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Elections

Human cloning

Global financial markets

• Developing stories: Stock market downturn of 2002 - accounting scandals - South American economic crisis of 2002
• Corporations: Enron - Global Crossing - WorldCom - Arthur Andersen - ImClone
• Institutions: Securities and Exchange Commission
• Indexes and markets: Dow Jones - NYSE - S&P; 500 - NASDAQ

U.S. "War on Terrorism"

• Developing stories: War on Terrorism - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan - U.S. plan to invade Iraq - List of terrorist incidents
• Ethnicities: Demographics of Afghanistan - Azerbaijan - Pashtun - Tajik
• Geography: Afghanistan - Baghlan, Afghanistan - Georgia, Caucasus - Israel - Kabul - Kandahar - Kunduz, Afghanistan - New York City - Pakistan - Palestine - United States of America - Washington, D.C. - Camp X-Ray
• History: September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Back history
• People: Osama Bin Laden - Tony Blair - George W. Bush - Abdul Rashid Dostum - Pervez Musharraf - Mullah Mohammed Omar - Burhanuddin Rabbani - Donald H. Rumsfeld - Abdul Sattar - John Walker Lindh
• Organizations: al Qaeda - CDC - Northern Alliance - Taliban - United Nations - United Nations Security Council - U.S. Special Operations
• 2001 anthrax attack: individual cases of anthrax - anthrax - individual cases of anthrax - antibiotic resistance - biological warfare - biological weapon - ciprofloxacin - gas mask - germ warfare - vaccine
• Concepts
  • Geographical: airport - airspace - pipeline
  • Military/guerilla/defense technology and strategy: aircraft carrier - airport security - baggage screening - car bomb - domestic security - aircraft hijacking - smallpox - terrorist cell
  • Political: anti-Americanism - domestic terrorism - foreign aid - foreign aid worker - humanitarian aid - peace - risk analysis - terrorism - terrorist groups - war
  • Religious: Islamism
  • Psychological: collective trauma

U.S. Domestic Response to Terrorism: Background

• Geography: New York City - Reno, Nevada - Washington, D.C.
• People: John Ashcroft - George W. Bush - Colin Powell - John Poindexter
• Organizations: Air Transport Association - Central Intelligence Agency - U.S. Department of Defense - Federal Bureau of Investigation - Office of Homeland Security - Office of Strategic Influence - Information Awareness Office
• Concepts: bipartisanship - electronic surveillance - encryption - wiretap - tax cut

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• Ethnicity: Israeli - Jew - Palestinian - List of terrorist incidents
• Geography: Gaza - Gaza Strip - Golan Heights - Israel - Judea - Palestine - Syria - West Bank
• People: Yasser Arafat - Shimon Peres - Colin Powell - Nabil Shaath - Ariel Sharon
• Religion: Islam - Judaism

Extreme weather

• Earth Summit 2002
• Climate: 100-year flood - global warming - monsoon
• Geography: Vltava - Elbe - Danube - Black Sea
• Countries: Czech Republic - Germany - Russia - Romania - Austria - Bulgaria - Croatia - Italy - Spain
• Places: Prague - Dresden - Shirokaya Balka

September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack

World Trade Center - Pentagon - New York City - Washington, D.C. - AA Flight 11 - UA Flight 75 - AA Flight 77 - UA Flight 93 - September 11