Unit One Economics 1
1.Evaluating Good Corporate Citizenship 1
2.The Cost of Survival 8
3.Crisis in Confidence:The China Factor 13
Unit Two Environment 19
1.How Do You Junk Your Computer? 19
2.Greenhouse Effect,R.I.P. 28
3.In Plan to Help a Forest Heal,a Wider Rift Opens 35
Unit Three War 40
1.Looking Hard for an Enemy—and for Better News 40
2.The New Words of War 49
3.The PLA,the Pentagon,and Politics 55
Unit Four Science and Technology 62
1.Is Someone Spying on You? 62
2. Lethal Formula in Anthrax Mail Points to Labs of 3 Countries 69
3.The Global Epidemic of Drug Resistance 76
Unit Five Education 82
1.Know Much about Science Books? 82
2.Making the Grade 90
3.Group Plans Asian College for Women in Poverty 96
Unit Six Society 101
1.Who Owns You? 101
2.Lack of Oversight in Tissue Donation Raising Concerns 108
3.Bill's Biggest Bet Yet 117
Unit Seven Government 128
1.Win-Win Governance? 128
2.Progress against Corruption 135
3.Legal Personhood Animals 141
Unit Eight Sports 146
1.Winning Respect 146
2.Grudge Match 153
3.Life,Liberty,and the Pursuit of Nothingness 160
Key to the Exercises 167