21st+Century+Americans+(Group+2)

 =Group 2009-10.1.2.B=

Group members

 * ====Rebecca Enrooth====
 * ====Meghan Rook====

2. __21st Century World at a Glance__

 * Gas Crisis
 *  Poverty in Africa
 *  Cloning- scientific expansion
 * Global warming

4. __Ten Milestones of the Late 20th and 21st Century__

 * 1986-  William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
 * 1988-  Jesse Jackson seeks the Democratic party nomination
 * 1990-  Iraq invades Kuwait
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1991-  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Boris Yeltsin elected President of Russia
 * <span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1994-  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa
 * <span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1996-  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"Ebonics" becomes its own language
 * <span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1998-  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The "smart car" is produced
 * <span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2001-  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Terrorist attacks on the World trade Centers in NYC
 * <span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2008- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Barack Obama becomes President of the United States of America
 * <span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2009-  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The spread of the fatal H1N1 virus

5. __Prominent Figures of Today__

 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 91%; text-align: left;">Tiger Woods
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 91%; text-align: left;">Shawn Johnson
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">J.K. Rowling
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Angelina Jolie
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">George Clooney
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oprah
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tyra Banks
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bill Gates
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Donald Trump
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__Dalai Lama__
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sean "Diddy" Combs

7. __Obituaries__

 * Jim Henson
 * Mother Teresa
 * Kirby Puckett
 * Harold Stassen
 * Jackie Kennedy Onasis

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