1. Science and Technology - The Paradox of Progress:
a. The Internet Revolution http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/Chem-History/Hist-of-Web.html b. Health http://www.who.int/aboutwho/en/disease_er.htm and Disease http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s66.htm c. Environmental Challenges http://worldbank.org/nipr/work_paper/RaceWP1.pdf d. Nuclear Proliferation http://www.ceip.org/programs/npp/global.htm e. Genetic Engineering http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/
2. Economic Trends - Widening Gaps:
a. North-South Imbalance http://www.dse.de/zeitschr/de100-4.htm and http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/anarcf.htm b. The Population Bomb http://www.oneworld.org/patp/pap_8_1/haub.htm c. The Asian Economic Collapse http://mesharpe.com/katz.htm d. Globalization Revisited http://www.comlink.apc.org/fic/newslett/eng/nl27/bolrob.htm and http://www.ensu.ucalgary.ca/~terry/luddite/sale.html
3. Social and Political Trends:
a. Women at the Year 2000 http://www.un.org/Conferences/Women/PubInfo/Status/Home.htm b. Minority Rights http://sqzm14.ust.hk/hkgay/news/manifesto.html c. The Spread of Democracy http://faculty.washington.edu/modelski/ d. The Strength of Authoritarianism http://www.marx2mao.org//Mao/WRPC28.html#s2 e. Politics and Ethnicity http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/divers.htm
4. International Relations - One World or Many:
a. International Cooperation http://worldpolicy.org/walker.html b. Nationalism http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/Elberg/Soyinka/soyinka-con0.html and Regional Identities http://www.oneworld.net/themes/topic/index.html?doc_url=topic_123_1.shtml c. World Government? http://www.cgg.ch/foreword.htm
5. Cultural Trends:
a. Culture Shock http://daphne.palomar.edu/change/change_4.htm b. Westernization http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/world_lectures/mazrui_sum.shtml and "Indigenization"http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/barjiha.htm c. Cultural Homogenization http://www.ensu.ucalgary.ca/~terry/luddite/sale.html
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