Unit 1 1
Text A How I Got Smart 1
Text B Coming of Age 13
Text C Romance and Reality 21
Unit 2 45
Text A the Titanic Puzzle Should a good feminist accept priority seating on a lifeboat? 45
Text B Unjust Desserts 61
Text C Will You Go Out with Me? 69
Text A The Sense of Wonder 90
Unit 3 90
Text B The Innocent Eyes 105
Text C If I Were21 111
Unit 4 131
Text A College Pressures 131
Text B COllege Lectures:Is Anybody Listening? 143
Text C What Is College for? 149
Unit 5 171
Text A the ABCs of U.S.A.:America Seen with European Eyes 171
Text B American Values and Assumptions 185
Text C A Foreign Anthropologist s Obesrvation of Americans 195
Unit 6 218
Text A Every 23 Minutes 218
Text B Needed:A License to Drink 228
Text C My Daughter Smokes 239
Unit 7 261
Text A So What s So Bad About Being So-So? 261
Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness 277
Text C Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job 285
Text A the Highs of Low Technology 308
Unit 8 308
Text B Why I m Not Going to Buy a Computer 321
Text C Obsolete Technology 327
Unit 9 351
Text A Space Politics 351
Text B Message to the Unknown 363
Text C Your Future in Space 373
Unit 10 398
Text A Plain Talk About Handling Stress 398
Text B Energy Walks 412
Text C Five Methods I Have Used to Banish Worry 422