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A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
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►Federal vaccine testing change concerns some medical experts
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
How well do you keep up with the world around you? Take this week’s quiz to test your knowledge of recent national and world events.
►Is air traffic system out of control?
►Download the lessonThis week's word in the news: EVANGELIST
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FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Trump portrayed Means — a 37-year-old Stanford medical school graduate and author who describes herself on LinkedIn as a “former surgeon turned metabolic health evangelist” — in his announcement as fully in sync with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to “Make America Healthy Again.”
The Los Angeles Times -- 05/12/2025
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