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From: karlc@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Karl Churchill)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Where are the databases?
Summary: Want public domain databases
Keywords: calories, carbohydrates, cholesterol.
Message-ID: <2194@lll-lcc.llnl.gov>
Date: 6 Dec 88 21:49:09 GMT
Reply-To: karlc@lll-lcc.llnl.gov.UUCP (Karl Churchill)
Organization: Lab Comp Ctr, Lawrence Laboratory, Livermore Ca
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I'd like to find some public domain / shareware databases of
nutritional values.  E.g., food, calories, carbohydrates, fats, 
cholesterol, ....

I've been looking for such things (though not aggressively) for
some time.  The only dbs of *any kind* I can recall seeing in 
public domain / shareware are 

1.   A small database of movie titles, actors;
2.   An impressive database of "on this day..." called TODAY;
3.   Databases of astronomical values, usually tied to programs
(usually written in BASIC).

Aren't there any databases of e.g.,

1.   Magazine author, title, subject, issue for specific magazines such
  as *National Geographic*, *Smithsonian*, *Science*, *Scientific American*?
2.   Aerobic values / calories for work
3.   Nutritional values (as requested above)
4.   (800) phone numbers
5.   Type, hours, subject, operator, phone of BBS's

I know these things exist commercially, usually on a subscription
basis.  Aren't there any in public domain?  Is anyone interested in
developing an interest group devoted to the exchange of such databases
sans drivers? 

-- Karl.
(These thoughts and questions are my own and, of course, do not in
any way reflect the interests of intentions of my employer or sponsors)