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. With this issue, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill and Time Education Program are proud to announce a co-publishing relationship. The Time/Glencoe Current Events Update Spring 1999 brings the latest information about important happenings, issues and trends to your students in the vivid and compelling style for which Time Magazine is renowned. On the following pages, you'll find news reports, feature stories, interviews, 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 1999 will lead your students to a deeper understanding of the latest developments in the United States and abroad. Browse the Time/Glencoe Current Events Update Spring 1999 using the links below, or click here to download the files in PDF format.
ELECTION REPORT	Now Hear This Body Slam Analyzing the Election Results
IMPEACHMENT	Washington Burning The Great Disconnect Forks in the Road to Impeachment
SPACE	Victory Lap Gathering Oral History: The Space Program
U.S. ECONOMY	Dressed for Success Demonizing Gates

GLOBAL ECONOMY	What A Drag! What's a Dollar Worth?
CHINA	China's Missing Pieces
RUSSIA	Free Fall
MIDDLE EAST	Inside Wye Plantation
IRAQ	What Good Did It Do?
PAKISTAN	Sword of Islam Law and Religion in the Muslim World
THE BALKANS	Third Time Lucky?
AFRICA	Why Is This Happening? Conversation With Terror
CENTRAL AMERICA	Murderous Mitch Current Events in Review Answers

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