Internet Sites

bowienet
You may know him best as the frontman for the Electric Spiders from Mars way back when, or more currently as probably the richest rock musician, but it's best to recall his reminder, to all of us, that we could be heroes. Anyway, this is David Bowie's beautiful official web page, with music, wonderful graphics and more.

Campaign for Access to Essential Medicine
Paris-based Doctors Without Borders (MSF, by its French initials) began this campaign before the anthrax scare made a lot of people in the developed countries think about whether the drugs they need will be available when the epidemic sweeps through. For many people in many places, this issue isn't just an esoteric terror. As MSF points out, part of the problem is that even in rich countries medicines for rare diseases, or ailments related to poverty, are not profitable enough to prompt the profit-based pharmaceutical industry to work on cures or treatments.

Johns Hopkins University's Center for Civilian
If knowledge is prevention, this may be the place to go. But then, it may do nothing at all to relieve your sense of alarm.

NetSERF
A fairly comprehensive set of links to sites about Medieval times.

New Seven Wonders of the World Society
This page, published in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Japanese, is first of all to promote the cause of preserving historical, cultural and architectural landmarks. They're also conducting an international poll aimed at identifying the seven most outstanding landmarks of the Common Era. Alas, the Panama Canal is not on the ballot.