Contents 1
Unit 1 English as a Computer Language 1
Unit 2 A Street Education in New Delhi 16
Unit 3 The Sound of Silence 31
Unit 4 Crossing the Line:Steven Spielberg s“List” 45
Reading Test 1 A Doll s House 60
Unit 5 We ll Never Conquer Space 68
Unit 6 Organized Crime 82
Unit 7 Your Child s Brain 95
Unit 8 The Struggle for an Education 113
Reading Test 2 Thomas Jefferson s Perfect Mansion 129
Unit 9 Daylight Saving:More Than a Trick of Time 137
Unit 10 A Right to Die 154
Unit 11 What s Wrong with Our Weather 170
Unit 12 Universality of Science and InternationalCooperation 188
Reading Test 3 The Second Information Revolution 205
Unit 13 Making Both Ends Meet 213
Unit 14 Depression:What You Should Know 227
Unit 15 Abraham Lincoln 243
Unit 16 True Love 261
Reading Test 4 A Theory of the Panic 276
Unit 17 Lightning 283
Unit 18 VW and Fiat:German Flair Versus Italian 297
Reliability 297
Unit 19 How to Grow Old 311
Unit 20 On the Meaning of Work 324
Reading Test 5 Aerogels:Through a Glass Lightly 341
Unit 21 Three Days to See 349
Unit 22 Diogenes and Alexander 365
Reading Test 6 Computer Addicts 381
Keys to the Exercises 394