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 Education Program, the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update Spring 2000 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 2000 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 Education Program's website, located at www.time.com/teach. Browse the Time/Glencoe Current Events Update Spring 2000 using the links below, or click here to download the files in PDF format.
Y2K	Hey, You In That Bunker, You Can Come Out Now!
INDICATORS	World Population: Six Billion and Counting Indicators of the Century WORKSHEET: Maps and Graphs in Focus
PERSON OF THE CENTURY	Albert Einstein: Person of the Century Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Runner-Up Mohandas Gandhi: Runner-Up WORKSHEET: Voices of the Century

CAMPAIGN 2000	Primary Questions How to Tell Them Apart WORKSHEET: Portrait of a Candidate
CONGRESS	Mutually Assured Destruction
PERSON OF THE YEAR	Jeff Bezos: King of the Internet
BUSINESS	AOL and Time Warner: Happily Ever After?

GLOBAL ECONOMY	Rage Against the Machine
RUSSIA	No Tears for Boris
MIDDLE EAST	Men At Work
EAST TIMOR	On The Razor's Edge WORKSHEET: East Timor's Independence Struggle
JAPAN	The Japan Syndrome
PANAMA	Giving Up the Ship?
CUBA	A Big Battle for a Little Boy
ENVIRONMENT	Greenhouse Effects
Review:	WORKSHEET: Current Events in Review Answers

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