Unit 80 Civil Rights Movement against Segregation in the US During and after World War II, challenges to segregation became more common and more successful. Three major factors accounted for this: -- The Great Migration The great migration was the mo...
Unit 79 Rebel Wild Rose Rose O'Neal Greenhow was born in Montgomery County, Maryland. Rebel Wild Rose, as she was sometimes called, was a distinguished hostess in Washington society, a passionate secessionist, and one of the most renowned spies in th...
Unit 78 The American Civil War The American Civil War, the greatest war in American history as well as the only war fought on American soil by Americans, in which 3 million fought and 600,000 died. It was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1...
Unit 77 A Phenomenal Memory I have a phenomenal memory for faces. There is no doubt about that. The only snag is that I can never remember the names that go with them. Only the other day, I raised my hat to one fellow, quite distinguished-looking he...
Unit 76 Superman Star Christopher Reeve Superman actor Christopher Reeve, who turned personal tragedy into a public campaign and from his wheelchair became the nation's most recognizable spokesman for spinal cord research, died on Oct. 10, 2004, afte...
Unit 75 The Concerns about Genetically Modified Food Genetic Modification (GM) has the power to save lives through its use in medicine, such as the production of insulin for diabetics or the treatment of genetic disorders. The current outcry comes wh...
Unit 74 Will We Follow Dolly, the Sheep? Hearing Scottish scientists' success in cloning a sheep from a single adult cell, the world cones to an unsettling realization: the science is the easy part. it's not that the breakthrough was not decades in t...
Unit 73 You Make Mona Lisa Smile For nearly 500 years, people have been gazing at Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of the Mona Lisa with puzzle. First she is smiling. Then the smile fades. A moment later the smile returns only to disappear again. What is...
Unit 72 E-mail Is Here to Stay Is e-mail a blessing or a curse? Last month, after a week's vacation, I discovered 1,218 unread e-mail messages waiting in my inbox. I pretended to be dismayed, but secretly I was pleased. This is how we measure our wir...
Unit 71 Escape Valve A man and woman I know moved in together recently. It was, as such occasions are, a moment of sentiment and celebration. It was also a limited engagement. Before moving in, they had already set a fixed date when they would break...