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Glencoe Social Studies SPRING 2005
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 SPRING 2005 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 SPRING 2005 will lead your students to a deeper understanding of the latest developments in the United States and abroad.

Best wishes,

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

Browse the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update SPRING 2005 using the links below, or click here to download the files in PDF format.

PERSON OF THE YEAR
George W. Bush: American Revolutionary
NATION
ELECTION 2005 In Victory's Glow
Four More Years
How Bush Pulled It Off
WORKSHEET:
Interpreting Maps and Charts
What Happens to the Losing Team?
Obama's Ascent
THE SUPREME COURT Who Might Be Nominated?
THE CABINET Condi Gets Her Shot
WAR ON TERROR Halting the Next 9/11
U.S. MILITARY Does the U.S. Need a Draft?
WORLD
IRAQ War by Fits and Starts
The Great Sunni Hope
UKRAINE The Orange Revolution
WORKSHEET:
Democracy in Ukraine
SUDAN The Tragedy of Sudan
IRAN Iran, Still Defiant
MIDDLE EAST The Eternal Agitator
SOCIETY AND SCIENCE
SPORTS Basketball Brawl
SCHOOLS The Cafeteria Crusader
INVENTION OF THE YEAR The Sky's the Limit
ENVIRONMENT Meltdown!
WORKSHEET:
Current Events in Review
Answers
ARCHIVED EDITIONS
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Current Events Fall 2006 | Current Events Spring 2006
Current Events Fall 2005 | Current Events Spring 2005
Current Events Fall 2004 | Current Events Spring 2004
Current Events Fall 2003 | Current Events Spring 2003
Current Events Fall 2002 | Current Events Spring 2002
Current Events Fall 2001 | Current Events Spring 2001
Current Events Fall 2000 | Current Events Spring 2000
Current Events Fall 1999 | Current Events Spring 1999

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