CROSS-CULTURAL CONNECTIONS 1
1．Kissing Your Way around the World 3
2．International Gesture Dictionary 9
3．The Bean Cake and the Broom 15
Tying It All Together 25
More Information 26
Answer Key 28
PLAYING TO WIN 31
1．Looking Back 33
2．Following a Dream 38
3．On Top of Her Game 46
4．The Olympic Games 50
Tying It All Together 56
More Information 57
Answer Key 61
UNIVERSAL MYSTERIES 63
1．The Mystery Statues of Easter Island 65
2．The Nazca Lines 71
3．Frozen in Time 76
4．NASA Listens for Space Aliens 82
Tying It All Together 88
More Information 89
Answer Key 93
OUR FRAGILE PLANET 95
1．One Family with the Earth 97
2．Too Many Mouths to Feed? 102
3．Our Endangered Wildlife 108
Tying It All Together 116
More Information 117
Answer Key 120
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS 123
1．Levi′s Gold 125
2．Smells Sell! 131
3．The Gender-Spender Gap 137
4．Nothing but the Truth 140
Tying It All Together 146
More Information 147
Answer Key 149
THE POWER OF MUSIC 151
1．Slow Music Soothes the Savage Appetite 153
2．How Muzak Manipulates You 155
3．Ray Charles 160
4．Music′s Surprising Power to Heal 163
Tying It All Together 169
More Information 170
Answer Key 174
ARE YOU SUPERSTITIOUS? 175
1．Superstitions 177
2．Knock on Wood 184
3．What Will Tomorrow Bring? 187
4．It′s Jinxed! 191
Tying It All Together 194
More Information 195
Answer Key 196
OUR SHRINKING WORLD 199
1．Jobs in a Shrinking World 201
2．Franglais?No Way! 205
3．The Benefits of Multilingualism 209
Tying It All Together 214
More Information 215
Answer Key 218