Internet Sites Selected for the Readers of Duke University Libraries
Your Disease Risk

www.yourdiseaserisk.wustl.edu
This useful site, created by the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention and now hosted by the Washington University School of Medicine, allows users to determine their potential risks for various cancers, diabetes, osteoporosis, heart disease, and strokes by answering a few questions. Another section [...]

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The Pew Center on the States: Trends to Watch
http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/trends.aspx

Change is upon us, both at the Libraries—as this issue of the magazine relates—and in the United States. To provide some insight into the nature of future national and state issues, the Pew Center on the States has [...]

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24-Nation Pew Global Attitudes Survey
http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/260.pdf
The Pew Global Attitudes Project, conducted by the Pew Research Center, “is a series of worldwide public opinion surveys that encompasses a broad array of subjects ranging from people’s assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state [...]

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Amazing Grace
http://memory.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/html/grace/grace-home.html
The Library of Congress has created a website devoted to the history of the hymn “Amazing Grace” and the Library’s Chasanoff/Elozua Amazing Grace Collection, which comprises 3,049 published recordings of the hymn by different musicians or musical ensembles. This site is a joint venture [...]

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Cartoon America: A Library of Congress Exhibition
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/cartoonamerica/
From childhood, James Arthur Wood Jr. collected original cartoon art and then became an editorial cartoonist himself. He eventually donated his collection of over 36,000 original cartoon drawings to the Library of Congress. From that collection, [...]

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Annie Oakley [requires RealPlayer]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/oakley/index.html
For those who still think of Annie Oakley as portrayed by Betty Hutton belting out “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun” in the film version of “Annie Get Your Gun,” this fine website created as part of PBS’s American [...]