Glencoe Social Studies FALL 2003
Current Events Update
Glencoe Partners With TIME!

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 Learning Ventures, the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update Fall 2003 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 2003 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

Best wishes,

Sue Martin
Editorial Director, Social Studies
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Bennett Singer
Executive Editor
TIME Classroom

Browse the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update Fall 2003 using the links below, or click here to download the files in PDF format.

GULF WAR II
Dissecting the Case
Awestruck
Inside Saddam Hussein's Head
Armed with Their Teeth
WORKSHEET:
The U.S. Goes to War
Can Anyone Govern This Place?
A NATION AT WAR The War Comes Back Home
WORKSHEET:
Civil Liberties versus National Security
NATION
CAMPAIGN 2004 Taking Aim at 2004
SUPREME COURT Bush's Supreme Challenge
SOCIETY Now She's Got
ECONOMY Where Did My Raise Go?
The Real Face of Homelessness
SPACE Seven Astronauts, One Fate
WORLD
MIDDLE EAST Who's the No. 1 Palestinian Now?
THE WAR ON TERRORISM Why the War on Terror Will Never End
WORLD HEALTH The Truth About SARS
NORTH KOREA How Dangerous Is North Korea?
WORKSHEET:
Charts and Maps in Focus
CUBA Who's Bugging Castro?
WORKSHEET:
Current Events in Review
Answers


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