Gale is continually updating and adding new content to ourIn Contextproducts, ensuring that they offer timely, authoritative, useful information. The items below were added or updated during the week ofSeptember 29, 2014.
Biography in Context
- 21 new people portalpages have been added, bringing the total number to4,499.Highlights include:
- Amy Van Dyken, Olympic swimmer making a remarkable recovery after severing her spine in an ATV accident in June
- Anthony S. Fauci, the noted American immunologist who has been a leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS
- British actorStephen Moyer, ofTrue Bloodfame
- S. SenatorDianne Feinstein(D-California), whose work has included gun control; she was also San Francisco’s first female mayor
- Paul Pierce, an American basketball player who was traded to the NBA’s Washington Wizards in June
- Laura Hillenbrand, author ofSeabiscuitandUnbroken –both novels have been adapted for film
Canada in Context
- 3 new portal pageshave been added:
- Inuit
- Ontario (spotlighted on the homepage)
- Alberta (spotlighted on the homepage)
- A spotlight on Avril Lavigne has also been added to the homepage.
- A video on Rob Ford is now featured on the homepage.
Global Issues in Context
- 48 portal pageshave been updated, including:
- Conventional Weapons Trafficking
- Ebola
- Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
- Nuclear Energy
- Piracy at Sea
- Space Exploration
- Terrorism
- United Kingdom
Science in Context.
- Three new portal pagesare now live:
- Atmospheric Chemistry
- MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
- Computer Security
- 14 portal pageshave been updated. Examples include:
- Air Pollution
- Alternative and Renewable Energy
- Biological and Chemical Weapons
- Cancer
- Climate and Weather
- Diabetes
- Earth
- Two new portal pageshave been added:
- Peace Corps
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution
- Three new homepage spotlight imagesappear andare tied to the following portal pages:
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- Malcolm X
- Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion.
- Anew homepage video– an interview with baseball’s Bob Feller – has also been added.
World History in Context
- Two new portal pageshave been added:
- Mary Leakey
- Louis Leakey
- Two new homepage spotlight imagesalso appear andare tied to the following portal pages:
- Sigmund Freud
- Poland since 1921.
Nice too see this!