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At Consumers Union, we often turn to federal government Web sites in our research. Like you, we depend on the facts to be not just accurate but also easily accessible. All too often, though, government Web sites are difficult to penetrate. (Just try searching for all recalls of toys with lead at the Consumer Product Safety Commission site, at www.cpsc.gov.Aaargh.)
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So I asked a few of our experts which government sites are the most reliable and easiest to navigate.
Health. On the National Library of Medicine's Web site (www.medlineplus.gov) you'll find information about diseases and a searchable registry of tens of thousands of clinical trials. Those of you facing an operation or just intrigued by the operating room can watch hundreds of videotaped surgeries as varied as deep brain stimulation and foot-tendon repair.
Money. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's site (www.fdic.gov) is one to tap now. Type "insured or not insured?" into the site's search box and you'll find which accounts are protected from bank failures (CDs, yes; mutual funds, ...
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The Citrix technology that chugs away underneath Web applications is being used to put up military and government GUIs with security holes you could drive a bus through. Security researcher Petko D. Petkov--aka "pdpsaid in an Oct. 4 posting that his recent testing of Citrix gateways led him to
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