A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection By MARILYNN MARCHIONE and MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press Writers Marilynn Marchione And Michael Casey, Associated Press Writers 48 mins ago BANGKOK – For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures [...]
Miniature Earth Project
September 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In US History II today, I had the students view the flash video for the Miniature Earth Project in order to get a context for understanding issues of globalization that we discussed earlier in our notes. Students were generally surprised to learn that the statistics of the world – broken down to a village of [...]
Reading 9 Revolutionary Politics
September 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Your text begins this section with some very important questions: “No areas of American life were more powerfully changed than politics and government. Who would have a voice in revolutionary politics, and who would be excluded? How vigorously would political equality be pursued, or how tenaciously would people cling to the traditional belief that citizens [...]
