UNIt1

1.The Open Window

2.The Winged Magician: The First Aerial Flight in Australia

3.Polities:Never Satisfactory, Always Necessary

UNIT2

4.Drowning

5.Less Time for House Chores

6.Mark Twain s Speechmaking Strategy

UNIT3

7.My Way to Success

8.Why Smart People Fail

9.I Never Had It Made

UNIT4

10.The City

11.My Cousin, the Gambler

12.Waiting-Room

UNIT5

13.The Kindness of Strangers

14.Assembling Computers Means That Happiness Doesn t Come Till 4:30

15.The Pace of Life

16.The Importance of Being Interested

UNIT6

17.Why Graduates Won t Wear Science

18.Sold on the Super Mall

UNIT7

19.Mr.Know-All

20.They Created the Jet Age

21.The Hungry World

UNIT8

22.Carnegie, an American Industrialist

23. No Horse, No,Wife, No Mustache

24.Adolf Hitler s Mein Kampf

UNIT9

25.Family Ties

26.Improving the Quality of Life

27.The Nobel Prizes

UNIT10

28.University Days

29.Space-30 Years into the Future

30. A Troublesome Boy

Glossary

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