1.The Workhouse 1
2.Computerized Air-Traffic Control 7
3.Health 13
4.Birth of Nike Footwear 18
5.They Created Jet Age 24
6.The Economic Role of the Government:What Should the Government Do? 30
7.The Professor,the University and Industry 38
8.Gorilla Is Not as Mean as It Looks 46
9.Acid Rain:What's the Solution? 53
10.Florence Nightingale 60
11.Antarctic Exploration 67
12.Black Holes 73
13.A Talk About Careers with an Airline 79
14.Life Without Fuel 86
15.Jefferson Today 93
16.Why I Love Wisconsin 102
17.Across The Sea of Stars 111
18.Twins,Genes,And Environment 120
19.The Death of a Lone Oak 129
20.Before Opening Night 137
21.The World's Garbage Crisis:Is Recycling the Answer? 146
22.Deck The Tree With Lots of Money,It's Christmas Time 153
23.Good Food,Good Shows:America's Dinner Theaters 161
24.Dance of the Electronic Bee 169
25.Why Are You Laughing? 177
26.A Case of Suspicion 186
27.My Friend,Albert Einstein 193
28.Four Generations 202
29.The Risk of Climate Change Is Genuine and Serious 210
30.Blue Jeans 219
31.A Scientist Looks at Tomorrow 228
32.You Need More Than a Typewriter 237
33.Most Popular Characters 245
34.Pressing the Flesh Online 254
35.Nature,Nurture and a Pinch of Salt 262
36.The Earth Will Don an Electronic Skin 271
37.The Perils of the Biotech Century 280
38.Physicist Albert Einstein 289
39.All Change for the E-lance Economy 298
40.The Staggering Giants 307
41.The Internet in The Future 316
42.Under the Weather 326
43.Smart Phones 336
Answer Keys 347