposes the rise of anti-americanism is largely the product of self-interested manipulation by various groups within Arab society that use anti-Americanism as a foil to distract public attention from other, far more serious problems within those societies.

The Perfect Swarm
Agent-based modeling allows researchers to create artificial worlds that model activity in the natural world.....Swarm based agent systems are providing insight into software systems that mimic ant behavior, using many small, autonomous software agents. Each acting on the simplest of rules, these agents together do not rely on complex, centralized logic but  together can solve problems that are enormously complex when viewed as a whole. 

The Canadian West
This Web exhibition includes over 200 pictures, maps, and documents on European exploration and settlement of Western Canada, from the 1600s to 1930. Published by the National Archives of Canada, the materials features the effects of European immigration on indigenous peoples of Canada. There are three major sections: Anticipation, Contact, and Accommodation. Anticipation contains early maps, primarily from the eighteenth century, that show European cartographers' best guesses at the lay of the new land. Indian treaty medals and photographs of students at Indian industrial schools in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are some of the illustrations in the Contact section. In Accommodation, see items documenting the urbanization and industrialization of Canada, such as a map of Tuxedo Park, a proposed development of Winnipeg, and road maps from the 1920s. Visitors can choose to browse the collection by media type, year, or title by clicking the Index. There are also links to related Websites, a reading list, and a Thematic Research Guides link, which leads to databases of genealogical information and patent letters from ArchiviaNet, the National Archives online research tool

Quadrennial Defense Review, 2001 [.pdf]
 Every four years, the military issues the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) Report, a document that is key in setting military goals and priorities. The next QDR is due next year in 2005. This most recent 79-page report  is divided into seven main sections (e.g., Defense Strategy, Revitalizing the DoD Establishment) and includes a statement by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The report explains that, "Even before the attack of September 11, 2001, the senior leaders of the Defense Department set out to establish a new strategy for America's defense that would embrace uncertainty and contend with surprise, a strategy premised on the idea that to be effective abroad, America must be safe at home." In the service of that new strategy, the QDR outlines DoD's  four main policy objectives: to assure allies and friends of the US' steadfastness and military capability, to dissuade adversaries from undertaking programs potentially threatening to the US, to deter threats by increasing "the capacity to swiftly defeat attacks and impose severe penalties for  aggression," and when deterrence fails, to decisively defeat any adversary. A central objective of this review was to shift the basis of defense planning. The report explains that overall the strategy seeks to move the US military "from a 'threat-based' model that has dominated thinking in the past to a  'capabilities-based' model for the future." 

World Biodiversity Database v2.1
The World Biodiversity Database, provided by the Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI), seeks to "document all presently known species (about 1.7 million) and to make this important biological information worldwide accessible." This continually growing database "provides taxonomic information, species names, synonyms, descriptions, illustrations and literature references when available" on 200,000 taxa. The searchable database can be explored using an expandable tree of the five taxonomic kingdoms or by typing in a common or scientific name. Both educators and students should find this site easy to navigate, informative, and useful.

Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950
At the heart of this new site from the Library of Congress American Memory series features correspondence between Woody Guthrie and staff of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center) at the Library of Congress are  The featured 53 items (84 pages) of material by, about, and to Woody Guthrie were penned mostly in the early 1940s. The collection provides "reflections on [Woody Guthrie's] past, his art, his life in New York City, and the looming Second World War. . . ." Materials on this site are part of the Woody Guthrie Manuscript Collection and the American Folklife Center. Along with the letters themselves, the site also features a well organized finding aid to give users an overview of all Guthrie archival materials at the Library of Congress, a biographical sketch, and a timeline of Guthrie's life.

The Glossarist
Visitors may search this comprehensive directory, which offers a one-stop glossary shopping, where shoppers may browse for a glossary by  topic (and then category) covering over 4,500 glossaries, 679 of which have been cataloged into 130 categories. For example, the Arts and Culture section includes general glossaries as well as those for animation, cartoons, architecture, dance, film, fine arts, and five other categories. Some, but not all of the entries include a brief description. Sample keyword searches came out fairly well, with four returns for
"mythology," four for "baking," and eight for "Islam." 

Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada
Sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, Business Archives Section, The fifth edition of Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada was placed online in early July. This is an excellent reference resource for business historians and researchers, the directory may be browsed alphabetically by name of the corporation. There also (non-hyperlinked) geographical and archivists indexes.
Archive entries include contact information, conditions of access, holdings, and a description.

A Classification of American Wealth
Drew Caradine Shouter, a pseudonymous writer and historian who specializes in wealth accumulation and society in the United States, is writing this online book-in-progress. The work is a genealogy and history of the wealthiest families in US history, covering years 1675 through the mid 1800's. Future chapters promise to cover the 20th century featuring Internet billionaires. Topics explored include manor lords, planters and aristocrats, shipping merchants, New York City landlords, early industrialists and railroad barons.

Rich Broadband Online Art Exhibition
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents a compelling interactive look at fifteen works of modern art, complete with artists' biographies, critiques by historians and poets, and QuickTime movies of the artists themselves. Titled, Art as Experiment, Art as Experience, the presentation  provides visitors with the richest possible online exploration of  selected works from the Anderson Collection through audio and video clips, a zoom function that allows users to inspect artworks in detail, and an intuitive interface with animated navigational tools. Flash and QuickTime Plugin required.

Stalking the Common Mosquito -- and a Deadly Virus 
Andrew Spielman -- a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and author of Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most
Persistent and Deadly Foe -- has traveled the world tracking the West Nile-bearing mosquitoes. This mosquito-borne disease is changing urban life in the Northeast of the U.S. 
--Listen to NPR's John Nielsen's story.
--Listen to Fresh Air host Terry Gross interview Andrew Spielman about the Mosquito