CONTENTSLesson OneLife Skills 1
Lesson TwoWanted:Shift Managers 12
Lesson ThreeWhat Is Folk Art? 22
Lesson FourSwimming Pool Physics 32
Lesson FiveChance or Probability 42
Lesson SixOrdeal in a Frozen Wilderness 53
Lesson SevenEndangered Species:Birds 66
Lesson EightFour Minutes That Get You Hired 76
Lesson NineAll Creatures That on Earth Do Dwell 89
Lesson TenHelp Your Man Lose Weight 100
Lesson ElevenMallaise:How to Know If You Have It 112
Lesson TwelveOn Reading 124
Lesson ThirteenWhy You Wear What You Wear 135
Lesson FourteenThe Final Thrust 146
Lesson FifteenB？d the Chunnel 158
Lesson SixteenRelearning the Lessons of Grammar 169
Lesson SeventeenDeforestation 180
Lesson EighteenThe Urge to Conform 192
Lesson NineteenThe Acid Rain Problem 205
Lesson TwentyOPEC and a New Oil Order 219
Lesson Twenty-OneThe Poisoned Amazon 232
Lesson Twenty-TwoChallenges for Global Agricultural Research 244
Lesson Twenty-ThreeDan Quayle Was Right 257
Lesson Twenty-FourMiniature Adults 268
Lesson Twenty-FiveA Cure 281
Lesson Twenty-SixThe Long Watch 295
Lesson Twenty-SevenThe Open Barn Door 307
Lesson Twenty-EightSorting Out the Men of Letters 319
Lesson Twenty-NineThe Next Wasteland 332
Lesson ThirtyFirst Nation in Cyberspace 346
Lesson Thirty-OneThe Garbage Industry 358
Lesson Thirty-TwoGreen Taxes 371
Lesson Thirty-ThreePoisoned by a Hail of Lead 383
Lesson Thirty-FourRural Rush 394
Lesson Thirty-FiveThe Attraction of a Magnetic Beach 406
Lesson Thirty-SixThe Complexity Problem 416
Lesson Thirty-SevenReinventing the Robot 428
Lesson Thirty-EightDance of the Electronic Bee 438
Lesson Thirty-NineLiving in the Greenhouse 450
Lesson FortySpawning Jazz,Blues and Poverty 462
Glossary 475
Answer Key 564