Unit One

Text A How I Got Smart

Text B Coming of Age

Text C Romance and Reality

Unit Two

Text A The Titanic Puzzle Should a good feminist accept priority seating on a lifeboat?

Text B Unjust Desserts

Text C Will You Go Out with Me?

Unit Three

Text A The Sense of Wonder

Text B The Innocent Eye

Text C If I Were 21

Unit Four

Text A College Pressures

Text B College Lectures:Is Anybody Listening?

Text C What Is College for?

Unit Five

Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A.:America Seen with European Eyes

Text B American Values and Assumptions

Text C A Foreign Anthropologist s Observation of Americans

Unit Six

Text A Every 23Minutes

Text B Needed:A License to Drink

Text C My Daughter Smokes

Unit Seven

Text A So What s So Bad About Being So-So?

Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness

Text C Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job

Unit Eight

Text A The Highs of Low Technology

Text B Why I m Not Going to Buy a Computer

Text C Obsolete Technology

Unit Nine

Text A Space Politics

Text B Message to the Unknown

Text C Your Future in Space

Unit Ten

Text A Plain Talk About Handling Stress

Text B Energy Walks

Text C Five Methods I Have Used to Banish Worry

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