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Articles in Feb 6, 2004 issue of Current Events

• Just the facts - News Review - current events quiz
• Side trip - treatment helps boy from Northern Ireland fight variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• Geo quest - home of the hamburger
• A colossal mistake? - News Cartoon - Statue of Liberty
• What's the beef? Mad Cow disease hits the United States
• Using primary sources - letter from civil rights activist Daisy Bates to secretary of the NAACP, 1957 - school desegragation, Arkansas
  by Daisy Bates
• Word link - News Review - identifying synonyms
• Philly gone silly: the spirit of 1776
• Out of hand? New U.S. fingerprinting policy has some people up in arms - News Debate - U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology
• News graph of the week - statistics on international visitors to the United States
• Lessons learned: the battle to integrate Central High School - Special Report - history and dramatization of discrimination faced by one of the first African American students to enter formerly all-white high school, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957