Understanding Today's News. Latest Articles. Other Issues i

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Issues Controversies

• What is Issues Controversies?
• Opposing viewpoints and factual analysis
• of current hot topics.
• Features
• Cover Story highlights lead story
• Understanding Todays News
• Latest Articles
• Other Issues in the Headlines with background
  information on topics in news
• Indexes
• Articles A to Z alphabetically listing of every
  article within the database
• Pro and Con summarized todays key issues
• Special Features
• By the numbers statistics
• Interviews with experts
• Newspaper Editorials and Source Documents with
  links from articles
• For Educators suggested activities with templates

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Issues Controversies

• Full Text Search
• Enter any word or combination of words
• in the Search Box
• Enter more than one search term, finds articles
  containing all terms entered
• Click Go
• Or Click on Latest Articles and Headlines

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Issues Controversies

• Results List
• Number of articles retrieved
• Search terms
• Click on any article title
• to view article
• Arranged by date with most recent article first

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Issues Controversies

• Other Types of Searches
• Boolean Operators And, Or, Not
• safety and school finds articles with all
  terms, safety as well as school
• safety or school finds either of search terms,
  safety or school or both
• safety not school finds articles with excluded
  term, safety but not school
• Wildcard Search Character
• hand - finds handle, handout, hands, etc
• Phrase Search double quotations defining exact
  phrase
• white house finds articles with white house
  together as phrase but not a story with white
  three-bedroom house
• Search Options
• Title field search finds articles with search
  term(s) in title only
• Date range search choose dates using pull down
  menu
• Repeat Search
• Click on Search History previous ten searches
  displayed
• Vary search by adding or changing terms, dates,
  title search
• Click on gray search button

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• Results
• Search terms in RED
• Chapter headings
• Links
• To other articles on topic
• Sidebars smaller articles
• Related Articles related material
• Key News Events related material from Facts on
  File Word News Digest
• Overviews background information
• Newsmaker Profiles

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Issues Controversies

• Print
• Hit the Print/Citation icon
• to display article without
• graphic heading
• Print using Print Command
• under file on Internet Browser menu bar
• Print using Print icon
• Or Email article