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Unit 1 Face the Music
Unit 2 How big a threat?
Unit 3 Out of Life
Unit 4 The Bird Flu: How Much Fear Is Healthy?
Unit 5 Games People Play
Unit 6 Net to Newspapers: Drop Dead
Unit 7 The Real Inflation Threat isn't Energy
Unit 8 The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
Unit 9 A Temporary Truce on Textile
Unit 10 Pumped up and Proud of It
Unit 11 Not Quite Ready to Retire
Unit 12 Sugar and Spice
Unit 13 The Blog in the Corporate Machine
Unit 14 Changing Channels
Unit 15 Who's Your Daddy?
Unit 16 Why Your Boss May Start Sweating The Small Stuff
Unit 17 Strong Lattes, Sour Notes
Unit 18 Between Hype and Hope
Unit 19 The Device that Ate Wverything?
Unit 20 Has the Meltdown Begun?
Unit 21 When Bad Bugs Go Good
Unit 22 We Love Trash
Key to Exercises