Scholastic Update articles from October 1995

Scholastic Update archives from October 1995

Happy birthday!(75th anniversary of Scholastic Update)
October 6, 1995... Seventy-five years ago thi month, The Western Pennsylvania Scholastic carried a hot story. "GIRL CHEERLEADERS," the headline read, "NEW IDEA THIS SEASON." So began the first issue of Scholastic's first magazine. It was a small start for a...

Mission impossible: a dangerous and humiliating mission in Bosnia has called the UN's international peacekeeping role into question.(includes related articles)
October 6, 1995... SARAJEVO, Bosnia - Dug into a muddy trench on Mount Igman, above the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, Matthew Lea gets the order he never thought he'd hear. Just before 5 a.m. on a chilly morning in August, the 19-year-old gunner loads a...

Spoiling the party: as the United Nations celebrates its 50th anniversary, stinging criticism from U.S. politicians is marring the festivities.
October 6, 1995... On October 22, 180 presidents, kings, and prime ministers from around the world will converge on the United Nations headquarters in New York City for a dazzling celebration marking the organization's 50th anniversary. But as the celebration...

The air was filled with hope.(history of the United Nations)
October 6, 1995... The birth of the United Nations at the end of World War II was greeted with euphoria by a war-weary world. After a difficult half century, is it time to reevaluate what the UN can do? During the spring of 1945, the last act of a brutal war was...

Growing pains: our generation faces a world of dangers our parents never dreamed of.(younger generation)
October 6, 1995... Violence, drugs, AIDS - it's all part of coming of age in the '90s. John Fedota, of Evanston, Illinois, says it's a different, more dangerous world than the one his parents grew up in. Last spring, as a senior at Evanston Township High School,...

World atlas.(maps of the world)(Illustration)
October 20, 1995... If someone had asked you a few years ago to locate Bosnia on a map, could you have found it? You might have said, "Who cares?" Today, the United States is deeply involved in efforts to end the civil war there. The world is now such a small,...

World almanac.(world statistics)(Illustration)
October 20, 1995... You may never watch CNN, but people in Venezuela do. You may not listen to Green Day's latest CD, but people in Australia do. You may never drink Coke, but people in Cambodia do. Through global communication and trade, farflung parts of the world...

Reading between the lines.(interpreting world statistics)
October 20, 1995... Statistics look like a series of cold, hard facts. But if you know how to interpret them, they can offer great insight into a nation and its challenges. Here are some ways to analyze the data. AREA AND POPULATION: Taken together, area and...