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Unit 12 Ambition After-Class Reading PASSAGE I Hacker or Mike?[1] There are two kinds of people in the world: those who play sports and those who excel at sports. The men I know who belong to the former group keep trying to join the latter group. We're unable to relinquish the fond hope that one day our aging limbs will miraculously become well coordinated. Take me, for example. I play basketball
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Unit 12 Ambition In-Class Reading Ambition 1 In college, my friend Beth was very ambitious, not only for herself but for her friends. She was interested in foreign relations, in travel, in going to law school. "I plan to be secretary of state someday," she would say matter-of-factly. One mutual friend was studying literature, planning to go to graduate school; he would be the chairman of the Yale
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Unit 11 Criminal Punishment and Crime Prevention After-Class Reading PASSAGE I The Death Penalty Mayor Edward Koch maintains that the death penalty "affirms life". By failing to execute murderers, he says, we "signal a lowered regard for the value of the victim's life".[1] Koch suggests that people who oppose the death penalty are like Kitty Genovese's neighbors, who heard her cries for help but
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Unit 11 Criminal Punishment and Crime Prevention In-Class Reading Death and Justice Edward I. Koch 1 Last December a man named Robert Lee Willie, who had been convicted of raping and murdering an 18-year-old woman, was executed in the Louisiana state prison. In a statement issued several minutes before his death, Mr. Willie said: "Killing people was wrong... It makes no difference whether it's ci
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Unit 10 Medical Ethics After-Class Reading PASSAGE I Required Course: Bedside Manner 101[1] Connie Cronin is the kind of nurse who loves to work the overnight shift on Christmas Eve to usher in the holiday with her patients. That's why she was so troubled one morning when she realized on her way home from work that she had all but ignored a patient ravaged with infections and confined to isolatio
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Unit 10 Medical Ethics In-Class Reading A License to Kill 1 Advocates of assisted suicide and euthanasia find a role model in Holland, the only country that permits both practices. They say its policy is a "remarkable triumph of common sense". Yet a closer look reveals the truth about the practice of euthanasia in Holland. 2 The Royal Dutch Medical Association officially endorsed euthanasia in 19
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Unit 9 Computer Technology After-Class Reading PASSAGE I Microchips No invention in history has so quickly spread throughout the world or so deeply touched so many parts of human existence as the microchip. Today there are nearly 15 billion microchips of some kind in use. In the face of that fact who can doubt that the microchip is not only changing the products we use, but also the way we live.
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Unit 9 Computer Technology In-Class Reading Hackers, Crackers and Trackers 1 Coursing through arteries, replicating along the way, edging into new sites to wreak havoc, the virus at first seemed like any other virus that eventually would be defeated by the host's defense mechanisms. This, however, was a new, more powerful virus, and it would take advantage of the system's weaknesses, infecting an
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Unit 8 The Media After-Class Reading PASSAGE I What Makes TV Most Entertaining? In America, over 98 percent of all households have a radio, and most automobiles are equipped with one. The average American listens to the radio eighteen hours a week. About 77 percent of the population read newspapers. The average American spends about 3.5 hours a week reading newspapers. Over 98 percent of all hous
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Unit 8 The Media In-Class Reading It's Radio! The medium that can turn anywhere into somewhere 1 The truth is that radio has not been eclipsed by television and cable and the Internet. In fact, radio is as popular as it has ever been. According to the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association, 675 million radio receivers are currently in use in the United States; on average, Americans over t
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Unit 7 Today's Youth After-Class Reading PASSAGE I Me, Stuart, Mum and Dad On Saturday, I introduced my parents to Stuart. After he'd left I went back into the kitchen to ask my parents what they thought of him. Perhaps I'm old fashioned[1], or maybe I'm just looking for criticism, but I always like my parents to meet my boyfriends. I think it's good for both parties. If nothing else, it enables
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Unit 7 Today's Youth In-Class Reading Profiles of Today's Youth: They Couldn't Care Less 1 John Karras, 28 years old, was in a card shop the other day as the radio, which provides the soundtrack for his generation, offered a report on the dead and missing in the floods that had just flashed through southeastern Ohio. 2 The cashier, a man a bit younger than Mr. Karras, looked up at the radio and s
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Unit 6 Advertising Campaigns After-Class Reading PASSAGE I Insights into Advertising Advertising is a universal enterprise. Anyone who watches Chinese TV ads for pills that claim the power to increase a young person's height by several centimeters, make fat men and women thin and attractive, or even increase the length of legs is aware of the insidious nature of advertising.[1] The same types of
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Unit 6 Advertising Campaigns In-Class Reading Advertising Claims 1 Many people are believers in their own immunity to advertising. These naive inhabitants of consumerland believe that advertising is childish, dumb, a bunch of lies, and influences only the masses of the less sophisticated. Their own purchases, they think, are made purely on the basis of value and desire, with advertising playing o
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Unit 5 Appearance After-Class Reading PASSAGE I Dress for Success Since I had very early on discovered that the socioeconomic value of a man's clothing is important in determining his credibility with certain groups, his ability to attract certain kinds of women and his acceptance to the business community, one of the first elements I undertook to research was the socioeconomic level of all items
