UNIT ONE 1
1.What Women Do Better 1
2.Women and Work 6
3.Women:Invisible Cages 19
UNIT TWO 31
4.No Home in Africa 31
5.A Swimming Lesson 37
6.Black Men and Public Space 46
7.Best of British Youth 56
UNIT THREE 56
8.Happiness and Wealth 62
9.Our Way of Life Makes Us Miserable 70
UNIT FOUR 83
10.Television:The Great Time-Eating Machine 83
11.Books,TV,and the Imagination 89
12.What Did Kids Do before Television Was Invented? 100
UNIT FIVE 109
13.The Land of Disney 109
14.The End of an Era 115
15.Time to End False Rumors 122
UNIT SIX 132
16.Monday:Why So Unpopular? 132
17.How It Feels to Be Out of Work 138
18.Workaholics 146
UNIT SEVEN 161
19.Abandoned before Death 161
20.Music Is Good Medicine 166
21.Gene of the Week 174
22.The Future of Football 184
UNIT EIGHT 184
23.Thrill Seekers 189
24.Sport and the American Dream 197
UNIT NINE 206
25.Preserving Our Planet 206
26.Man s Role on Earth 211
27.Will Our World Survive? 219
UNIT TEN 234
28.One World,One Economy? 234
29.Learning to Love the Euro 239
30.The Spirit of Adam Smith 246
UNIT ELEVEN 254
31.The Story of English 254
32.What Makes a Global Language? 262
33.Language on the Skids 271
UNIT TWELVE 280
34.A Warning from Nature? 280
35.It s Official:the Earth Is Getting Hotter 286
36.Spring 293
37.Cities of the Future 303
UNIT THIRTEEN 303
38.A Merging Metropolis 308
39.If London Cleans Its Air and Water,Why Can t Our Large Cities? 317
UNIT FOURTEEN 329
40.A Feast for the Ears 329
41.The Voice of America 338
42. 90s Rock:A Mess,but Not Bad 344
UNIT FIFTEEN 353
43.The Ultimate Fate 353
44.How Planets Are Born? 357
45.What Do We Know about the Universe? 367
UNIT SIXTEEN 381
46.Advice to Youth 381
47.Electronic Tutors 387
48.Cheating on the Campus:Who s Really to Blame? 399
UNIT SEVENTEEN 408
49.Cars:On a Road to Nowhere 408
50.Orwell Got It Wrong 413
51.Digital Delivery 420
52.Nonverbal Communication 429
UNIT EIGHTEEN 429
53.In Other Words 436
54.The Truth about Lying 447
UNIT NINETEEN 457
55.Will Cloning End Human Evolution? 457
56.Man s Brief Reign in the Evolutionary Spotlight 462
57.Aping Language 470
UNIT TWENTY 479
58.Futurist Lessons from Thomas Jefferson 479
59.The Future of Money 484
60.Leadership for the Next Century 492