What You Can Do On the e-Monitor

Read the day's paper and connect to useful background information.

Solve the interactive crossword puzzle.

Search the archives back to 1980.

Take the weekly news quiz based on the previous week's Monitors.

Follow breaking news by tapping into wire-service updates.

Communicate with other readers on current events, books, parenting, and other timely topics in the thoughtful atmosphere of e-Monitor forums.

Explore the World Wide Web in a purposeful way for research and enjoyment using "Today's Links."

Read the first chapter of most books reviewed in the Monitor and, if you like, link to an online bookstore to order the book.

Enjoy special cybercolumns; including: Web Women, Under the Hood (nuts and bolts of the Web), Cyberview, Site Reviews, and Computers for the Rest of Us.