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@@ -66,9 +66,7 @@ get more out of out. (Rinse and repeat.)
 
 	+	[How to Design Programs](http://www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/), by Matthias Felleisen, et al., which the Racket groups recommends. Whenever the book says "Scheme," you can read it as "Racket."
 
-	Another warmly-recommended introduction available online is:
-
-	+	[Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html)
+	Another warmly-recommended introduction available online is [Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html) This is a short introductory text that introduces common Scheme techniques.
 
 *	If you're already a programmer and you're in more of a hurry, you could instead look at the [Quick Introduction to Racket](http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html). This tutorial provides a brief introduction to the Racket programming language by using DrRacket and one of Racket's picture-drawing libraries.
 
@@ -84,15 +82,12 @@ different handy extensions. The first standard was published in 1975. A
 revision was published in 1978 called "The revised report on Scheme, a
 dialect of Lisp." Thereafter, revisions of the standard were titled "The
 Revised Revised Report..." and so on, or "The Revised^n Report..." for
-short, for increasing n. The most widely implemented standard is [The
-Revised^5 Report on Scheme](http://docs.racket-lang.org/r5rs/index.html),
+short. One widely implemented standard is [The
+Revised^5 Report on Scheme](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/),
 or R5RS, published in 1998.
-\[ [Alt link](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/) \]
-A new standard [R6RS](http://docs.racket-lang.org/r6rs/index.html) was ratified
+A new standard [R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs/r6rs.html) was ratified
 in 2007, but this has many detractors and has not been fully accepted in the
-community.
-\[ [Alt link](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs/r6rs.html);
-[Libraries](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib.html) \]
+community. ([Libraries for R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib.html))
 
 *	[Scheme FAQ](http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-faq)
 
@@ -107,11 +102,11 @@ community.
 *	[[!wikipedia Y combinator]]
 *	[Chapter 9 from The Little Schemer](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/sample.ps) on the Y Combinator "...and Again, and Again, and Again..."
 *	[The Y combinator](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/2700.html)
+*	[The Why of Y](http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/WhyOfY.pdf)
 *	[The Y Combinator (Slight Return), or: How to Succeed at Recursion Without Really Recursing](http://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html)
 *	[Y Combinator for Dysfunctional Non-Schemers](http://rayfd.wordpress.com/2007/05/06/y-combinator-for-dysfunctional-non-schemers/)
 *	[The Y Combinator](http://www.ece.uc.edu/~franco/C511/html/Scheme/ycomb.html)
-*	[The Y Combinator](http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/cs245/ycomb_jim.html), described as:
-	> This is the derivation of the applicative-order Y-combinator from scratch, in Scheme. The following derivation is similar in flavor to the derivation found in The Little LISPer by Friedman/Felleisen, but uses a slightly different starting approach...
+*	[The Y Combinator](http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/cs245/ycomb_jim.html) derives the applicative-order Y-combinator from scratch, in Scheme. This derivation is similar in flavor to the derivation found in The Little Schemer, but uses a slightly different starting approach...
 
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