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Unit One The World Is Flat

 1.While I Was Sleeping

 2.The Untouchables

 3.The Right Stuff

Unit Two The Rocking Horse Winner

Unit Three Healt

 1.To Sharpen the Brain, First Hone the Body

 2.Are You Ready for a World without Antibiotics?

 3.Mental Health Needs Seen Growing at Colleges

 Urut Four What to Listen form Music

 1.Preliminaries

 2.How We Listen

 3.From Composer to Interpreter to Listener

Unit Five Psychology

 1.Freud's Theory

 2.Jung's Theory

Unit Six Finance

 1.The IMF and the World Bank: How Do They Differ?

 2.Repent at Leisure

Unit Seven Ethics

 1.How Much Is Enough?

 2.Human Cloning and Human Dignity:An Ethical Inquiry （excerpts）

Unit Eight Fashio

 1.Fashion

 2.T's Fall Reports on Mayhem and Street Fashion

Unit Nine Essays

 1.Work

 2.How Should One Read a Book?

Unit Ten Aesthetics

 1.Aesthetics

 2.The Aesthetic Hypothesis

Key to the Exercises

Appendix Memorable Quotes