Useful Information/Odds and Ends: The Internet is chock full of web sites where you can find useful and interesting information. Below is a partial list of sites (some of which have appeared here before in other contexts):

World and US News from four different major news organizations:
http://7am.com/wireidx/world/

Weather forecast for Rome and the rest of the world:
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=rome+italy

Currency conversion/exchange rates:
http://www.xe.net/ucc/

Science news (requires registration but it's free):
http://newsletter.scicentral.com/cgi-bin/register.cgi

Dictionaries -- three and a half million words in 611 dictionaries (mostly English language):
http://www.onelook.com/index.html

Worldwide Archeological news items in English:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_784000/784873.stm

Italian Archeological news items in Italian:
http://www.archeologia.com/upnotiz4.htm

Multilingual translation: Alta Vista's quick and dirty Babel Fish (It can translate Italian web sites into understandable, if not correct, English):
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/translate.dyn

Turismo Accesibile -- Rome tourism for the handicapped/links to similar information on other places in Europe (in Italian):
http://www.coinsociale.it/Turismo/servizi/index.htm

"Opry" and "Country" news from the 75 year old "Grand Ole Opry" -- the new multimedia stage set, special summer programs, anniversary celebrations in Nashville, order tickets on line, etc.:
http://208.200.175.236/

The Hunger Site -- a way to get food to hungry people at no cost to you:
http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/HungerSite

USA Phone numbers at "AnyWho":  http://www.anywho.com/wp.html