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Unit 13 The Culture Content of Vocabulary One of the earliest word sets that a student will learn is colors. Later on the intermediate student learns that in English yellow signifies cowardice and green signifies inexperience and jealousy. It is impo
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Unit 15 The Midnight Visitor (I) James did not fit the description of any secret agent Fowler had ever read about. Following him down the corridor of the gloomy French hotel where James had a room, Fowler felt disappointed. It was a small room, on th
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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 100 The Wal-Mart You Don't Know Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest retailer. It's world's largest company -- bigger than ExxonMobil, General Motors, and General Electric. The scale is hard to absorb. Wal-Mart sells in three months what num
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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 23 My Greatest Olympic Prize It was the summer of 1936. The Olympic Games were being held in Berlin. Because Hitler insisted childishly that his performers were members of a master race, nationalistic feelings were at all-time high. I had traine
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Unit 22 The Voices of Time Time talks. It speaks more plainly than words. Time communicates in many ways. Consider the different parts of the day, for example. The time of the day when something is done can give a special meaning to the event. Manage
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Unit 24 Is Beauty an Advantage? Is beauty an advantage? Does it make the beautiful individual powerful? Does it result in substantially better pay and opportunities in the workplace? Ten years ago, feminist author Woolf wrote about the beauty myth. W
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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 44 Trees Are Violet In 1874, fifty-five artists held the first independent group show of Impressionist art. Most of them, including Canne, Pissarro, Renoir, Degas, Monet, Manet, and his sister-in-law Berthe Morisot -- a bunch of lunatics and a w
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Unit 60 What Do You Know about Google? Just a few years back, the word Google existed as the name of a cartoon character (Barney Google) and possibly among the random phonemes mumbled by toddlers. Today, one would be hard-pressed to find a person who
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Unit 56 What is Autism? Autism is a lifelong developmental disorder that affects the way a person communicates and relates to other people. The range and intensity of disability varies widely, but all individuals affected by autism have difficulty wi
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Unit 54 Slow Food Movement The International Slow Food Movement was founded in 1986 by leftist journalist Carlo Petrini in a determined effort to wage intellectual war on the homogenization of food around the world. Spurred by the opening of Italy's
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Unit 51 Basics of Horoscope Astrology is the study of how events on Earth are influenced by the Sun, Moon, stars and planets. Technically, horoscope is the term astrologers use for a chart showing the relative positions of stars and planets at a spec
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Unit 71 Escape Valve A man and woman I know moved in together recently. It was, as such occasions are, a moment of sentiment and celebration. It was also a limited engagement. Before moving in, they had already set a fixed date when they would break
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Liposuction's Limits Doctors have long suspected that excess fat around the belly -- as opposed to the thighs or hips -- increases the chances of developing heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. Apparently, belly fat doesn't just lie there
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Unit 82 Euthanasia: For and Against We mustn't delay any longer ... swallowing is difficult ... and breathing, too ... Those muscles are weakening ... These were the words of Dutchman van Wendel asking his doctor to help him die. Affected with a seri
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