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Articles in September, 2004 issue of Newsweek International

• Britain's Big Tent; The real 'new Europe' is an arc of countries that share a very English approach to the region.
  by McGuire, Stryker
• Geoffrey Miller; Questions of Intelligence.(Interview)
  by Dehghanpisheh, Babak
• A Warming Current; New leaders improve Singapore-Malaysia relations.
• Kim Puts On a Festival; Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Cannes anymore.
  by Gluckman, Ron
• What You Don't Know About Fat; Fat Cells: The average person has 40 billion of them. They multiply, they're almost impossible to kill and they're sending messages to your body that can ruin your health.(Cover Story)
• The Alaskan Front; Where the battle of greens versus big oil is heating up, once again.(Cover Story)
• Hot Green Gizmos; A range of energy-saving devices for the home.(Cover Story)
  by Edry, Sandy Lawrence; Sparks, John; Underhill, William; Williams, Kathryn
• The Price Is Wrong; Even $50 a barrel can't wean the world from oil. Only government can.(Cover Story)
• Tip Sheet.
• Review: Better Than Sex; The dizzying new 'Woman in White' bears plenty of Lloyd Webber touches. Will it become the next 'Phantom?'.(Theater Review)
• Seeing Red; Spreading democracy is a Bush theme. Back in Russia, guess who's defending democracy? The communists.
  by Brown, Frank; Hirsh, Michael
• An Unlikely Champion; Why the anticorporate advocates of free software have come to embrace one of the industry's biggest players.
  by Ness, John
• Back Slaps and Business; U.S.-style lobbying is catching on in Mexico's Congress.
  by Contreras, Joseph; Cordova, Alan
• Il Cavaliere Goes on Holiday.(Silvio Berlusconi)
• Perils of Good Intentions; Roh's idealism has turned South Korea into a debtor state.
• Seattle Superbus; A northwest oasis is the main testing ground for hybrid mass transit.(Cover Story)
  by Romano, Andrew
• Healthy Homes; New building technologies and innovative add-ons are making nearly-zero-energy houses a real possibility.(Cover Story)
• Tip Sheet.
• Winners and Losers; Climate change is shifting the reproductive and migratory patterns of birds and other animals.
• Bad Time to Be Born; Gloom is driving down birthrates among the Asian tigers.(Cover Story)
• Anwar Ibrahim ready to resume reform agenda.(Interview)
• The Ides of September; French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy heads for an autumn showdown in Paris.
• The High Road; If China steers its auto industry toward hybrids and perhaps hydrogen cars, the world may have no choice but to follow.(Cover Story)
  by Simons, Craig
• Bottomline Decisions; Concerns about reliable supply will always trump the call for cleaner energy.(Cover Story)
• Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
• Korea Marches Out of Sync; The gap between consumption and export growth is at its widest level since the crisis, rendering the economy extremely vulnerable.
• Oil Isn't Going Away; The real threat is the ever-rising challenge of meeting global demand.(Interview)(Cover Story)
• The Too Slow Flow; Why Indonesia could get all its power from volcanoes--but doesn't.(Cover Story)
• Divided We Stand; Germany remains one nation, two peoples.
  by Theil, Stefan
• Periscope.
• Hotel Headaches.(New York hotels)
  by Mohseni, Yasmine
• Theater: A Spoonful of Sugar; Two big-name musicals--and a handful of smaller shows--arrive to nurse the West End back to health.
• Perspectives.(quotations)(Brief Article)
• Drifting to the Right; The BJP's leadership crisis has rejuvenated its radicals.
  by Mazumdar, Sudip; Moreau, Ron
• Birth Dearth; Remember the population bomb? The new threat to the planet is not too many people but too few. How the new demography will shape the coming century.(Cover Story)
• The Military Factor; Indonesia's next president will face tough decisions about new Army reforms.
• Digging Deep; Even remote patches of oil are starting to look more and more attractive.(Cover Story)
  by Piore, Adam
• The Road to Peace; Rebels in the southern Philippines wrestle with the character of their insurgency.
• Fuel's Future; Business sees clean natural gas as the next dominant fossil fuel. But there will be political storms along the way.(Cover Story)
• Co-opting Kabbalah; Israelis prepare for the arrival of the red-string brigade.
• High-Society Girl; Nair's 'Vanity Fair' offers much to savor.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
• The Rich Hit the Road; Wealthy Koreans no longer feel welcome at home.
  by Lee, B. J.
