1.Early Autumn 1
2.Fit or Fat? 4
3.The Influence of Advertisements 8
4.Who's More Romantic? 12
5.Burgled Seven Times 14
6.Technological Literacy 18
7.Break the Ice 21
8.Sharks:Their Physiology and Their Role in Cancer Research 25
9.Tornadoes 28
10.One Environment,Many Worlds 30
11.The Meanings of the Kiss 34
12.Remembering and Forgetting 37
13.The Poor Slob 41
14.Human Aggression 44
15.Making Room 48
16.A Traffic Light is a Brainless Machine 51
17.Aunt Ethel 54
18.Noah Webster 57
19.A Revolution in Trousers 61
20.A Young Boy Saves the Declaration of Independence 65
21.Working Hard or Hardly Working? 70
22.Making Your Messages Follow You Anywhere in the World 73
23.The Cost of a Wife is ￡240 a Week 76
24.Our First Words 79
25.Cold-Storage for Vital Valuables 82
26.Religions in the United States 85
27.Culture Shock 88
28.Pains—It's All in the Mind 92
29.Johnny's Failures in Science and Math Have U.S.Worried 95
30.Personal Space 99
KEY 104
GLOSSARY 105
PHRASES 118