Unit One 1
Text A How I Got Smart 1
Text B Coming of Age 12
Unit Two 21
Text A The Titanic Puzzle Should a good feminist accept priority seating on a lifeboat? 21
Text B Unjust Desserts 37
Unit Three 43
Text A The Sense of Wonder 43
Text B The Innocent Eye 52
Unit Four 58
Text A College Pressures 58
Text B College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening? 70
Unit Five 78
Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A.: America Seen with European Eyes 78
Text B American Values and Assumptions 86
Unit Six 94
Text A Every 23 Minutes 94
Text B Needed: A License to Drink 100
Unit Seven 112
Text A So What s So bad about Being So-So? 112
Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness 120
Unit Eight 128
Text A The Highs of Low Technology 128
Text B Why I m Not Going to Buy a Computer 134
Unit Nine 139
Text A Space Politics 139
Text B Message to the Unknown 144
Unit Ten 151
Text A Plain Talk about Handling Stress 151
Text B Energy Walks 163