Unit 1 1
Text How to Measure What You Learned in College 2
Supplementary Reading 12
Passage 1 Six Ways to Be Happy with Your College Choice 12
Passage 2 Funding in American Higher Education 16
Unit 2 22
Text A Worldwide Gender Gap 22
Supplementary Reading 30
Passage 1 Women's Position in the 17th Century 30
Passage 2 Gaining Ground on the Wage Front 33
Unit 3 41
Text What Animals Really Think:Food,Warmth,Sleep?Their Thoughts May Be Much Deeper Than That 42
Supplementary Reading 51
Passage 1 How Did Dogs Become Adept at Playing to Humans? 51
Passage 2 Death of a Tiger 54
Unit 4 60
Text Tide of Grief 61
Supplementary Reading 71
Passage 1 Tide of Grief(continued) 71
Passage 2 In the Wake of the Tsunami 73
Unit 5 82
Text Fighting"Big Fat" 83
Supplementary Reading 93
Passage 1 It's Not the Carbs,Stupid 93
Passage 2 A Gene That Says,"No More" 97
Unit 6 102
Text Artful Aging 103
Supplementary Reading 114
Passage 1 Four Rules for Living a Long Healthy Life 114
Passage 2 The Power of Positive Thinking 118
Unit 7 123
Text Merchants of Death 123
Supplementary Reading 134
Passage 1 Humans Were Born to Run,Fossil Study Suggests 134
Passage 2 A Job or a Cigarette? 139
Unit 8 146
Text Testing the Science of Intelligence 147
Supplementary Reading 157
Passage 1 In Defiance of Darwin 157
Passage 2 Color-Coordinated"Truths" 161
Unit 9 167
Text Scientists Try to Find out What's So Funny about Humor 168
Supplementary Reading 175
Passage 1 Searching for the Divine 175
Passage 2 Spiders Watch Their Diets Too,Study Says 181
Unit 10 187
Text What's in a Name? 187
Supplementary Reading 197
Passage 1 Developing a Company Image and Brand 197
Passage 2 Brand Management:Define Your Identity,Then Stick to It 199
Unit 11 206
Text Is a Large Asteroid Headed for Impact with the Earth in 2880? 207
Supplementary Reading 215
Passage 1 Prehistoric Asteroid"Killed Everything" 215
Passage 2 "Dinosaur-Killer"Asteroid Crater Imaged for First Time 218
Unit 12 224
Text Green Burials:Thinking Outside the Box 225
Supplementary Reading 234
Passage 1 Home Funerals:An Old Tradition Returns 234
Passage 2 Waste Leads to Worry in Indonesia 239
Unit 13 248
Text When Does Autism Start? 248
Supplementary Reading 258
Passage 1 When Does Autism Start?(continued) 258
passage 2 Lost and Found:One Woman's Remarkable Transformation 262
Unit 14 268
Text Border Net Has Become a Noose 269
Supplementary Reading 278
Passage 1 Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming 278
Passage 2 Turning a Corner 284
Unit 15 291
Text Is It Apocalypse Now? 291
Supplementary Reading 302
Passage 1 Is It Apocalypse Now?(continued) 302
Passage 2 The End Is Not at Hand 307