UNTI IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION
Text A A Year Without "Made in China"
Text B Stay Globally Competitive: Be Like Google
Text C A Race We Can All Win
UNIT TWO CONTROVERSIES IN 21ST-CENTURY AMERICA
Text A Why Not Teach Altematives to Evolution?
Text B Don't Believe the Hype. We're Still No.1.
Text C Supreme Court Rejects School Racial Diversity Plans !
UNIT THREE COLLEGE AND RESPONSIBILITY
Text A What Exactly Does GW's President Do? !
Text B Campuses Slow to Deal with Growth in Gambling !
Text C Gates Urges Graduates to Tackle Global Inequity
UNIT FOUR "NEW" GENERATIONS
Text A What Gen Y Really Wants
Text B What Will You Call Me When I'm 64?
Text C Why We Must Listen to Our Angry Teenagers
UNIT FIVE PARADOXES IN REALITY
Text A The Cleanest Place on Earth--and the Dirtiest
Text B Somewhere Deep Down, We Still Care. Don't We?
Text C Could Friendships Be Ruining Your Life?
UNIT SIX PEOPLE'S PLACE IN SOCIETY
Text A Setting Happiness as a National Goal 71
Text B When Armed Citizens Patrol the Streets 75
Text C Designing Cities for People, Rather than Cars...
UNIT SEVEN HUMAN IMPACT ON NATURE
Text A After We Are Gone
Text B A New Step Toward Synthetic Life
Text C Can We Save the World by 2015?
UNIT EIGHT CHINA'S "GROWING PAINS"
Text A China Food Scare: A Dash of Racism
Text B A Taste of Racism in the Chinese Food Scare
Text C Tired of Laughter, Beijing Gets Rid of Bad Translations
GLOSSARY