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1 A French Boy's Adventure in Canada 1

2 The Whale 5

4 How Well Do You See? 13

5 A Roof Over Our Heads 17

3 Entineers of the Woods 19

6 Ozone:Thinning of the Ozone Layer 21

7 Telling the Time 24

8 Walking in Space 28

9 Life on Mars? 32

10 Artificial Waterways 36

11 Beauty on the Wing 40

12 The Secluded Life 44

13 Magic 48

14 Is Modern Art a Load of Rubbish? 52

15 Paper and Green Consumerisn 57

16 Laser;Different Types 59

17 The First Nuclear Reactor 63

18 Political Power 67

19 Diet:Its Contribut on to Good Health 71

20 The "Unsinkable"Titanic 75

21 Electron Microscopy via the Internet 79

22 Moral Evil and Human Nature 82

23 Mind-Body Problem 86

24 Psychology:Experiments on Perception 91

25 Neutron:Life Span 95

26 Geology and the South American Civilizations 98

27 Dinosaur:Coloning form Preserved DNA 102

28 Pigeon and Dove 107

29 Oil:Are We Looking in the Right Place? 112

30 Euthanasia 116

31 Love 120

32 Charles Darwin 124

33 Extinction:A Race Against Time 130

34 Energy Resources 134

35 Civeil Rights 138

36 Discorery of X-Rays 142

37 American Civil War:Causes 146

38 Gun-Control in the UKand US 150

39 Post-Modernist Design and Architecture 156

40 Exploration;the Age of Discovery 160

41 Upgrading 166

42 Science and Religion 170

43 Business Cycle 174

44 Abraham Lincoln 179

45 Habit and Addiction 182

46 Measuting the Speed of Light 186

47 DNA:Discovery of the Structure of DNA 190

48 Thomas Alva Edison 194

49 Fishing:Declining Stocks 198

50 Artificial Blood:Risky Blood 201

51 Mathematics and Computing 205

52 Forests: the Hunt for Sustainability 209

53 ChaosTheory:the Mathematics of Chaos 213

54 Frech Revolution 216

55 Middle East Peace Process 221

56 Gandhi and Indian Nationalism 225

57 Penlcillin:Discovery 229

58 Whaling 233

59 Air Transpory and the Environment 237

60 Digital Future 241

61 World Trade Organization 244

62 Causes of Great Depression 247

63 Urban Design in the 20th Century 251

64 Madness 255

65 European Union:A Single Currency 260

66 Happiness 263

Key to the Exercises 268

Appendix 274