Here are the key news events of the month organized into three categories: World News, U.S. News, and Business, Society, and Science News. World U.S. Troops Kill…
Distributor:Weston Woods From George Washington to George W. Bush, David Small’s Caldecott-winning book comes to life through an animated irreverent romp through the public and private lives of…
(Encyclopedia) Jindal, Bobby, 1971–, American politician, b. Baton Rouge, La., as Piyush Jindal. The son of immigrants from India, he attended Brown Univ. (B.S., 1991) and thereafter was a Rhodes…
(Encyclopedia) ghost town, term for any once flourishing American community that has been abandoned, generally for economic reasons. While most of the towns have little or no population, they often…
(Encyclopedia) Fukuyama, Francis, 1952–, American political scientist, b. Chicago, grad. Cornell (B.A., 1974), Harvard (Ph.D., 1981). He has been a political scientist at the RAND Corporation (1979–…
(Encyclopedia) jatrophajatrophajăˈtrəfə [key], any plant of a widely distributed genus (Japtropha) of perennial herbs, shrubs, and trees in the family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family), native to…
(Encyclopedia) Barr, William Pelham, 1950–, U.S. lawyer and government official, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (B.A. 1971, M.A. 1973). A conservative Republican noted for his expansive view of the…
(Encyclopedia) Bernanos, GeorgesBernanos, Georgeszhôrzh bĕrnänōsˈ [key], 1888–1948, French novelist and polemicist. Profoundly Catholic, Bernanos attacked modern materialism and advocated a moral and…
