Unit 1 The Weight of Paper The arrival of computer everywhere in the workplace would, some technological forecasters predicted, soon make paper a thing of the past. And guess what? Bill Gate's vision of a computer on every desk has been more or less

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Unit 3 My Un-wedding Day The local bishop in the western Canadian city of Nelson, was going to perform the ceremony. July 18, 1987, would be the day, just before my 37th birthday, when I would get married for the first time. Her name was Helen. She w

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Unit 7 The Rules of Game Italians love women. Russians love Vodka. What do Americans love? They love rules. There are thousands of books dedicated to the idea that whatever you are doing, you can learn to do it better. And they all seem to come from

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Unit 4 September 11 and My Turn One of the things I always believed is that no matter how bad something is, you can take something positive out of it. The one time I wasn't sure of that was on September 11. I happened to wake up early that day. I tur

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Unit 93 Metrosexual Man If you haven't heard the term yet, one of the hottest buzzwords in the media today is metrosexual. Arnold Schwarznegger is a metrosexual -- as are Brad Pitt, and soccer superstar David Beckham. And some social observers believ

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Unit 97 Buy Nothing Day The singer Elton John took legal action against his managers, accusing them of not looking after his money properly. During the court case, the lawyers asked for a detailed breakdown of the money he spent over the past year. I

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Unit 16 The Midnight Visitor (II) It's not my balcony, explained James angrily. It belongs to the next apartment. He glanced explanatorily at Fowler. You see, he said, this room used to be part of a large unit, and the next room -- through that door

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Unit 17 Tips on Getting More Efficiency out of Women Employees This is an actual excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Mass Transportation. It was written for male supervisors of women in the work force during WW II. There's no longer any question whet

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Unit 27 Evaluation by Students It used to be that if what students had to say about their professors was unprintable, it remained that way. No longer. Formal evaluations of teachers by students, something that would have been viewed as the height of

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Unit 36 Wedding Ceremony in the West Ceremony of Rings: Traditionally, the passage to the status of husband and wife is marked by the exchange of rings. These rings are a symbol of the unbroken circle of love. Love freely given has no beginning and n

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Unit 45 The Myth of Superwoman For the past generation, our society has tried to sell us the idea of the woman who has it all and does it all. We stand in awe of women who run successful businesses, volunteer for community service, keep beautifully d

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Unit 58 Mnemonics Mnemonics are memory tools for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall. A very simple example is the 30 days hath September rhyme. The basic principle of mnemonics is to use as many of the best functions

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Unit 49 One World, One Economy The trends toward globalization began in earnest in the 1970s when the system of fixed exchange rates, set up after WW II, was disrupted. This meant that the value of currencies would now be determined by the markets in

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Unit 69 Why Character Counts? Some time ago I was asked to consult for a bank that was having a problem with employee morale. I don't know what's wrong, complained their young president. Bright and ambitious, he'd risen through the ranks only to see

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Unit 67 Some Kids Are Orchids Most of us think we know the kind of kid who becomes a killer, and most of the time we are right. Boys commit about 85% of all youth homicides, and in those cases about 90% conform to a pattern in which the line from bad

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Football Hooliganism Football hooliganism is seen by most as disorder involving football fans. Usually this involves criminal activity and in most cases occurs either at or just before or after a football match. Much football-crowd disorder is sponta

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Where Does Bad-breath Odor Come From? We all have offensive breath at one time or another. In most cases, offensive breath originates from bacteria in the mouth, although there are other more surprising causes. Until a few years ago, the most doctors

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Unit 79 Rebel Wild Rose Rose O'Neal Greenhow was born in Montgomery County, Maryland. Rebel Wild Rose, as she was sometimes called, was a distinguished hostess in Washington society, a passionate secessionist, and one of the most renowned spies in th

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Unit 78 The American Civil War The American Civil War, the greatest war in American history as well as the only war fought on American soil by Americans, in which 3 million fought and 600,000 died. It was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1

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Unit 77 A Phenomenal Memory I have a phenomenal memory for faces. There is no doubt about that. The only snag is that I can never remember the names that go with them. Only the other day, I raised my hat to one fellow, quite distinguished-looking he

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