March 1997
Internet Prospector

P E O P L E

CONTENTS

• New York State Education Dept. Office of the Professions
• Philadelphia Inquirer: Healthy Pay Scale and Who Owns the Shore
• Current Biography Excerpts

NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Don't ask why the New York Education Department oversees the licensing of physicians, chiropractors, veterinarians, pharmacists, nurses, engineers, architects, CPA's, social workers, accupuncturists, interior designers and masseuses, to name but a few. Just be glad they do -- because they provide, at the Web site for the Office of the Professions, information on the licensing of these professionals, as well as descriptions of professional misconduct and discipline. Search by name and profession.

According to a February 2 New York Times article, by the end of this month, the list will be expanded to cover the last three years.

Thanks to David Shanton for this site.
http://www.nysed.gov/prof/profhome.htm

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

• Healthy Pay Scale
  The Inquirer has posted, at their Web site, their findings from a study of executive pay packages in Philadelphia hospitals for fiscal 1993-95. The salaries and benefits for 332 executives can be found here. Search by name, hospital or corp name. You can even sort by compensation rate.
  http://www.phillynews.com/packages/healthpay/
  
• Who Owns the Shore?
  Search the 90,000 property records to see the tax valuations and estimated market values of properties along the Jersey shore.
  http://www.phillynews.com/packages/njshore/homeindex.html
  

CURRENT BIOGRAPHY EXCERPTS
The H.W. Wilson Co. is offering excerpts from the thousands of biographies in its Current Biography library. Their stated plan is to feature a timely theme -- for example, bios of actors around Oscar time, and prominent African-Americans for Black History Month.

For now, to coincide with last summer's Olympics, you will be able to find bios of athletes in sports ranging from auto racing to sled dog racing to track and field. I guess we'll just have to keep checking back to see if they do decide to add more timely updates.
http://www.hwwilson.com:80/cbonline.html

(From Pam Patton)

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