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Unit 5 Appearance In-Class Reading Physical Attractiveness 1 What do you look for in a potential date? Sincerity? Good looks? Character? Conversational ability? Asked to rank such attributes, most intellectuals put physical attractiveness near the bottom of the list. Of course. Sophisticated, intelligent people are not greatly concerned with such superficial qualities as good looks; they know tha
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Unit 4 Honesty After-Class Reading PASSAGE I How Honest Are We? How honest are Asians today? Do people in the region's smaller communities have more integrity than residents of the mega-cities[1]? What motivates people to do the right thing? Over a four-month period late last year, we tried to find out with a simple test. We visited 14 cities, towns and communities in nine countries. In each, we
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Unit 4 Honesty In-Class Reading Cheating: Alive and Flourishing 1 Trying to get a handle on scholastic cheating is as frustrating as surveying American eating patterns. Everyone says he is watching his weight--yet the streets are full of overweight folk, and the snack-food industry reports record sales. 2 Talk to students, and you get the same kind of contrasts. Most say that, yes, they cheated w
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Unit 3 Attitudes Toward Work After-Class Reading PASSAGE I Work Lovers or Work Addicts? Most workers spend eight or nine hours on the job. They work because it's unavoidable. They need to make enough money for necessities: food, rent, clothing, transportation, tuition, and so on. They spend about one-third of their lives at work, but they hate it. They complain and count the minutes until quittin
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Unit 3 Attitudes Toward Work In-Class Reading Making Work Meaningful: Secrets of the Future-Focused Corporation 1 Today's worker is no longer willing to work in an authoritarian and dehumanizing environment. Workers want meaning in their work and balance in their lives. They want opportunities to contribute and to know how their work is effective. Employees want to work for organizations that res
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Unit 2 Human Behavior After-Class Reading PASSAGE I When to Keep Your Mouth Shut The owner of a New Jersey printing business was delighted when another company wanted to buy one of his used printing machines. After careful calculations, he fixed a price of $2.5 million and formulated his arguments. When he sat down to negotiate, however, an inner voice told him, "Wait." The buyers quickly filled
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Unit 2 Human Behavior In-Class Reading What, Me? Showing Off? 1 We're at the Wilson's annual party, and over at the far end of the living room an intense young woman with blazing eyes and a throbbing voice is criticizing poverty, war, injustice and human suffering. Indeed, she expresses such anguish at the anguish of mankind that attention quickly shifts from the moral issues she is expounding to
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Unit 1 Happiness After-Class Reading PASSAGE I You Can't Buy Happiness Everyone wants to be happy, but exactly what is happiness and how can one obtain it? Philosophers have been arguing about the matter for centuries and have not been able to reach an agreement; yet everyone knows happiness when they experience it or when it is denied to them. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines happines
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Unit 1 Happiness In-Class Reading Finding Happiness 1 Does happiness favor those of a particular age, sex, or income level? Does happiness come with satisfying close relationships? What attitudes, activities, and priorities engender a sense of well-being? 2 Although the scientific pursuit of happiness has recently mushroomed, speculations about happiness are age-old. Ancient philosophers believed
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Unit 12 Public Speaking After-Class Reading PASSAGE I Food for Thought[1] I am very happy to be invited to talk to the International Club this afternoon. This group does so much for our school and community that I couldn't resist accepting your invitation. I'm a firm believer in better international relations. To prove it, I ate pizza with Italian sausage last night, French toast this morning, an
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Unit 12 Public Speaking In-Class Reading Why Study Public Speaking? 1 Today, beyond the relative security of the college or university classroom, nearly 7,000 speakers will <1> stand in front of American audiences and deliver speeches. And during those same twenty-four hours, people will make more than 30 million business presentations. These speakers will express and elaborate their ideas,
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Unit 12 Public Speaking In-Class Reading Why Study Public Speaking? 1 Today, beyond the relative security of the college or university classroom, nearly 7,000 speakers will <1> stand in front of American audiences and deliver speeches. And during those same twenty-four hours, people will make more than 30 million business presentations. These speakers will express and elaborate their ideas,
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Unit 11 Heroes After-Class Reading PASSAGE I Mr Lee's Side of the Street When Hattie Robinson moved from a lonely farm outside Tallahassee to West Perrine, Fla., this suburb of Miami was a friendly neighborhood of small frame houses. Neighbors visited one another in the evenings, and the children played tag in the shadows of the street lights. People went to sleep with their screen doors[1] unlat
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Unit 11 Heroes In-Class Reading Heroes 1 Okay, the following thirty seconds are going to be a test. Don't get nervous. Just tell me what the following three people have in common. Ready? Okay. 2 Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Jr., Clark Gable. They are all men, true; they are all famous. What, besides their fame, do all these people have in common? 3 These men are all the people cited by
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Unit 10 Business Strategies After-Class Reading PASSAGE I National Stereotypes and Business Behavior We are repeatedly warned to beware of generalizations yet, paradoxically, it seems that the human mind cannot resist categorizing people and things. We love to "pigeonhole", to make order out of a universe that frequently seems to us confusing and even chaotic.[1] Nowhere is this tendency more evi
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