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1. Drama for Grades 8 - 10 (British Columbia Ministry of Education)
   Provides lessons on Exploration and Imagination (Critical Analysis), Drama Skills (Body and Voice), (Role), (Drama as Metaphor), (Elements and Structures), (Technique), Context (Social and Cultural Context) and (Making Connections). These materials are called an Integrated Resource Package.

2. Dramatic New Evidence of a Planet in Another Solar System (The Scotsman)
   "Astronomers said there was an 'odds-on' chance of intelligent life in space after new observations produced the best evidence yet of planets circling stars outside our solar system."
   
   "A team led by the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (ATC) in Edinburgh announced yesterday that they had found the dusty wake of a Saturn-like planet around one of the brightest stars in the sky."
   
   Professor Ian Robson said that the new tool used, with specially-cooled camera called SCUBA, 'will revolutionize our search for evidence of planetary systems.' "10-02

3. The Sun - Dramatic Pictures (NASA)
   Provides pictures of sun using different methods of photography. 1-05

4. Top Rated Dramas and "Luminaries" (IMDB.com)
   Provides a list of the top 10 rated by IMDB. (Other surveys will result in different lists). The movies include The Godfather (1972), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Godfather: Part II (1974), Shichinin no samurai (1954), Schindler's List (1993), Casablanca (1942), Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966), Sanshô dayû (1954),# Pulp Fiction (1994), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). The luminaries include George Cukor, Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, William Wyler, David Lean, Jack Nicholson, Ingrid Bergman, Elia Kazan, Milos Forman, and James L. Brooks.

5. -11-01-05 Dramatic Closed Session in the Senate (MSNBC News)
   "On a quiet Indian summer afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid dramatically wrenched the political agenda from the Republican majority Monday by forcing the Senate into secret session."
   
   "Reid’s gambit was designed to prod Republicans to agree to speed up 'Phase II' of the investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, into how spy data was used or misused in the prelude to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003." 11-05

6. -Study: Free Contraceptives Dramatically Reduce Abortion Rate (NBC News)
   "When more than 9,000 women ages 14 to 45 in the St. Louis area were given no-cost contraception for three years, abortion rates dropped from two-thirds to three-quarters lower than the national rate, according to a new report by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis researchers." 10-12

7. Literature by Source (Liu - Voice of the Shuttle)
   Provides hundreds of resources in drama, fiction, and poetry. Includes resources to improve writing skills. 8-02

8. Literature by Genre (Liu - Voice of the Shuttle)
   Provides hundreds of resources in drama, fiction, and poetry. Includes resources to improve writing skills. 8-02

9. Performing Arts and Theatre

10. Astronomy Picture of the Day
    Provides dramatic photos of celestial phenomena.

11. Warm-Up Activities for Theatre (Kids 4 Broadway)
    Provides warm-up activities to prepare children age 7-17 for drama roles. Includes pantomime, mirror exercise, tug of war, and bean bag. 12-00

12. Dying Star Image (Yahoo)
    Provides a dramatic photo of a dying star, Menzel 3 or Mz3, that looks like a rainbow-colored ant and challenges theories about how stars die. 2-01

13. Architecture - Great Buildings and Structures (About.com - Craven)
    Provides examples of some of the most dramatic buildings and structures. 3-01

14. Leonids (NASA)
    Describes the Leonid meteorite shower in 2001, provides a dramatic photo of the event, and provides a diagram that shows the history of the showers. 11-01

15. 01-25-03 International Internet Attack Stopped (USAToday.com)
    "A fast-spreading, virus-like infection dramatically slowed Internet traffic Saturday, overwhelming the world's digital pipelines and interfering with Web browsing and e-mail delivery." 1-03

16. Latino Culture Strong in the United States (BBC News)
    "Three years ago, Latinos became the largest ethnic minority in the US - and the rise in their numbers is having an increasingly dramatic effect on American culture." 1-04

17. Greenspan: Reduce Social Security Benefits (CNN News)
    "Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan urged Congress on Wednesday to deal with the country's escalating budget deficit by cutting benefits for future Social Security retirees rather than raising taxes."
    
    "In testimony before the House Budget Committee, Greenspan said the current deficit situation, with a projected record red ink of $521 billion this year, will worsen dramatically once the baby boom generation starts becoming eligible for Social Security benefits in just four years."
    
    "In his prepared testimony, Greenspan said pushing taxes up enough to meet future spending promises under Social Security and Medicare might pose a risk to the overall economy."
    
    " 'We are going to be confronted ... in a few years with an upward ratcheting of long-term interest rates which will be very debilitating for long-term growth,' Greenspan told the committee if the deficit problem is not addressed." 2-04
    

18. 06-02-04 Biggest Humanitarian Crisis of Our Time (CNN News)
    "Millions of men, women and children may die in the Darfur region of Sudan unless there is an immediate outpouring of international aid, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday."
    
    "U.N. Emergency Coordinator Jan Egeland last week called the situation in Darfur 'the biggest humanitarian drama of our time.' "
    
    " 'This is the most dramatic race against the clock that we have anywhere in the world at the moment,' he said. 'If we lose, hundreds of thousands of women and children, mostly, will perish.' " 6-04

19. The Alliance for Democracy (TheAllianceforDemocracy.org)
    "The Alliance believes the development of a full public funding system is the crucial domestic reform of our age and that the achievement of such a system will dramatically improve the health of our democracy -- a democracy that is being smothered under the weight of large corporations and the private interests they embody."

20. Winfrey, Oprah (GaleGroup.com)
    Provides an extended biography.
    
    "One of the most influential projects Winfrey has tackled is literacy. The on-air reading club she started in September 1996, 'Oprah's Book Club,' boosted book sales so dramatically that Winfrey quickly became the most important book marketer in any communications medium." 1-05