Newsweek Reading Assignments for ESL 160 - Spring 2006


issue datearticles assigneddue date  issue datearticles assigneddue date
1)   handout:
"Rich in Things, Poor in Time"
Jan 23   2) Jan 23 "I Want Constantine's Murderer to Die" p.24
"Iran's Rogue Rage" p.26-31
"Our History by the Numbers" p.33
Jan 30
3) Jan 30 "Predator and Prey" p.24-27
"The Other Big Brother" p.32-34
"The Trouble with Boys" p. 44-52
"Mommy, I Know You" p.53
Feb. 6   4) Feb 6 "In Our Blood" p.46-55 Feb. 13
Vocabulary List #1
5) Feb 13 "Google and China" p.14
"Still Haunted" p.17
Letters to the Editor p. 18-22
"Islam and Power" p.35-37
Feb. 22   6) Feb 20 Letters (DNA) p.22
"Bush's Bad Connection" p.31-33
"Anxiety Amid Prosperity" p.37
Mar. 1
Vocabulary List #2
7) Mar 6 "India Rising" p.34-42
"My Two Lives" p.43
handouts: Pew Survey Results
"Just Not Welcome"
Mar. 8   8) Mar. 13 p. 6 "Civil Liberties Board"
p. 36 "New Rules for Nukes"
p. 37 "Nigeria Could Feed Africa"
p. 43 "New Math for College Costs"
p. 44-55 "Food News Blues"
Mar. 15



Mar.20
Vocabulary List #3
9) Mar 20 "Abortion Anxiety" p. 26-29
"On Call in Hell" p. 34-43
Mar. 27   10) Mar. 27 "Freud in Our Midst" p. 43-49
"Therapist as Scientist" p. 50-51
Apr. 5
Vocabulary List #4
11) Apr 3 "Border War" p.22-25
"Healing Powers" p. 30-39
"China's Panda Politics" p. 40-41
"New Hot Zones" p.42-43
"New Wisdom of the Web" p.47-58
Apr. 17   12) Apr 10 "America's Divide" p. 30-38
"To Become an American" p. 39
"God and the Founders" p. 52-55
"My Mother the Narc" p. 56
Apr. 24
Vocabulary List #5
13) Apr 17 NO ASSIGNMENT     14) Apr 24 "Sidewalks" p. 21
"No Child Left Behind" p. 32-3
"Adrift in a Turbulent World" p. 41
"Price of Our Addiction" p. 45
"A Question of When" p. 46-7
"Dawn of a New Movement" p. 49
May 1


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