CONTENTS 1
Lesson 1 SOS 1
Lesson 2 The Greenhouse Effect 6
Lesson 3 Atomic Cars 11
Lesson 4 “Ever Tried Talking to a Computer?” 15
Lesson 5 Underdevolopment and the Sciences 20
Lesson 6 Advertising in the U．S． 26
Lesson 7 Not Real，But Who Cares? 32
Lesson 8 Kicking the Kickbacks 39
Lesson 9 Need Surgery?Bring Vodka and a Bribe 45
Lesson 10 Too Stuffed to Jump 52
Lesson 11 The Painful Business of Losing Weight 59
Lesson 12 Foreign Language Study in America 67
Lesson 13 The Struggle to Create Creativity 73
Lesson 14 The New Corporate Culture 80
Lesson 15 Brazil's Landmark Intellectual Property Law 88
Lesson 16 Polite，Yes；But Not Soft 95
Lesson 17 China's Early Relations with the West 100
Lesson 18 Vital Intangibles 110
Lesson 19 Brushing Up 120
Lesson 20 American Innovators 127
Lesson 21 The Japanese Challenge 133
Lesson 22 Averting Brain Drain 142
Lesson 23 The Pre-designed Body 148
Lesson 24 Globalism's Human Face 160
Lesson 25 Why the Pace Has to Pick Up 166
Lesson 26 AIDS in Kenya 176
Lesson 27 Sneaker Gulag：Are Asian Workers Really Exploited? 184
Lesson 28 Slaves of New York 191
Kev to Exercises 198