Asia Food: Oh no, not another food site! Yes, like it or not, food sites are hot, and in the current climate of dotcom evanescence, they're the safest bet for longevity. This one doesn't have spicy graphics on the home page to entice you, but it offers "loods" of cooking tips and "Asian food terms and recipes from Charmaine Solomon's 'Encyclopedia of Asian Food'". There're two pull-down boxes that let you "select a type of dish" (appetizers, desserts, soups, sauces etc) and "select a region" ("AustralAsia, EastAsia, SouthAsia, SoutheastAsia"). The pages are somewhat bare but you get most of the relevant info on dish preparation, including step-by-step cooking instructions. There's also a direct link to recipes if that's all you're looking for. There're some entertaining cultural and culinary backgrounders, like a piece on 'Tieguanyin Oolong Tea' and a feature on 'Asia in New York City'. Inclusions like 'Malay Fruit Proverbs' and 'Explore India's Courtly Cuisine' also broaden the site's menu.

Feminist Majority Foundation Online: A site that champions the rights of women and promotes their role in various spheres of life. Covering everything from 'Reproductive Rights' and 'Global Feminism' to 'Breast Cancer' and 'Gender Apartheid', this is just the sort of online resource centre that should be invaluable to anyone actively campaigning for women's equality. There's a daily 'Feminist News' update that offers the latest on women-related and human rights issues, while such sections as 'Women & Girls in Sports', 'Feminist Career Center', 'Take Action' and 'Student Activism' are packed with useful suggestions and organisational information. You can sign up for an e-mail alert on current affairs and check out a calender of events to which you can make your own submissions as well. There's a site index to ease navigation and a search link helps you look for topics that interest you. You can also opt for a text-only version of the site if you're using a PC that should belong in a museum by now.

Hint Fashion Magazine: Bold, brazen and bra-ssy, this women's fashion e-zine covers lots of catwalk action and offers provocative pieces on some of the most radical creations and designers in the high-chic rag world. It's ultra-hip sense and heavy focus on daring designs may put off those with conservative tastes in fashion, but the contents are so intriguingly packaged that most visitors to the site will find something to grab their attention. Regular features like 'Chic Happens', which offers the latest dope on "who, what and wear news and gossip", and 'Supernova', which looks at "rising stars of design", are filled with juicy, sometimes catty, bits than will not only help you sharpen your fashion sense but also let you thrill your gossip mates with spicy morsels of fashion info. The photo spreads, with clever titles like 'Gang of Four', 'Hidden Agenda' and 'The Outsider', are also tastefully done, though you should brace yourself for some shocking revelations. Columns like 'Shelf Life' ("book reviews for the fashion literate"), 'Model Mania' ("hot new models to watch") and 'Runway Collections' are packed with fashion tips as well. Other standard features include 'Message Boards', 'Archives' and 'Links'. Image downloads are somewhat slow but that's just a minor inconvenience at this expensive-looking site.

InteliHealth Dental: An excellent online resource centre for dental health that features "consumer information from (the) University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine". A wide range of topics on oral health -- 'Endodontics/Root Canal', 'Controlling Pain', 'Overcoming Fear', 'Implants', 'Fluoride' etc -- is treated in a manner that anyone who can make out a standard newspaper report will be able to understand. And the information is made more comprehensible with illustrated guides that document the various stages of infection. Just check out the guide for gum disease which presents "the sequence of destruction" so graphically that you might just feel like running to the nearest dentist for some preventive action. There's an interactive section where you can find answers to your dental problems, and if you want to know more about 'Gum Surgery', 'Crowns', 'Fillings' or 'Implants', you just click on the topic titles on the main page. You can also find useful articles on such things as bad breath and kid's teeth, and for problem definitions, the 'Oral Health A to Z' is invaluable. The site is extremely visitor-friendly and many of the pages load in less than a minute.

Introduction to Islam: The entire contents of Professor M. Cherif Bassiouini's book, 'Introduction to Islam', is presented at this site that seeks to "convey to a non-Muslim audience an understanding of Islam, its history, culture, and contribution to civilization". Most of information is text-based but there're also "visual representations including maps, charts, pictures, and drawings". The book covers almost every aspect of Islam -- "religious, historical, geographic, social, legal, political, economic, cultural, scientific, and artistic" -- in clear, crisp prose. The sections dealing with 'Economic Aspects of Islam' and 'Islamic Civilization' are especially fascinating. The contents are accessible by section or chapter headings from a left-side frame and the pages load up quite smoothly.

Mensa International: While it basically "provides a forum for intellectual exchange among members", this Web site for smart people -- the cerebrally chosen ones, so to speak -- also invites visitors who're not so smart to test their brainpower. It comes in the form of a quiz called 'Mensa Workout' which is meant more for entertainment than testing a person's IQ. But despite the disclaimer that the "score will not qualify you for Mensa", the 30 questions (time limit of one minute per question, though that's going to be tricky to assess because of download inconsistencies) are designed to separate the savants from the idiots. It's an interesting quiz -- opt for the graphical rather than text-only version for total torture/fun -- that anyone who reckons his/her intelligence is above-average should take a shot at. As for the other features at this site -- 'Mensa Information', 'Membership Benefits' etc -- they're interesting though they might make non-members envious that they're not part of an elite set of "brainiacs".

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