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Conventions used in this book 7

Introduction 8

1 Watchingth chidren(BrE) 12

2 Pop Art absurdists(BrE) 16

3 The man Who discovered Britain(AmE) 20

4 Heroic failures(BrE) 24

5 Little queens sweep the board(BrE) 28

6 The cup that cheers(BrE) 32

7 Junket for robbers was police trap(BrE) 36

8 Roman regimental brewery(BrE) 40

9 Plane-load of 400 lobsters(8rE) 44

10 A-Levels or flm?(BrE) 48

11 Memories of a great actress(BrE) 52

12 La belle Monique(BrE) 56

13 Patagonia(BrE) 60

14 You’re Marlowe?(AmE) 64

15 You can’t teach managers(BrE) 68

16 An English lesson(BrE) 72

17 Minty(BrE) 76

18 ‘The criminal look’(BrE) 80

19 Alaska’s dirty dollars(BrE) 84

20 Fire message in plain English(BrE) 88

21 Another day begins(AmE) 92

22 Patients get the message(BrE) 96

23 Spot of mutiny on the high Cs(BrE) 100

24 Homeopathy(BrE) 104

25 Decision-thinking(BrE) 108

26 Pigeons’not so bird-brained’(BrE) 112

27 First impressions(AmE) 116

28 Sherlock Holmes(BrE) 120

29 Breaking the Portland Vase(BrE) 124

30 FaK-mad New Yorkers(BrE) 128

31 Japan’s underground frontier(AmE) 132

32 Schooldays(Canadian) 136

33 Our tribal past(BrE) 140

34 Village women (BrE) 144

35 Dreams and nightmares(AmE) 148

36 Armageddon larder(BrE) 152

37 Alzheimer’s telltale protein(AmE) 156

38 Drug-war overkill(AmE) 160

39 Garbage(AmE) 164

40 The Japanese sense of beauty(BrE) 168

41 Two topics of conversation(BrE) 172

42 Invasion of the data snatchers!(AmE) 176

43 The thoughts of Henry Wilt(BrE) 180

44 Dinosaurs on a tidal Wave?(BrE) 184

45 When mothers work(AmE) 188

46 Peter(BrE) 192

47 Life on a desert island(BrE) 196

48 The crowd(AmE) 200

49 All politics is local(AmE) 204

50 What is the soul?(BrE) 208

51 The ultimate quest(AmE) 212

52 Henry Ford(AmE) 216

53 The healer(BrE) 220

54 Tax(AmE) 224

55 The Marquess of Queensberry(AmE) 228

56 The center of our galaxy(AmE) 232

57 Mrs Radcliffe(BrE) 236

58 Spiders(Australian) 240

59 My mother(BrE) 244

60 Forbidding frut(BrE) 248

Text references 252

Grammar terms and concepts 266

structural index 292