CONTENTS 3
Part One 3
1．One Car a Minute 3
2．A Matter of Honor 11
3．Man in Flight 18
4．The Open Boat 27
5．Twenty-First Century Science and Technology 35
6．Wings Across the Atlantic 43
7．The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones 50
8．The Story of Creative Men 57
9．Advertising 64
10．My Financial Career 72
11．Seeing People Off 78
12．An Inner-City Education 87
13．World Population Continues to Rise 94
14．Daddy Tucked the Blanket 105
15．The Midnight Visitor 113
16．The Coca-Cola Company s First Hundred Years 120
17．American s Life in the New Age of Science and Technology 128
18．Movies of Long Ago 136
19．Home 144
20．Six Economic Myths 153
21．Lord Peter s Party Trick 163
22．How to Relax in a Crowd 173
23．Knowledge and Wisdom 182
24．The Trouble with Fast Foods 190
25．The Role of Chance in Scientific Discovery 197
26．A Clean,Well-Lighted Place 205
27．Asia,a Major Exporter of Ideas 214
28．Hong Kong and China:Looking to the Future 221
29．Whv People Work 229
30．America s Secret Shame 241
31．Sculpture and Science:Unlikely Partners in CrimeDetection 250
32．The Art of Turning Failure into Success 259
33．Foods That Sharpen Your Mind 272
34．How to Snack Your Way to Great Shape 280
35．The Snob 289
36．Julian s Last Hope 299
37．How the Camera Fights Crime 309
38．Your and Your Memory 316
39．Warning!This House Contains Radon 330
40．The Next Giant Leap for Mankind 338
41．Attack from the Ocean Deep 345
42．Life on Other Planets 355
43．The World House 363
44．Self-Identification and Self-Expression 373
45．A Right to Die 381
46．An Address on Food and Resources 389
47．The Art of Teaching Science 402
48．Education and Social Change 414
49．What s in Paycheck Varies with Skill,Schooling, Sex 424
50．Blacks Return to Africa but U.S.Is Home 435
51．Triplets...And They Didn t Know It 444
52．We re Tongue-Tied 454
53．Tarahumara:Runners of the West 462
54．The Light Way 473
55．Would Americans Man Death Camps? 481
56．Health 492
57．Masculine Expression of Emotion 498
58．Marketing in the Future 508
59．The Fragile Earth 517
60．The Sounds of Silence 526
61．Memory:Why We Remember…Why We Forget 541
62．Huge Family Takes Hard Times in Stride 554
63．Honesty:Is It Going Out of Style? 563
64．Your Name Is Your Destiny 572
65．The Plug-In Drug 582
Part Two 601
1．Job-Sharing 601
2．Sports and Education 605
3．Is an Atomic Car Possible? 610
4．Insurance 614
5．An Agreement 617
6．Time 621
7．Friendships 625
8．Auction 629
9．Earth Learned Anew 632
10．How to Give a Good Speech 636
11．Surgery 640
12．The Air Hostess 644
13．The Voices of Time 647
14．Clocks Through Time 652
15．Drug Addiction in the United States 656
16．Pottery 661
17．The Stranger 665
18．Bamama Goes to College 669
19．Motorcycling 673
20．An African Student in the United States 677
21．The Ocean 683
22．The Education of Benjamin Franklin 686
23．A Single Culture 692
24．The Planemakers 696
25．Doing Something About City Problems 700
26．Museums in the Modern World 705
27．How Computers Are Changing Our World 710
28．Learning How to Make Rain 715
29．School and Sports in Ancient Greece 721
30．A Medieval Discoverer 726
Bibliography 732