Unit One The United Nations
Text A Midlife Crisis
Text B The Worlds Toughest Job
Unit Two The Middle East
Text A All Together Now
Text B Consequences of Power
Unit Three Unification of Europe
Text A Europe:How Fast?How Far?
Text B Has Europe Failed in Asia?
Unit Four The Balkans
Text A Reluctant Warrior
Text B The Drive for Countries of Their Own
Unit Five Former Soviet Union and Russia
Text A Final Dissolution of an Empire
Text B Russia's Future Shadowed by Centuries of Conquest
Unit Six The Gulf War
Text A Iraq Crisis Reflects Shift in World Alliances
Text B The Weapons Inside the High-Tech Arsenal
Unit Seven Nuclear Proliferation
Text A North Korea Destroys Nuclear Tower
Text B Formula for Terror
Unit Eight Information Superhighway
Text A The Future Is A lready Here
Text B Microsoft After Gates
Unit Nine Stock Market
Text A China:First BRIC to Crumble?
Text B Market Mania
Independent Study 1 US Presidential Election 2008
Text A Clinton Is Willing to Take No.2 Spot,But She Doesn't Have a Lock on It
Text B Unity Is Now Key for Democrats
Independent Study 2 Same Sex Marriage
Text A California Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Struck Down
Text B California Court Affirms Right to Gay Marriage
Independent Study 3 Sichuan Earth Quake
Text A China Stands Still to Remember Quake Victims
Text B China's Old Ways Shaken by Quake
Independent Study 4 International Financial Crisis
Text A Obama Is Said to Drop Plan for“Car Czar”to Fix Detroit
Text B Auto Industry Bailout