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Monday, October 02, 2006

Economist - 23 September 2006

Leaders
  • Financial markets - The dark side of debt
  • Soldiers in power - Thailand's dangerous coup
  • Russian energy - Yukos revisited?
  • US economy - Helping America's workers
  • Sweden's election - Voters of the centre-right, unite
  • Technology leapfrogs - Behind the bleeding edge

Letters

  • On Sweden, the London Stock exchange, Donald Rumsfeld, airline safety, Japanese comics

Special report

  • Thailand's military coup - Old soldiers, old habits

Europe

  • The pope and Islam - When the heavens open
  • Sweden's election - Reinfeldt explained
  • Berlin - Poor but sexy
  • Britain, Spain and Gibraltar - Between a rock and a hard place
  • Cyrillic - Letter writing
  • People-trafficking in Odessa - Sea of tears
  • Transdniestria and smuggling - Easy money
  • Charlemagne - Hungarian dances

Britain

  • The armed forces - No more missions, please
  • Court martial - Branded
  • The wages of football - All bunged up
  • Christianity - A new Jerusalem
  • Bagehot - The Lib Dems, still in the game

Middle East and Africa

  • Darfur - Will they be rescued?
  • Yemen - Leave your guns at home, and vote
  • Iraq - Slaughter in Baghdad
  • Zimbabwe - No democracy, no bread and butter
  • South Africa - The comeback kid

United States

  • National security - The uses of scare-talk
  • Charitable giving - The Clinton Foundation
  • Muslims in Minnesota - Finding a voice
  • Urban renewal - Up in arms about the Yards
  • Food safety - Sickening spinach
  • Unions and politics - The limits of solidarity
  • Lexington - Hypocritical universities

The Americas

  • Mexico's presidential election - The left cannot hold
  • Bolivia - Land battles
  • Alberta's schools - Clever red-necks
  • Canada - Red coats with red faces

Asia

  • China's unions - Little solidarity
  • Japan - Abe steps up
  • Taiwan - An internal afairs
  • Kyrgzstan - A dope dupe
  • South-East Asia's refugees - A burden but also a boon

Business

  • European telecoms - Swamp things
  • DaimlerChrysler - Goodbye, Dr Z
  • European trucks - Roadblocks
  • Semiconductors - Freescale gets engaged
  • Austin's tech cluster - Blame it on the typewriter
  • Recruitment - Booming in China
  • Fast food in America - Sizzling
  • Face value - Jack Ma, China's dotcom pied piper

Special report

  • The credit markets - In the shadows of debt

Finance and economics

  • Hedge funds - Flare-up
  • Chinese brokerages - Hitting a wall
  • Initial public offerings - Selling the family China
  • Buttonwood - Technical failure
  • New mortgages - Collateral thinking
  • Economics focus - Dolling up the dole

Science and technology

  • Epigenetics - Learning without learning
  • Evolution and diet - Bitter consequences
  • Palaeometeorology - Running rings round storms
  • Palaeoanthropology - Lucy's daughter

Books and arts

  • Religion - Misbegotten sons
  • Conservation and feminism - African greenheart
  • Kosovo - TIme for a reckoning
  • The second world war - Moscow mourning
  • New fiction - The latest le Carre
  • London theatre - Chin up, Kevin

Obituary

  • Oriana Fallaci - Journalist and fighter

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