Glencoe Social Studies FALL 2002
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 2002 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 2002 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,

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

Browse the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update Fall 2002 using the links below, or click here to download the files in PDF format.

WORLD
MIDDLE EAST The Saga of the Siege
  Untangling Jenin's Tale
  A Land Divided
  Why Suicide Bombing ... Is Now All The Rage
  Better Late Than Never
WORKSHEET:
Leadership in the Middle East
AFGHANISTAN Encountering the Taliban
IRAQ Inside Saddam's World
SERBIA Will Milosevic Get His?
RUSSIA Our New Best Friend?
KASHMIR War Clouds in Kashmir
WORKSHEET:
The Kashmir Conflict
JAPAN Time For Hardball?
NATION
CONGRESS Whipping Up A Fight
WORKSHEET:
Delay vs. Pelosi: A Study in Contrasts
BUSINESS WorldCon
The Coming Job Boom
WORKSHEET:
Current Events In Review
Answers


ARCHIVED EDITIONS
Current Events Fall 2001 | Current Events Spring 2002
Current Events Fall 2000 | Current Events Spring 2001
Current Events Fall 1999 | Current Events Spring 2000
Current Events Fall 1999 |
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