Question: Sometimes my keypal writes a word in French, but I don’t know what it means. Can you help?
-Darleen, Rochester, New York
Dear Darleen: Here’s a cool idea that could help. If you read your e-mail with your Web browser, you can look up a foreign word at the same time right on the Web. Go to Travlang’s Translating Dictionaries at http://dictionaries.travlang.com/ and select the language you want to translate. You’ll get a page with a box to type in the foreign word that you want to translate. Check out this site for some other ways to help you learn foreign languages.
Question: I’m doing a report for my government class. Is there legal stuff on the World Wide Web?
-Jeff, Springfield
Dear Jeff: We found a World Wide Web site called FindLaw at http://www.findlaw.com/ that has a huge database about all kinds of legal things. You can do a search for something like a Supreme Court opinion or go to the index and decide what area of the law you want to know about. We looked for civil rights and eventually got to a whole Web site on Brown vs. Board of Education at http://lawlib.wuacc.edu/brown/brown.htm. It’s awesome to find out how much there is to know about the law.
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