Weekend update: Other things found this week:
After all those interesting reports out last week, not much in the way of research resources this week at all. A bit of a flurry on the Herald blog earlier this week, but seems like the inauguration quieted everything down. We'll try again next week....


More links....

Reference:

About the new SAT tests: press materials from College Board.

Endangered by Sprawl Natl Wildlife Federation report on endangered wildlife in urban areas. Among the findings: "Under existing patterns of development, 18 counties are on track to use up all their non-federal farmland and habitat to accommodate projected growth by or before 2025. Examples include Cobb, Gwinnett, and DeKalb counties in the Atlanta area, Dallas and Tarrant counties in the Dallas area, Harris County in the Houston area, and Broward County in the Miami area...Other notable places where rapid growth threatens large numbers of imperiled plants and animals include the Las Vegas area (Clark County, 97 species), Phoenix (Maricopa County, 22 species), and Florida (the Miami, Orlando, and Tampa-St. Petersburg areas)."
News:

AOL News is now available on the net.
Tools:

Ethics Advice Line for Journalists

Finding phone numbers with search engines: a SearchEngineWatch article links to tools for using Google or Yahoo, etc. to find phone numbers (business and residential).
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:

Profile of Choicepoint, owner of DBT/Autotrack, in Washington Post.

Would blogs have saved Nixon? interesting post from South Knox Bubba on an article speculating that blogs would have 'kept the liberal media in line' during the Watergate investigation. Bubba thinks differently. Interesting counterpoint to Steve Outing's comments, mentioned earlier.