Lesson One Life Skills 1
Lesson Two Wanted:Shift Managers 8
Lesson Three What Is Folk Art? 14
Lesson Four Holiday on Ice:Arctic Rooms at 23°F 19
Lesson Five Chance or Probability 24
Lesson Six Ordeal in a Frozen Wilderness 30
Lesson Seven Endangered Species:Birds 37
Lesson Eight Four Minutes that Get You Hired 42
Lesson Nine All Creatures that on Earth Do Dwell 50
Lesson Ten Help Your Man Lose Weight 57
Lesson Eleven Mallaise:How to Know If You Have It 64
Lesson Twelve On Reading 71
Lesson Thirteen Why You Wear What You Wear 78
Lesson Fourteen The Final Thrust 84
Lesson Fifteen How to Deal with Teen(Dark)Agers 90
Lesson Sixteen Relearning the Lessons of Grammar 95
Lesson Seventeen Deforestation 101
Lesson Eighteen The Urge to Conform 107
Lesson Nineteen The Acid Rain Problem 115
Lesson Twenty Travelers Debate Value of Business-Class Rooms 123
Lesson Twenty-One The Poisoned Amazon 128
Lesson Twenty-Two Challenges for Global Agricultural Research 135
Lesson Twenty-Three Dan Quayle Was Right 142
Lesson Twenty-Four Miniature Adults 148
Lesson Twenty-Five A Cure 156
Lesson Twenty-Six The Long Watch 164
Lesson Twenty-Seven The Open Barn Door 171
Lesson Twenty-Eight Sorting Out the Men of Letters 178
Lesson Twenty-Nine The Next Wasteland 185
Lesson Thirty First Nation in Cyberspace 192
Lesson Thirty-One The Garbage Industry 198
Lesson Thirty-Two Green Taxes 206
Lesson Thirty-Three Poisoned by a Hail of Lead 213
Lesson Thirty-Four Rural Rush 219
Lesson Thirty-Five The Attraction of a Magnetic Beach 226
Lesson Thirty-Six The Complexity Problem 232
Lesson Thirty-Seven Reinventing the Robot 238
Lesson Thirty-Eight Dance of the E1ectronic Bee 244
Lesson Thirty-Nine The Price of Light 251
Lesson Forty Spawning Jazz,Blues and Poverty 256
Lesson Forty-One Debating the Dress Code 263
Lesson Forty-Two Letters from Readers 268
Lesson Forty-Three Patent Fever Grips U.S.Inventors 273
Lesson Forty-Four For Russians,a Thinning of the Flanks 279
Lesson Forty-Five Managing Jet Lag 284
Lesson Forty-Six Automakers Tackle Issue of Affordability 288
Lesson Forty-Seven Sex:It s All in Your Brain 294
Lesson Forty-Eight Teaching Teachers 299
Lesson Forty-Nine Acer s Approach:Employee Investors 305
Lesson Fifty Treasury Hopes New-Look Dollar Can t Be Copied 311
Lesson Fifty-One Asia s Anti-AIDS Crusade 317
Lesson Fifty-Two Can t Reach Your Doctor?Try E-Mail 324
Lesson Fifty-Three Split Opinions over Avoiding Divorce 330
Lesson Fifty-Four Advertisers Plaster Names on City s Face 335
Lesson Fifty-Five Cost-Conscious Shoppers Seek Secondhand 342
Lesson Fifty-Six Surf s Up for New-Wave Bankers 349
Lesson Fifty-Seven Hotel Management:A Five-Star Career 356
Lesson Fifty-Eight Digital Money Opens Way to Cashless Global Trading 361
Lesson Fifty-Nine Tarnished Trophies 368
Lesson Sixty Brave New Work 375
Vocabulary 382