Unit 1 1
Text A How I Got Smart 1
Text B Coming of Age 21
Text C Romance and Reality 35
Unit 2 40
Text A The Titanic Puzzle 40
Text B Unjust Desserts 62
Text C Will You Go Out with Me? 67
Text A The Sense of Wonder 71
Unit 3 71
Text B The Innocent Eye 88
Text C If I Were 21 97
Unit 4 100
Text A College Pressures 100
Text B College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening? 116
Text C What Is College for? 126
Unit 5 129
Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A: America Seen with European Eyes 129
Text B American Values and Assumptions 150
Text C A Foreign Anthropologist s Observation of Americans 163
Unit 6 167
Text A Every 23 Minutes 167
Text B Needed: A License to Drink 177
Text C My Daughter Smokes 195
Unit 7 198
Text A So What s So Bad about Being So-So? 198
Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness 214
Text C Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job 226
Text A The Highs of Low Technology 230
Unit 8 230
Text B Why I m Not Going to Buy a Computer 242
Text C Obsolete Technology 251
Unit 9 254
Text A Space Politics 254
Text B Message to the Unknown 262
Text C Your Future in Space 270
Unit 10 272
Text A Plain Talk about Handing Stress 272
Text B Energy Walks 283
Text C Five Methods I Have Used to Banish Worry 293