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CROSS-CULTURAL CONNECTIONS 1

1．Kissing Your Way around the World 3

2．International Gesture Dictionary 9

3．The Bean Cake and the Broom 15

Tying It All Together 25

More Information 26

Answer Key 28

PLAYING TO WIN 31

1．Looking Back 33

2．Following a Dream 38

3．On Top of Her Game 46

4．The Olympic Games 50

Tying It All Together 56

More Information 57

Answer Key 61

UNIVERSAL MYSTERIES 63

1．The Mystery Statues of Easter Island 65

2．The Nazca Lines 71

3．Frozen in Time 76

4．NASA Listens for Space Aliens 82

Tying It All Together 88

More Information 89

Answer Key 93

OUR FRAGILE PLANET 95

1．One Family with the Earth 97

2．Too Many Mouths to Feed? 102

3．Our Endangered Wildlife 108

Tying It All Together 116

More Information 117

Answer Key 120

GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS 123

1．Levi′s Gold 125

2．Smells Sell! 131

3．The Gender-Spender Gap 137

4．Nothing but the Truth 140

Tying It All Together 146

More Information 147

Answer Key 149

THE POWER OF MUSIC 151

1．Slow Music Soothes the Savage Appetite 153

2．How Muzak Manipulates You 155

3．Ray Charles 160

4．Music′s Surprising Power to Heal 163

Tying It All Together 169

More Information 170

Answer Key 174

ARE YOU SUPERSTITIOUS? 175

1．Superstitions 177

2．Knock on Wood 184

3．What Will Tomorrow Bring? 187

4．It′s Jinxed! 191

Tying It All Together 194

More Information 195

Answer Key 196

OUR SHRINKING WORLD 199

1．Jobs in a Shrinking World 201

2．Franglais?No Way! 205

3．The Benefits of Multilingualism 209

Tying It All Together 214

More Information 215

Answer Key 218