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UNIT 1 EDUCATION REPORT 1
Chapter 1 • Another Look at Massive Online Open Courses — 10
Chapter 2 • Need Help with Your Writing? Try This Web Site — 16
Chapter 3 • The Problem with Plagiarism in South Korea — 22

UNIT 2 EDUCATION REPORT 2
Chapter 1 • Choose Your Degree at an American College or University — 30
Chapter 2 • Coming to Terms with Academic Titles at US Colleges — 36
Chapter 3 • Some (Adults) Call for Shorter Summer Break for US Kids — 42

UNIT 3 HEALTH REPORT 1
Chapter 1 • New Malaria Drug Coming to Africa Is Low Cost, Easy to Take — 50
Chapter 2 • Metastasis: How Cancers Can Spread Their Reach — 56
Chapter 3 • Epilepsy: Mysterious and Sometimes Misunderstood — 62

UNIT 4 HEALTH REPORT 2
Chapter 1 • What Is the Relationship Between Age and Happiness? — 70
Chapter 2 • In Rural India, Medical Myths Spread — 76
Chapter 3 • Why Getting Dirty Can Be Healthy for Children — 82

UNIT 5 AGRICULTURE REPORT 1
Chapter 1 • Trying to Understand Food Labels — 90
Chapter 2 • Don’t Know Much about Mulch? — 96
Chapter 3 • The Fight over Farm Subsidies — 102

UNIT 6 AGRICULTURE REPORT 2
Chapter 1 • From Ancient Farmers, Lessons for Today’s Amazon — 110
Chapter 2 • New Findings about Loss of Bees — 116
Chapter 3 • UN Says Food Production Must Rise; How Fertilizer Trees Could Help? — 122

UNIT 7 ECONOMICS REPORT 1
Chapter 1 • Meeting the Demand for Ethanol — 130
Chapter 2 • Economics Not Such a Dismal Science for US High School Students — 136
Chapter 3 • Recalls Add to Pressure on Toy Industry — 142

UNIT 8 ECONOMICS REPORT 2
Chapter 1 • Saving Money for College — 150
Chapter 2 • How Gold Became the Gold Standard for Trade — 156
Chapter 3 • British Bank Pays $340 Million Fine for Iran Dealings — 162

UNIT 9 TECHNOLOGY REPORT
Chapter 1 • India Defends Moves against Social Media — 170
Chapter 2 • Getting News from around the World with Today’s Front Pages — 176
Chapter 3 • Turning Industrial Waste-Heat into Electricity — 182

UNIT 10 DEVELOPMENT REPORT
Chapter 1 • Mobile Phones as a Public Health Tool in Developing Nations — 190
Chapter 2 • ‘Phones for Health’ Campaign Targets AIDS in Africa — 196
Chapter 3 • Judging African Leaders by Good Governance — 202

Unit 11 HISTORY AND CULTURE
Chapter 1 • Learning History at Birmingham’s Civil Rights Institute — 210
Chapter 2 • Telling Stories through Totem Poles — 216
Chapter 3 • A New Education Center at Theater Where Lincoln Was Shot — 222

Unit 12 MUSIC
Chapter 1 • A Youth Orchestra for Chinese-Americans Widens Its Reach — 230
Chapter 2 • Vinyl Records Go for a New Spin — 236
Chapter 3 • Hot Chelle Rae, the Band Named for a Fan Who Wasn’t Real — 244

Unit 13 SPORTS
Chapter 1 • How the Paralympics Were Born — 254
Chapter 2 • For Woman Jockeys, Part of Racing Is Proving‘You’re Just as Good as Any Other’ — 260
Chapter 3 • Jai Alai Fans Are Betting on a Better Future for Their Fast Sport — 268

ASSIGNMENTS — 275