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Anne Rice

http://www.annerice.com/

Watch your neck when reading this website --- Lestat might be able to get at your jugular through the Internet. But it’s probably worth the risk, especially as this "official" website contains the New Orleans-based novelist’s moving nonfiction writings about the sadness that has fallen her beloved home town. (And how do you keep an online vampire at bay? A virtual garlic necklace? Only clicking this link during daylight hours?)

Ecoportal.net

http://ays.ecoportal.net/

In Spanish from Argentina, an environmentalist website that covers Latin America. If you are involved in some of the environmental battles ongoing in Panama, this is one place to go to get a regional perspective on what you're doing.

Harpy Eagle: WhoZoo

http://www.whozoo.org/Anlife99/coreybow/harpyeagle3.html

Do the bird, the bird, the bird bird bird --- Do the bird, the bird, the bird is the word. And the word on this particular bird is that it is now Panama’s national symbol.

Supermax Prisons

http://macarthur.uchicago.edu/supermax/

Now that torture is a notorious US government policy and a Pennsylvania prison guard doing National Guard duty at Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq and his semi-retarded girlfriend have become symbols of the policies that their superiors ordered, it becomes an opportune time to see how American society has come to this low point. A look within will show how many of the sensory deprivation techniques that are used in places like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo were pioneered in US state and federal “supermax” prisons. Human rights activists, lawyers and clerics have been pointing out abuses at such "control unit" prisons for many years now, but this time academia weighs in as well, through this subdued but eye-opening University of Chicago website.

The Sons of Liberty

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/sons.htm

Osama’s boys are absolute wimps compared to this terrorist gang. Or is it  more proper to call these guys "freedom fighters" or "concerned taxpayers?" Certainly the British government of their time would have very strenuously objected to such a rhetorical attempt to legitimize criminals as the latter terms might imply, but since then the UK has gotten over this. The passage of a few centuries has a tendency to dim old memories of tax collectors dragged from their homes and scalded with hot tea.

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Thespianism at ISP: big bad wolf, angry giant slain