| "Beauty" by Susan Sontag |
| "Defining Success" by Michael Korda |
| "It's Failure, Not Success" by Ellen Goodman |
| "The Workaholic" by Ellen Goodman |
| "What Is Poverty" by Jo Goodwin Parker |
| "Gossip" by Francine Prose |
| "Television Addiction" by Marie Winn |
| "Fun, Oh Boy. Fun. You Could Die from It." by Suzanne Britt Jordan |