Unit 1 Society
Text A It's All Innocent Gossip, Until You're Guilty Of Insider Trading
Text B Ten Mistakes Job-Seekers Make
Text C One Small Step Back to Where We Started
Unit 2 Economy
Text A The People's Banker
Text B The People's Banker
Text C The End of the Euro
Unit 3 Science and Technology
Text A Are Cell Phones and Wi-Fi Hazardous to Your Health?
Text B The Groupon Clipper
Text C Can the Chevy Volt Recharge General Motors?
Unit 4 Culture and Entertainment
Text A Pathology as Entertainment
Text B Why C.S. Lewis Wrote His Science Fiction Trilogy
Text C Re-writing History, Hollywood-style
Unit 5 Environment
Text A UK Environment Healthy? Beware the Government Spin
Text B Transform Our Countryside and Put Forests in People's Hands
Text C Stop Blaming the Poor: It's the Wally Yachters Who Are Burning the Planet
Unit 6 Health
Text A Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong
Text B Have a Food allergy? It's Time to Recheck
Text C Our Broken Mental-Health System
Unit 7 Sports
Text A How 'Carbohydrate Rinsing' Can Boost Sports Performance
Text B Cycling Training: How to Use GPS to Improve Performance
Text C Positive Health Implications of Being Both Fat and Fit!
Unit 8 Energy and Transportation
Text A Not on My Beach, Please
Text B Power to the People
Text C Station Design: Waiting for the Train
Unit 9 Accidents and Disasters
Text A Bombing Rock Moscow Subway
Text B Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in
Text C Why Haiti Keeps Getting Hammered by Disasters
Unit 10 Education
Text A The Rise of the Entrepreneurial University
Text B Waiting for 'Superman': Education Reform Isn't Easy
Text C For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web
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