CURRENT EVENTS UPDATE

To the Teacher: In an ongoing effort to keep you and your students up to date on the complex and far-reaching events that are unfolding around the globe, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill provides this current events update twice a year. Produced through a co-publishing relationship between Glencoe/McGraw-Hill and TIME School Publishing, the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update Fall 2001 brings the latest information about important happenings, issues and trends to your students in the vivid and compelling style for which TIME is renowned. On the following pages, you’ll find news reports, feature stories, chronologies, maps, graphs, charts and poll data taken exclusively from recent issues of TIME. Accompanying these articles are questions and worksheets to help students analyze and investigate the topics about which they have been reading. We hope the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update Fall 2001 will lead your students to a deeper understanding of the latest developments in the United States and abroad. Please visit Glencoe’s website at www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies to access this update online. Additional resources for teaching current events are available on a weekly basis from the TIME Classroom website, located at www.timeclassroom.com. Browse the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update Fall 2001 using the links below, or click here to download the files in PDF format.
NATION
CONGRESS	A One-Man Earthquake WORKSHEET: The Jeffords Defection: Bold Move or Betrayal? Stupid Tax Tricks
DEFENSE	The Secretary of Missile Defense
SOCIETY	Ghosts of the South
BUSINESS	Power Struggle Nuclear Summer WORKSHEET: Nuclear Power in America: A Class Debate Yahoo Lowers the Net
SPECIAL REPORT: GLOBAL WARMING	A Climate of Despair WORKSHEET: Global Warming: Policies and Consequences
WORLD
EUROPE	A Tour Without a Trip
CHINA	Safe Landing
BRITAIN	Blair’s Next Move
MIDDLE EAST	Last Dance, Last Chance? WORKSHEET: Current Events In Review Answers
ARCHIVED EDITIONS Current Events Spring 1999 \| Current Events Fall 1999 Current Events Spring 2000 \| Current Events Fall 2000 Current Events Spring 2001

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