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Contents 1

Unit 1 English as a Computer Language 1

Unit 2 A Street Education in New Delhi 16

Unit 3 The Sound of Silence 31

Unit 4 Crossing the Line:Steven Spielberg s“List” 45

Reading Test 1 A Doll s House 60

Unit 5 We ll Never Conquer Space 68

Unit 6 Organized Crime 82

Unit 7 Your Child s Brain 95

Unit 8 The Struggle for an Education 113

Reading Test 2 Thomas Jefferson s Perfect Mansion 129

Unit 9 Daylight Saving:More Than a Trick of Time 137

Unit 10 A Right to Die 154

Unit 11 What s Wrong with Our Weather 170

Unit 12 Universality of Science and InternationalCooperation 188

Reading Test 3 The Second Information Revolution 205

Unit 13 Making Both Ends Meet 213

Unit 14 Depression:What You Should Know 227

Unit 15 Abraham Lincoln 243

Unit 16 True Love 261

Reading Test 4 A Theory of the Panic 276

Unit 17 Lightning 283

Unit 18 VW and Fiat:German Flair Versus Italian 297

Reliability 297

Unit 19 How to Grow Old 311

Unit 20 On the Meaning of Work 324

Reading Test 5 Aerogels:Through a Glass Lightly 341

Unit 21 Three Days to See 349

Unit 22 Diogenes and Alexander 365

Reading Test 6 Computer Addicts 381

Keys to the Exercises 394