Despite my best efforts to verify all of the Web sites listed at the end of many readings before the new edition of Improving Reading Skills was published, unfortunately--and to my great chagrin--I have discovered that some sites are already defunct. The following list represents an updated selection of sites that are current as of mid-September 1999. I apologize for any inconvenience or annoyance this has caused. Selection 1 Dave Barry, 'Tips for Women: How to Have Relationships with a Guy' Selection 2 Rose del Castillo Guilbault, 'The Conveyor-Belt Ladies' Selection 3 Bobbie Ann Mason, 'The Burden of the Feast' Selection 4 Eddy L. Harris, 'Mississippi Solo' Four sites for paddle sports (canoeing and kayaking): Great Outdoor Recreation Pages RiverSport.com Canoe & Kayak American Rivers Selection 5 Debra Dickerson, 'Who Shot Johnny?' Another article by Debra Dickerson about her younger brother's decision to forge a new life off the street, can be found at this site: Salon (Type her name in the search box.), Dickerson's writing for Salon.com
Selection 6 Luis J. Rodriguez, 'La Vida Loca: Two Generations of Gang Members' Curbstone Press, A site devoted to Rodriguez's works and those of other Latino poets
Selection 7 Mark Fritz, 'Being Paid to Snitch: Rewards Becoming the 4th R' Selection 8 Sheldon Campbell, 'Games Elephants Play' Selection 9 Richard P. Feynman, 'The Amateur Scientist' Selection 10 Charles Finney, 'The Life and Death of a Western Gladiator' Selection 12 Richard Wolkomir, 'Making Up for Lost Time: The Rewards of Reading at Last' Literacy Online Laubach Literacy Literacy Volunteers Project Read—Redwood City Selection 13 Terry Williams, 'Voices from the Tunnel' Selection 15 Pamela Burdman, 'Twenty Years Out of Saigon' Selection 18 Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, 'New Jersey v. T. L. O.: The School Search Cases' Selection 19 Roger Swardson, 'Hard Labor' America's Job Bank Monster Board Career Mosaic Career Central Selection 20 Marilyn Johnson, 'Oprah's Books' Selection 21 David Ferrell, 'Badwater: The Ultra-Marathon' LA Times, David Ferrell's other articles in the extreme sports series are available in the LA Times archives. (There is a small fee for downloading.) A virtual tour of Death Valley Two sites on extreme sports:
Adventure Time ESPN Go Selection 22 Rachel Noerdlinger, 'Home Was Not Where My Racial Identity Was' Black Families, part of a grassroots national electronic community for African-Americans
Selection 23 Gordon Livingston, 'What I Did for Love: Being Michael's Dad' Selection 24 Carol Kaufman, 'Is Adoption the Answer to Abortion?' talk.abortion alt.adoption alt.abortion Selection 25 John J. Miller, 'Bilingual Ed's Abolitionists' and Selection 26 Adela de la Torre, 'Perspective on Bilingual Education' Selection 27 Malcolm Gladwell, 'Chip Thrills' Selection 28 Mark Derr, 'The Perilous Iditarod' Iditarod Trail Committee, the official sponsor of the race Working Dog Web, a site with many links pertaining to dog sled racing Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, The history of the Iditarod and its importance for the state of Alaska Selection 30 James Villas, 'A Night of Ice and Death' Selection 31 Arthur Zich, 'Japanese Americans: Home at Last' Selection 32 Jared Diamond, 'Easter's End' Selection 33 Jeffrey Kluger, 'Love by the Line' Selection 36 William Booth, 'Diversity and Division: America's New Wave of Immigration' National Immigration Forum The findings from the National Immigration Forum were challenged by the Center for Immigration Studies, a non-partisan think tank that studies the economic, social, demographic, and fiscal impact of immigration on the United States. Their Web address:
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