Lesson One Exploding Tourism Eroding China's Riches 1
Lesson Two Beijing Dreams of 2008 5
Lesson Three HOME AT LAST 8
Lesson Four Best Graduate Schools 11
Lesson Five Is Harvard Worth It? 16
Lesson Six The New Whiz Kids 25
Lesson Seven The New Whiz Kids(Continued) 29
Lesson Eight Judge Sees Politics in Los Alamos Case 35
Lesson Nine Fires in the Night 40
Lesson Ten Big Crimes,Small Cities 45
Lesson Eleven Hollywood demons 54
Lesson Twelve West Point Makes a Comeback 60
Lesson Thirteen Lobbyists Out Of Shadows Into The Spotlight 68
Lesson Fourteen The Rich Get Richer and Elected 75
Lesson Fifteen DECISION:IT'S BUSH 79
Lesson Sixteen Richard Nixon's Tough Assessment 84
Lesson Seventeen The Great Superpower Spy War KGB vs.CIA 90
Lesson Eighteen The Great Superpower Spy War KGB vs.CIA(Continued) 93
Lesson Nineteen Free-talking and fast results 97
Lesson Twenty Why the Monarchy Must Stay 104
Lesson Twenty-one Anything But Beef 109
Lesson Twenty-two Free Scotland and Wales! 113
Lesson Twenty-three VICTIMS OF HISTORY 116
Lesson Twenty-four GIANT ON THE MOVE 120
Lesson Twenty-five From Anarchy To Islamic Rule In Afghanistan 128
Lesson Twenty-six A Witness From Australia's'Stolen Generation' 133
Lesson Twenty-seven Are they a nation? 138
Lesson Twenty-eight Killing in the name of God 142
Lesson Twenty-nine Testimony to S.African Catharsis 146
Lesson Thirty Brazil Is Stepping to Center Stage in Latin America 150
APPENDIXES 159
Ⅰ．美国和英国重要报刊 159
Ⅱ．美国和英国通讯社 161
Ⅲ．美国政府 161
Ⅳ．英国政府 168
Ⅴ．重要国际组织名称缩写 172
Ⅵ．报刊标题常用词汇表 174
Ⅶ．十四个主词 179
Ⅷ．词缀 180