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UNIT ONE 1

1.What Women Do Better 1

2.Women and Work 6

3.Women:Invisible Cages 19

UNIT TWO 31

4.No Home in Africa 31

5.A Swimming Lesson 37

6.Black Men and Public Space 46

7.Best of British Youth 56

UNIT THREE 56

8.Happiness and Wealth 62

9.Our Way of Life Makes Us Miserable 70

UNIT FOUR 83

10.Television:The Great Time-Eating Machine 83

11.Books,TV,and the Imagination 89

12.What Did Kids Do before Television Was Invented? 100

UNIT FIVE 109

13.The Land of Disney 109

14.The End of an Era 115

15.Time to End False Rumors 122

UNIT SIX 132

16.Monday:Why So Unpopular? 132

17.How It Feels to Be Out of Work 138

18.Workaholics 146

UNIT SEVEN 161

19.Abandoned before Death 161

20.Music Is Good Medicine 166

21.Gene of the Week 174

22.The Future of Football 184

UNIT EIGHT 184

23.Thrill Seekers 189

24.Sport and the American Dream 197

UNIT NINE 206

25.Preserving Our Planet 206

26.Man s Role on Earth 211

27.Will Our World Survive? 219

UNIT TEN 234

28.One World,One Economy? 234

29.Learning to Love the Euro 239

30.The Spirit of Adam Smith 246

UNIT ELEVEN 254

31.The Story of English 254

32.What Makes a Global Language? 262

33.Language on the Skids 271

UNIT TWELVE 280

34.A Warning from Nature? 280

35.It s Official:the Earth Is Getting Hotter 286

36.Spring 293

37.Cities of the Future 303

UNIT THIRTEEN 303

38.A Merging Metropolis 308

39.If London Cleans Its Air and Water,Why Can t Our Large Cities? 317

UNIT FOURTEEN 329

40.A Feast for the Ears 329

41.The Voice of America 338

42. 90s Rock:A Mess,but Not Bad 344

UNIT FIFTEEN 353

43.The Ultimate Fate 353

44.How Planets Are Born? 357

45.What Do We Know about the Universe? 367

UNIT SIXTEEN 381

46.Advice to Youth 381

47.Electronic Tutors 387

48.Cheating on the Campus:Who s Really to Blame? 399

UNIT SEVENTEEN 408

49.Cars:On a Road to Nowhere 408

50.Orwell Got It Wrong 413

51.Digital Delivery 420

52.Nonverbal Communication 429

UNIT EIGHTEEN 429

53.In Other Words 436

54.The Truth about Lying 447

UNIT NINETEEN 457

55.Will Cloning End Human Evolution? 457

56.Man s Brief Reign in the Evolutionary Spotlight 462

57.Aping Language 470

UNIT TWENTY 479

58.Futurist Lessons from Thomas Jefferson 479

59.The Future of Money 484

60.Leadership for the Next Century 492