Online News and Periodicals

International News

Weather, Traffic, Miscellaneous Local Info

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The Open Source Community

ONLINE NEWS AND PERIODICALS

• ABC News
• Asia Pacific Media Networks Media News and Views from the Asia Pacific
• The Associated Press
• The Baltimore Sun
• BBC News Online
• The Boston Globe
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• CBS News Online
• CNN.COM
• The Clarion News
• The Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Discover Magazine
• EurekaAlert.org; breaking news on medical and scientific discoveries (much of site available without password)
• Fox News
• The Gazette Newspapers
• The Los Angeles Times
• The Manchester Guardian
• MSNBC
• The Nation
• The New Republic
• Newsweek
• National Geographic Online
• The New York Times
• NPR National Public Radio Home Page
• The Oil City Derrick
• The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Time Magazine
• USA Today
• U.S. News and World Report
• The Wall Street Journal (editorial page)
• The Washington Post
• The Washington Times

Local broadcast media home pages

• WTOP News Radio
• WRC Channel 4 (NBC Affiliate)
• WTTG Channel 5 (Fox affiliate)
• WJLA Channel 7 (ABC affiliate)
• WUSA Channel 9 (CBS affiliate)

Foreign language periodical websites

• Berlin Online (auf Deutsch)
• El Nuevo Herald (en Español)
• France-Amérique (en Français)
• Le Figaro (en Français)

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NEWS FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE (English-language publications)

• Al Jazeera
• Athens News (Greece)
• The Australian
• Bangcock Post (Thailand)
• BBC News Online
• Belfast Telegraph (Ireland)
• The Buenos Aires Herald (Argentina)
• The Calgary Herald (Canada)
• The China Daily
• The German News
• The Guatemala Daily
• The Guadalajara Reporter (Mexico)
• Gulf Daily News (Bahrain)
• Haaretz Daily (Israel)
• The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland)
• The HindustanTimes (India)
• The International Herald Tribune (edited in France)
• News24 (South Africa)
• The Japan Times
• Mail & Guardian: Africa (Zaire)
• MercoPress: Penguin News (Falkland Islands)
• The Moscow Times
• The New Zealand Herald
• Slovak Spectator (Slovakia)
• Pravda (Russia)
• Vietnam News
  

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WEATHER, TRAFFIC, MISCELLANEOUS

• Air-Watch.net; Air-Watch.net provides real-time ozone data for the Washington DC and Baltimore Metropolitan areas
• A map of the Georgetown Prep Campus
• Class Schedules for Georgetown Prep
• Daily announcements for Georgetown Prep
  
  
• Georgetown Prep's own AWS weather station!! with our own local weather forecast
• ABC 7 First Alert Forecast for Washington DC and vicinity
• READY (Real-time Environmental Applications and Display sYstem from NOAA)
• Weather conditions for Georgetown Prep and area (from The Washington Post)
• Weather conditions for Georgetown Prep and area (from WRC TV4)
• Weather forecast for Georgetown Prep and area courtesy of Intellicast.com (includes radar, satellite imagery, watches and warnings, etc.)
• Local weather courtesy of the Weather Channel and The Home Page of the Weather Channel



• CommuterPage.com (traffic conditions for the Washington, DC area)
• DC area traffic from the Washington Post Website
• Traffic Camera at 355 and Nicholson Lane
• Traffic Camera at 355 and Tuckerman Lane



• The official U.S. time (from NIST and USNO)

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SEARCH ENGINES

• Altavista
• Ask Jeeves
• Dogpile
• Excite
• Go.com
• Google
• Hotbot
• Lycos
• NBCi.com
• Webcrawler
• Yahoo

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THE OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY

• Freezer Burn
• Freshmeat.net
• Linux.org
• Linux Terminal Server Project for Schools
• Mandrake Linux
• Mandrake Linux Security Website
• Red Hat Linux
• rpmfind.net
• Slashdot.org

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