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"Ten Things You Can Do on the Net This Week:" http://www.learnthenet.com/english/features/tenthings.htm

1. Peer inside plant and animal cells: http://www.cellsalive.com/

2. Explore the Beatles' hit tunes: http://www.thebeatles.com/

3. Listen to the noises of New York: http://www.noiseways.org/

4. Hear the song of whales: http://www.jasonproject.org/expeditions/whales2001/

5. Build your own Jaguar: http://www2.buildyourjaguar.com/

6. Send someone a kitsch postcard: http://www.kitschpostcards.com/

7. Play Pong, the world's first video game: http://www.pong-story.com/

8. Test your knowledge of hernias: http://www.herniainfo.com/quiz.htm

9. Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Brownie camera: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/brownieCam/brownieCam.shtml

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