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Unit I Life Science

　　Text A Human Cloning

　　Text B Are We 10 Years Away from Artificial Life?

　　Unit 2 Biological Engineering

　　Text A How Stem Cells Work?

　　Text B Taking Your Genes in Hand

　　Unit 3 New Energy

　　TextA Ethanol, Schmethanol

　　Text B The Coming Wave

　　Unit 4 Transportation

　　Text A Intelligent Highways

　　Text B Making Waves

　　Unit 5 New Facilities

　　Text A Facial Recognition Systems

　　Text B GPS——the Most Precise Navigation System Ever Invented

　　Unit 6 Telecommunication

　　Text A Video Conferencing Cell Phones

　　Text B You Are Your Cell Phone

　　Unit 7 Space

　　Text A Starship Enterprise: the Next Generation

　　Text B Phoenix to Go Digging on Red Planet

　　Unit 8 Health and Medicine

　　Text A Telemedicine Comes Home

　　Text B Would a "Fat Tax" Save Lives?

　　Unit 9 Internet

　　Text A The Internet Is Sick... But We Can Make It Better

　　Text B Watching While You Surf

　　Unit 10 VR Technology

　　Text A The Military Applications of Virtual Reality

　　Text B Reality, Only Better

　　Unit 11 Robots

　　Text A Rise of the Rat-brained Robots

　　Text B Nothing to Lose But Their Chains

　　Unit 12 Environment

　　Text A Future Crops. the Other Greenhouse Effect

　　Text B The Methane Mystery

　　Unit 13 Animals

　　Text A Jellyfish Invasion

　　Text B Who Belongs in the Zoo?

　　Unit 14 Computer Science

　　Text A Software That Makes Software Better

　　Text B From Blueprint to Database

　　Unit 15 Automobile

　　Text A How Hydrogen-Boosted Gasoline Engine Works?

　　Text B The Car Doctor Is In

　　Glossary

　　Acknowledgements