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America Online

* Sunday, 5 p.m: Cartoonist Dan Piraro, who draws “Bizarro,” talks about his 11-year experience creating funnies. Keyword: Centerstage

* Monday, 6:30 p.m: Country music singer Victoria Shaw in an on-line conference. Keyword: Centerstage

CompuServe

* Today, 6 p.m: Hugo award-winning author C.J. Cherryh discusses her science-fiction books “Cyteen” and “Downbelow Station.” Go TWLIFE

* Thursday, 6 p.m: Commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II with Benis M. Frank, chief historian of the U.S. Marine Corps. Go CNNFORUM

Prodigy/TimesLink

* Saturday, noon: Producers Don Barrett and Robert H. Goodman join an astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in a TimesLink on-line chat. Jump: CHAT

* Sunday, 6 p.m: Author Greg Mitchell, who co-wrote “Hiroshima in America,” discusses the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing in a Prodigy on-line chat. Jump: CHAT

Internet

* Enter the USC cybergarden, plant some seeds, then see how green your thumb is by watering them and watching them grow via robotic camera. https://www.usc.edu/dept/garden/

* Browse a listing of the 100 largest U.S. companies on the Web, updated monthly, at https://fox.nstn.ca/~at_info/w100_intro.html

* A new “intelligent agent” will comparison-shop eight different on-line music stores at https://bf.cstar.ac.com/bf/

Sources: Company, Times and reports