Unit 1 Society Text A It's All Innocent Gossip, Until You're Guilty Of Insider Trading / 1 Text B Ten Mistakes Job-Seekers Make / 11 Text C One Small Step Back to Where We Started /20 Unit 2 Economy Text A The People's Banker /28 Text B The People's Banker /38 Text C The End of the Euro /45 Unit 3 Science and Technology Text A Are Cell Phones and Wi-Fi Hazardous to Your Health? / 55 Text B The Groupon Clipper / 65 Text C Can the Chevy Volt Recharge General Motors? / 75 Unit 4 Culture and Entertainment Text A Pathology as Entertainment / 85 Text B Why C.S. Lewis Wrote His Science Fiction Trilogy / 97 Text C Re-writing History, Hollywood-style / 105 Unit 5 Environment Text A UK Environment Healthy? Beware the Government Spin / 114 Text B Transform Our Countryside and Put Forests in People's Hands / 124 Text C Stop Blaming the Poor: It's the Wally Yachters Who Are Burning the Planet / 133 Unit 6 Health Text A Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong / 140 Text B Have a Food allergy? It's Time to Recheck /151 Text C Our Broken Mental-Health System / 160 Unit 7 Sports Text A How 'Carbohydrate Rinsing' Can Boost Sports Performance / 169 Text B Cycling Training: How to Use GPS to Improve Performance / 179 Text C Positive Health Implications of Being Both Fat and Fit/ / 189 Unit 8 Energy and Transportation Text A Not on My Beach, Please / 198 Text B Power to the People /206 Text C Station Design: Waiting for the Train /215 Unit 9 Accidents and Disasters Text A Bombing Rock Moscow Subway /225 Text B Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in 2012 /233 Text C Why Haiti Keeps Getting Hammered by Disasters / 240 Unit 10 Education Text A The Rise of the Entrepreneurial University /249 Text B Waiting for 'Superman': Education Reform Isn't Easy /259 Text C For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web /268 Key to Exercises