1 The Main Idea 7
2 Inference 8
3 Making Generalization 10
4 One-World Culture 12
5 My Journey Beneath the Earth 14
6 The Next Giant Leap for Mankind 16
7 Fishes 19
8 Reducing Fat in Foods 21
9 Mosquito,Raven and Scorpion 23
10 Land Valuation 26
11 On Antenna 28
12 Concurrent Engineering 31
13 Tomorrow s Telephones 34
14 Pocket Phones 36
15 Communications 38
16 Supertelevision 41
17 Water or Water Transport 43
18 What Makes the Weather So Hard to Forecast 45
19 Nuclear Power Plots a Comeback 47
20 Solar Energy 50
21 Deadly Danger in a Spray Can 52
22 Kids Who Can t Say No ! 55
23 Fusion and Fission 57
24 How to Go Back in Time 59
25 The Development of the Public Railways 60
26 The 21st Century Vehicles 63
27 Battle of the Music Giants 65
28 Cyberpunks and the Constitution 67
29 Smart Cards 69
30 Who Invented Microprocessors? 71
31 Fifth-Generation Computers 73
32 Some Practical Uses of Computers 75
33 Surgical Instruments 77
34 Fiber Optics Light Lines to the World 79
35 Looking for Lumps 82
36 Cells That Carry Messengers of Health 84
37 Robots 86
38 New Scientific Breakthroughs 88
39 Satellites—High-flying Birds of High Tech 90
40 Venus s Youth and Beauty 93
41 The Age of Superstuff 94
42 Advanced Materials 96
43 Superconductor Search:A Race and an Obsession 98
44 The Dangers in Dinnerware 101
45 Long-playing Record(LP) 103
46 AIDS in the Age of Reason 105
47 Alcohol s Youngest Victims 108
48 Scientific Technobabble 110
49 How the Planet Works 112
50 The World s First Spherical Screen Stereoscopic Film 114
51 American s Life in the Scientific Age 117
52 Mystery—and Maybe Danger—in the Air 119