Part One Society &Politics
LESSON 1
Reading A Taking on Big Tech
Reading B The Next American Century
Reading C A Clean Shave--But Not a Free One
LESSON 2
Reading A It's Lonely This Christmas in the White-Collar Gig
Economy
Reading B Brexit Explodes the Ambiguity That Has Underpinned
Stability in Northern Ireland
Reading C The Twilight of the Elites: Why We Have Entered the
Post-Trust Era
LESSON 3
Reading A How the Media Smears Black Victims
Reading B How Organised Is Organised Cybercrime?
Reading C The Immigrant's Fate Is Everyone's
LESSON 4
Reading A Britain's Treaty with Europe Is Dead. Time to Strike a
New One
Reading B Beauty Versus Bogeyman Is No Kind of Contest
Reading C Homeopathy Politics
LESSON 5
Reading A Social Security: Is There Really a Crisis?
Reading B Popularity: It's a Life and Death Contest
Reading C Politicians in Congress Should Serve You, Not Rich
Contributors
Part Two Science &Technology
LESSON 6
Reading A Rise of the Machines (I)
Reading B Rise of the Machines (11)
LESSON 7
Reading A Blingtronics
Reading B Earth-Size Planets Among Final Tally of NASA's Kepler
Telescope
LESSON 8
Reading A Decisions Handed down by Data
Reading B Believing Is Seeing
LESSON 9
Reading A Craig Venter: The Maverick God of Small Things
Reading B Buzz off, Harry Potter--Britain Needs Reinventing
Reading C Please, Stephen Hawking, Find Us a Planet Like
"Westeros" or "Talos IV"
LESSON 10
Reading A Biomimicry Turns Nature into a Factory
Reading B Quantum Money: Note Perfect
Part Three Adolescence &Education
LESSON 11
Reading A To Get Good Teachers and Doctors, Measure Them
Better
Reading B The Pre-K Boom in D.C.: Can It Help End School
