U.VA. CENTER'S VIRGINIA STATISTICS WEB SITE CITED FOR EXCELLENCE 

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 7 -- The University of Virginia's
Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service has received the Association
for University Business and Economic Research's 1996-97 "Best of the
Web" Award for offering easy electronic access to a wide range of key
information about Virginia and the nation.
	The U.Va. research and training center provides through its
Word Wide Web site regularly updated statistical information and
analyses on numerous economic, demographic and other topics about
Virginia, its localities, neighboring states and the nation. 
	The award was presented to John L. Knapp, the center's
director of business and economic research, at the spring meeting of
the national association of university economic research centers this
month in Washington, D.C.
	The Cooper Center's main web address is
http://www.virginia.edu/~cpserv/ with the VaStat data page at
http://www.virginia.edu/~cpserv/vastat.html
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May 6, 1997
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