function printSpecial(URL) {
	if (document.getElementById != null) {
		var html = '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">';
		html += '<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">';
		html += "\n<HEAD>\n";

		if (document.getElementsByTagName != null) {
			var headtags = document.getElementsByTagName("HEAD");
			if (headtags.length > 0)
				html += headtags[0].innerHTML;
		}

		var printReadyElem = document.getElementById("mainpane");
		
		if (printReadyElem != null) {
			html += "\n";
			html += '<LINK rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/Portals/0/print.css"></LINK>';
			html += "\n";
			html += '<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/PrintAndClose.js"></script>';
			html += "\n</HEAD>\n<BODY>\n";
			html += '<div id="printLinks"><a href="#" onclick="javascript:PrintAndClose();">Print</a>';
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="javascript:window.close();">Close Window</a></div>';
			html += '<img src="/Portals/0/Skins/mySkin//IPY-banner.gif" width="331" height="36" alt="U.S. International Polar Year" />';
			html += printReadyElem.innerHTML;
			html += "\n";
			html += '<div id="footer"><a href="/"><img id="ipylogo" width="43" height="39" src="/Portals/0/Skins/mySkin/ipylogo.jpg" alt="U.S. International Polar Year Home Page" /></a>';
			html += "\n<p>This site features IPY activities supported by the United States government.</p>\n<p>";
			html += URL + "</p>\n</div>\n</BODY>\n</HTML>";
		}

		else {
			window.print();
			return;
		}

		var printWin = window.open("","printSpecial","scrollbars=1,left=" + eval((window.screen.width-700)*0.5) + ",top=0,width=700,height=" + eval(window.screen.height-75) );
		printWin.document.open();
		printWin.document.write(html);
		printWin.document.close();		
	}

	else {
		window.print();
	}
}