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Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen
Growing Up Overnight 12
Geeks 23
Lost in a Vitamin Maze? 35
Two Yahoos 47
Why What Things Used to Be Ain't What They Used to Be 62
Making the Rest the Best 73
Senior Netizens 86
The New Map of the Brain 97
Merry Christmas, My Friend 109
Finances Go Paperless 122
Working Morns: Don't Feel So Guilty 134
Learning How to Use Your Time 146
Fighting Crime One Computer at a Time 160
The Story of an Hour 174

READING 1 Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen
READING 2 Growing Up Overnight12
READING 3 Geeks
READING 4 Lost in a Vitamin Maze???
READING 5 Two Yahoos
READING 6 Why What Things Used to Be Ain't What They Used to
Be
READING 7 Making the Rest the Best
READING 8 Senior Netizens
READING 9 The New Map of the Brain
READING 10 Merry Christmas, My Friend
READING 11 Finances Go Paperless??
READING 12 Working Moms: Don't Feel So Guilty??
READING 13 Learning How to Use Your Time
READING 14 Fighting Crime One Computer at a Time
READING 15 The Story of an Hour