• Out of Options; After the Beslan tragedy, Vladimir Putin discovers the limits of Stalin Lite.
  by Brown, Frank; Kuchment, Anna
• Tip Sheet.(fashion trends, China's panda tourist attractions)
  by Simons, Craig; Williams, Kathryn
• People Power; The hybrid economy is going to need an electrical grid that can accommodate every available power source.(Cover Story)
  by Guterl, Fred; Romano, Andrew
• Mail Call: Making the Top 10.(Letter to the Editor)
• Ahoy! Man the Circuit Breakers!(ocean waves could generate cheaper electricity soon)(Brief Article)
• The Holdouts: Neither Old Nor New; Switzerland and Norway have stubbornly resisted joining the EU, and so far they haven't suffered any great consequences.
  by Underhill, William
• The Shrinking Cities; What Used to be a Regional Problem is Sweeping the World.(Cover Story)
  by Theil, Stefan
• Mary Poppins Does Vegas; When it comes to gambling, Britain wants the big time.
  by Underhill, William
• Mail Call: Tune In and Hook On.(Letter to the Editor)
  by Baker, Sharon; Lichty, Lyle; Oates, Jenn
• Snap Judgement: Books.("We the Media," "Frenchy," "Mill, Alm, Money, Lemon: A Family Conversation")(Book Review)
  by Margolis, Mac; McNicoll, Tracy; Ness, John
• A Hybrid Future; As the age of oil wanes, what will take its place? A little bit of everything.(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
• Novel Land.(Book Reviews)(Birds Without Wings)(Snow)(Book Review)
  by Jones, Malcolm
• Spinach Power.(Brief Article)
• Perspectives.
• Periscope.
• Change of Direction; Opportunities for women filmmakers are all too rare in Hollywood. Luckily, there are other options.
  by Barchfield, Jenny; Pepper, Tara
• Periscope.
  by Adams, William Lee; Carmichael, Mary; Ephron, Dan; Hirsh, Michael; Hosenball, Mark; Isikoff, Michael; Klaidman, Daniel; Kuchment, Anna; McGuire, Stryker; Ozols, Jennifer Barrett; Sennott, Sarah; Sparks, John; Thomas, Devon
• For Love of the Dacia.
  by Postelnicu, Andrei
• Too Close to Call? Maybe.(United States presidential election poll results)(interview with John Zogby president and CEO of Zogby International)(Interview)(Excerpt)
  by Beith, Malcolm
• The Little Weed That Could.(Research on switch grass as an alternative to fossil fuel)(Brief Article)
• A Change Of Address; The outsourcing industry is moving to cheaper locales.
  by Mazumdar, Sudip; Moreau, Ron
• A Flowering Basketcase; From failed state to model reformer in just a few years, can it be Colombia?
  by Beith, Malcolm; Duffy, Mark
• Where the Glass is Full; Beer consumption rises with wealth, but only up to a point, which is why big brewers are running to emerging markets.
  by Kuchment, Anna; Sparks, John; Theil, Stefan; Underhill, William
• Finding the Footlights; With government support, Kenya's arts scene comes to life.
  by Polier, Alexandra
• Subtle Power Struggle; The shadowboxing between Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao is murky, but could have global implications.
• Solar? Eclipsed. Why does wall street continue to look down on renewable energy?(Cover Story)
  by Foroohar, Rana
• Assimilation Is Hard, Too; The next phase in the life of a plucky Iranian heroine.("Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return")(Book Review)
  by Mohseni, Yasmine
• The Gold Rush.(Rimpa exhibition at National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
  by Itoi, Kay
• Australia in the Crosshairs; National security hasn't been a big issue in the Oz campaign. Will that change?
• America Closes Its Doors; Washington says it is fixing the post-9/11 visa mess, yet complaints from businesses and universities mount.
  by Foroohar, Rana
• The Gas Misers; Toyota's new hybrid may just be the biggest thing in cars since the combustion engine.(Cover Story)
• A Mightier Wind; Wind turbines may soon be ready to compete with conventional power.(Cover Story)
  by Stone, Brad
• On The Road.("The Motorcycle Diaries")(Movie Review)
  by Margolis, Mac
• Emerging From Exile.(South African collections returned in Homecoming Exhibition)(Pretoria Art Museum)
  by Rossouw, Henk