Unit One 1
Text A How I Got Smart 2
Text B Coming of Age 23
Text C Romance and Reality 30
Unit Two 35
Text A The Titanic Puzzle Should a good feminist accept priority seating on a lifeboat? 36
Text B Unjust Desserts 55
Text C Will You Go Out with Me? 62
Unit Three 67
Text A The Sense of Wonder 68
Text B The Innocent Eye 86
Text C If I Were 21 94
Unit Four 97
Text A College Pressures 98
Text B College Lectures:Is Anybody Listening? 116
Text C What Is College for? 124
Unit Five 129
Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A.:America Seen with European Eyes 130
Text B American Values and Assumptions 149
Text C A Foreign Anthropologist s Observation of Americans 159
Unit Six 163
Text A Every 23Minutes 164
Text B Needed:A License to Drink 181
Text C My Daughter Smokes 190
Unit Seven 195
Text A So What s So Bad About Being So-So? 196
Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness 215
Text C Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job 223
Unit Eight 227
Text A The Highs of Low Technology 228
Text B Why I m Not Going to Buy a Computer 245
Text C Obsolete Technology 252
Unit Nine 257
Text A Space Politics 258
Text B Message to the Unknown 275
Text C Your Future in Space 283
Unit Ten 289
Text A Plain Talk About Handling Stress 290
Text B Energy Walks 307
Text C Five Methods I Have Used to Banish Worry 316
Glossary 321