Facts.com - Online Databases August Updates

Welcome to this late summer update to the Facts On File News Services. Students and staff can access the Facts On File News Service Databases from any computer on the Southwestern College campuses through the library's website at http://www.swccd.edu/~library/articles.htm . Below are highlights of some recent additions to these database(s).

For off campus access just request a copy of the off campus password list. Use the online Password Request Form at www.swccd.edu/~library/PasswordRequest/. Currently enrolled students will receive the list of passwords within minutes by email.

World News Digest
Rioting in Great Britain
Riots Spread Across London, Hit Other Cities

News Organization in the News
Focus On: Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire [ More Research Features]
Facts On Rupert Murdoch [ More Newsmaker Profiles]

Famine Declared in Parts of Somalia:
Somali Famine Zone Expands [ Other recent headlines]
East Africa Famine and Food Shortages Map [ More news illustrations]


U.S. Economic News and Features:
S&P Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating from AAA for First Time [ More economic coverage]
Budget and the National Debt [ More Key Issues]
Fixing the Ceiling [ More Editorial Cartoons]



Issues and Controversies
Recently Featured Controversies:
Medicare Funding: Should Medicare funding be trimmed in order to reduce the federal deficit, or would too many U.S. residents be hurt by such a move? [ More on medicine and health]

Digital Libraries: Should digitizing some of the world's greatest library collections be a public or a private endeavor? [ More on the arts and media]


Cartoon of the Month: Defense of Marriage Act: Defending Same-Sex Marriage? [ More Editorial Cartoons and Questions]


Issues and Controversies in American History
Recent Addition:
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter Act): Should the U.S. continue to control immigration through quotas by national origin, based on the ancestry of the existing U.S. population, or was that system discriminatory?




Documents Pro and Con: [All primary documents]
The Confessions of Nat Turner (Excerpt) vs. Sentence Against Nat Turner
Internal Security Act of 1950 (Excerpts) vs. President Truman's Veto of the Internal Security Act of 1950


Today's Science

Story of the Month:
The Spider and the Diving Bell [ More Science in the Headlines]
Top Report with Video:
Monkey Research Points to New HIV Vaccine [ More on AIDS and HIV]




Scientist of the Month:
Gregory Pederson, an ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's
Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center in Bozeman, Montana, analyzes tree rings to study climate change in Rockies Snowmelt: A Tale of Climate Change. [ More Conversations with Scientists]
Extremophiles: 'Worms from Hell': A Subterranean Ecosystem [ More on extreme biology]