The Weekly Update, war fallout and more:
(Gone to the mountains where there'll be no Net connection. See you next week)

Lost Treasures from Iraq: compilation from University of Chicago.

Iraq's real most wanted, card deck of lost antiquities.

Search AP database of coalition casualites: search by name, type, place, etc. via Detroit Free Press.

Knight Ridder war blog shuts down.

Government views of Iraq links from City College, NY library.

US military casualties, Operation Iraqi Freedom list on SLA news division site, by state.

And more useful links....

Reference

Sixties City history, lists, trivia, statistics, etc. from the 1960s from a British perspective.

National Ocean Service new NOAA site.

Search National Geographic Society publications. Includes journals, books, CD-ROMs.

The Handbook of Texas Online great online encyclopedia of history, people, towns, places, institutions.

Institute for the study of international migration at Georgetown.
Journalism

Periodistas en coma new journalism forum in spain.

Institute for War and Peace Reporting

RAM Project: Refugees, Asylum seekers, and Mass media. in UK.
Tools:

Google proximity search (within 1,2, or 3 words). This isn't available directly from Google: the only search engine with proximity is AltaVista, which has a 'near' search. (Note, AltaVista still has BabelFish -- the translation site is 5 years old!).
News:

Modesto Bee archive of Laci Peterson stories

SARS Updates Agonist weblog is posting news/comments/links on SARS.
Governments/Politics:

State budget cuts created child welfare crisis report from Children's Defense Fund.
Statistics, Business, Public Records, People, Florida: no links this week.

Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:

The real story behind the Iraq playing cards on Sheila Lennon's blog on Providence Journal website.

Site Lines: a blog about Web searching.

Story on The state library of Florida and effort to save it, in Governing magazine.

Hartford Courant travel columnist Dennis Horgan ordered to stop his Weblog.

The battle for American science fascinating story in The Guardian. Similar story in Washington Post.

New Times on George Zirwas, the ex-priest murdered in Havana.
Fun/Entertaining:

Bush regime playing cards.