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Online Reference
Resources
Rankings and
Awards
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50 Most Powerful Women in Business -- just where do they work?
Forbes has discontinued it's list of best places for women to work;
I wonder why?
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100
Years, 100 Movies--the American Film Institute's picks for the
best 100 movies of all time.
- 200
Best Small Companies in America--from Forbes, 200 American
companies with sales under $350 million that have the highest 5 year
profitability.
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America's
Most Literate Cities -- tallied by five different literacy categories:
educational attainment, booksellers, libraries, newspaper circulation
and periodicals published.
- Best
Places to Live-- Annual. Use Money Magazine's search formula and data
to rank the best cities on the criteria that matter most to you.
- Best
Colleges-- Princeton Review's selections.
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Bloggie Awards! -- The best of the best blogs by year.
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Children's Well-Being in Rich Countries -- International
rankings from UNICEF
- College
and University Rankings--this is a guide to the various sources
that rank colleges and universities, with a "Caution and
Controversies" page explaining the weaknesses in the
methodologies the different ranking sources employ.
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College Rankings--from US News and World Report--allows you to
sort colleges by variables of your choice.
- Fast
Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards -- top 20
companies engaged in social entrepreneurship. Otherwise known as
social capitalism or social enterprise, an interesting concept.
- Forbes
400 Richest People--and the richest technology people and more.
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Forbes 200: Top Small Companies
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Forbes
400: Top Large Companies
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Fortune
500
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Fortune
Global 500--use menu on left.
- Health
Care Report Cards--hospital performance ratings based on Medicare
Data.
- Hillman
Wonders of the World -- top 100 wonders of the world,
plus the Seven Ancient Wonders too. Images and description for every
listing.
- the
Inc. 500 Top Growth Companies List
- Lists
on the Web--there's a little of everything here--lists of
companies, travel sites, newspapers, top songs and movies, the
greatest NBA players ever, the must-play golf courses, and lots more.
Use along with Price's List of Lists below.
- Literature
Prizes-- an extensive list of well-known and obscure prizes, and
who won them.
- National
Book Awards
- National
Book Critics Circle -- list of useful book and criticism sites
from newspaper, magazine and online publications. The Circle also
awards for fiction, non-fiction, autobiography and criticism.
- News
You Can Use: Health--from U.S. News, a file which includes their
Best Hospitals and Best HMO's reports in their Toolbox section.
- Nobel
E-Museum -- virtual museum of science and culture, including
detailed information about Nobel prize winners and timelines.
- Orange
Prize for Fiction
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Past Winners
Database --" the Web's most
extensive listing of results for entertainment awards shows. The
database features information for more than 100 U.S., Canadian and
British shows
dating
to 1916. Winners and nominees range from major industry competitions
to small but influential festivals. There are also
television ratings and
Top 40 singles through the years as well as
comparisons of award results by categories."
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PEN/Faulkner
Award for Fiction -- America’s largest peer-juried fiction
prize
- Price's
List of Lists--a clearinghouse for a variety of online rankings,
of business, education, politics, "living" (America's safest
cities, best 100 companies for working mothers, etc.)
- Pulitzer
Prizes
- State
and Metropolitan Area Databook--entire book from the Dept. of the
Census is available in pdf format, but you can click directly on state
and metro rankings by a number of different categories including
demographic distribution, personal income, unemployment, social
security beneficiaries, etc.
- Wall
of Sound's Top 100 Albums of All Time--as picked by 25,000 Wall of
Sound readers. Sure to lead to much spirited disagreement and
discussion.
- Worldwide
Cost of Living - City Rankings
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