Write stories? Want someone to read them? Want an e-mail pen pal? Go to KidPub, the coolest place on the Web for writers too young to vote. Publish your stories on the WWW so people all over the world can read them. It's easy, even if you've never done it before-just fill in a form. You can join the KidPub Crew, too, and work with other imaginative types on a hilarious story-in-progress. While you're at KidPub, sign up for a KeyPal, a pen pal who uses e-mail instead of snail mail, and make an on-line friend. KidPub helps get classes on-line, so maybe your school can be part of this electric writers' workshop. KidPub is all about the craft of word smithing, so if you've got the writing bug, crawl to http://www.en-garde.com/kidpub/

You're ready to get to work on your first project of the new school year, but you don't know where to begin. For topics ranging from solar eclipses to Van Gogh to the passage of a bill in Congress, take a research short cut to Kids Web Library. Here you'll find sites sorted under major topic headings, like Literature and Chemistry, so the initial searching has been done for you. Under each subject, there are links to lots of Web resources. But all work and no fun is not the rule at this on-line bibliotech-links to games and sports sites are here, too, so whatever your interests, this bookless library is a great launching pad onto the WWW. And you don't have to whisper!

You can almost feel the eye yourself at this on-line interactive laboratory at Cow's Eye Dissection. Sit in at the Cow's Eye Dissection site and see pictures and hear audio recordings (see Ask Amy) of an actual dissection. You'll get an eyeful and an earful! Want more? Down-load the interactive graphics and follow some of the suggested links for more anatomical fun. What do you think? Is it awesome, or digust- ing? The Exploratorium wants feedback from you.

Go to Webster's e-dictionary, whenever you need a word defined. Just enter the word, click "search," and voila! The definition appears. By the way, an opah is a . . .

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