Lesson One 1
Eating Disorders 1
Lesson Two 9
New Scientific Breakthroughs 9
Lesson Three 17
The Popular Science 17
Lesson Four 28
Improving Gene Transfer in Livestock 28
Lesson Five 36
Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the Future 36
Lesson Six 44
Fuel for thought 44
Deep Chill Triggers Record Ozone Hole 53
Lesson Seven 53
Lesson Eight 60
Sea Otter Declines Blamed on Hungry Killers 60
Lesson Nine 71
The Science that Imitates Nature s Mechanisms 71
Lesson Ten 82
Information Handling Systems 82
Lesson Eleven 89
Medical Waste 89
Lesson Twelve 96
Miniaturization of Equipment 96
Lesson Thirteen 103
Computers in Education 103
Lesson Fourteen 114
DNA Suggests Cultural Traits Affect Whale s Evolution 114
Robot 124
Lesson Fifteen 124
Lesson Sixteen 134
A High-Tech Dragnet 134
Lesson Seventeen 141
Fingerprint System Extends Arm of the Law 141
Lesson Eighteen 150
Technical Innovations in Pipeline Coatings and Their Impact on the Environment 150
Lesson Nineteen 158
Machine Components 158
Lesson Twenty 165
The Bermuda Triangle:A Mystery of the Air and Sea 165
Lesson Twenty-One 174
Lost and Found in Orbit 174
Lesson Twenty-Two 181
Cardiac Contagion 181
Digital Divide 191
Lesson Twenty-Three 191
Lesson Twenty-Four 201
An Attack on Aging 201
Lesson Twenty-Five 208
Save the Swordfish 208
Lesson Twenty-Six 214
Manual:Milling Machine 214
Lesson Twenty-Seven 220
Transistor 220
Lesson Twenty-Eight 230
Once more with Feeling 230
Lesson Twenty-Nine 241
The Bits and Bytes of Voice 241
Lesson Thirty 251
Tangled in the Net 251