1．Bold Words for a New Generation 1
2．Youth and Booty 7
3．Never Talk to Strangers—and Watch out for Nice Guys,Too 13
4．The Joy Luck Club 18
5．What Phase Are You in？ 23
6．Buyer Education 28
7．Tigers in the Labs 35
8．Microsoft Climbs down 41
9．Why Is the West Scared？ 47
10．The Struggle to Be an All American Girl 53
11．Why You Watch What You Watch When You Watch 58
12．Don't Be Chicken about Speaking English 64
13．Pronunciation of the Foreign Language 70
14．Eight Ways to Help Your Child Excel 75
15．Advertising Media 82
16．To Win at Marriage,Learn to Lose 88
17．Purse-strings in Power 94
18．Save for Your Old Age 101
19．The Double Blanket 106
20．It's not Meddling 112
21．Be Your Own Weatherman 117
22．Movie 123
23．Friends of the Road 128
24．My Stepfather,My Friend 134
25．A Teenager Talks Back 139
26．Teens and Drugs 145
27．We Are Not a Nation of Tax Cheats 151
28．The Civil War 157
29．What's the Difference between Boys and Girls？ 162
30．Las Vegas 170
31．Ingrid Bergman 176
32．The Pleasures of Eating 182
33．Why Are You Laughing？ 188
34．The Real Information Revolution 194
35．Too Fat：55％in the U.S 200
36．Driving Home the Message 205
37．Recall about Mrs.Thatcher 210
38．Champion of the Chimps 215
39．Black Is Beautiful 222
40．The Quest for a Man-made Human 227
41．The Whale 233
42．Twins,Genes,and Environment 238
43．Sales Promotion 244
44．On Cults 250
45．Can Hackers Be Stopped？ 255
46．Senior-Teener,A New Hybrid？ 264
47．Here Comes Halley's 270
48．Magic 276
49．The Sons of the Sun 282
50．Italian Design：The Refined Elegance of Creative Innovation 289
Vocabulary 295
后记 319