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Articles in February 2007 issue of Newsweek International
- Time to Change Tacks on Iran.(Essay)
by Takeyh, Ray - The Wobble Before the Fall.(petroleum prices)(Brief article)
by Bahari, Maziar; Gunson, Phil; Matthews, Owen - Fashionably Connected; The new Prada Phone isn't the first high-fashion mobile, but it shows how eager manufacturers have become for their next hit.
- China Lets Loose; Foreign money is pouring into China, piling up by the billions. Now Beijing has set out to right the balance by freeing its people to take that money abroad.
by Liu, Melinda - An Even Closer Ally; An odd outburst from Howard highlights the uniquely pro-American mood of Australia.
- Monk Made.(European monasteries)(Brief article)
by Burchell, Kenzie - Mail Call: Royal for France?(Letter to the editor)
by Chellumben, Dan; Hamilton, Karen; Miller, William Joseph; Radtke, Werner; Yoon, Sock-Joong - Perspectives.
- Making the Final Cut; By working with government censors, China's filmmakers are stretching the limits of acceptability.
by Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia - Mail Call: Ankara and the EU.(Letter to the editor)
- 'The Need for Closure'; Our position is very clear. You need inclusion. You cannot just say, 'Hamas doesn't exist.'.(interview with Ahmed Nazif)(Interview)
by Weymouth, Lally - Spear Phishing.(internet fraud)
by Sutherland, Benjamin - Reality Check.(wireless technology )(Brief article)
- Hot Spot: Hotel Lancaster, Paris.(Hotel review)
- Jakarta Drifts; Indonesia's president talks reform but is struggling to make good on his promises.
- Year of The Pig.(Brief article)
by Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia - King of The Fans; Everyone is rooting for Gerard Butler in '300.'.(Berlin Film Festival)
- Perspectives.
- Neuroscience: Risky Business.(research on risk taking behavior)(martian atmosphere)(Brief article)
by Arora, Rupali - Computers: Factory In a Kit.(printer by Cornell University )(Brief article)
- The Good Life.(dutch paintings on exhibition)(plastic bags and its varieties)(new robots)
by Bennett, Jessica; Bintliff, Esther; Burchell, Kenzie; Byrnes, Brian; Chan, Michelle Jana - Europe's Fallen Angels; The EU's newest economies may be headed for trouble.
- Cleaning Up Japan Inc. Three recent scandals show Tokyo's financial reforms are working.
- Good News, Bad News.(Easy-Bake Oven )(Brief article)
by Ordo, Jennifer - Oases in The Sand.
by Falby, Patrick - English Orated Here; To stop the flight of their best and brightest to the Ivy League, top Asian universities are moving to give many, even most, of their courses in English.
by Lee, B.J. - Beijing's New Internationalism; As an increasingly powerful China involves itself with the world, its devotion to absolute sovereignty is starting to evolve.
- Cuisine for Kids.(Rousillon, Villandry, Le Meurice )(Brief article)
by Bintliff, Esther - The Cinderella Plant; Africans used to think jatropha was a worthless bush. Now it may be an important new source of energy.
by Palmer, Karen - The Last Word: George Clooney; The frustrated American.(Interview)
by Brownell, Ginanne - Cell Phones: Pocket Projectors.
by Sutherland, Benjamin - Periscope.(Bangladesh and its elections)(survey on employee replacement)(changing trends in television)(Survey)
by Bahari, Maziar; Beith, Malcolm; Brownell, Ginanne; Chen, Joanna; Emerson, Tony; Hosenball, Mark; Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia; Nadeau, Barbie; Yabroff, Jennie - These Scions Are Pros; South Korea wrestles with a tough question: if the son has the chops, is it bad for him to take over as CEO?(chief executive officer)
by B. J. Lee - Time To Bust Up The Club; An obscure deal to sell off Berlin's Landesbank could herald revolutionary changes for German banking.
by Theil, Stefan - Watch Very Carefully.(Harry Potter movies )(Brief article)
by Smith, Sean - Global Investor: Blue Chips Are a Bargain.
by Biggs, Barton - A Strike Too Many; Hyundai, South Korea's largest automaker, set out to copy nimble Japanese rivals. It's ended up looking more like the laggards in Detroit.
- The Solution.(celebrating the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birthday)(Brief article)
- 4 Hours In Singapore.(Brief article)
by Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia - Tokyo Makes Waves; Japan's new national art center is slick, stunning and ecologically sound. And it doesn't even own a single painting.
by Kashiwagi, Akiko - Remembering Kapuscinski; The Polish writer who explored distant lands always found just the right images, just the right observations to entrance readers everywhere.
- Wait Till the NEXT One! Sure, Bill Gates is excited about Vista, but he's also already thrilled about future versions of Windows.(Interview)
by Levy, Steven - Perspectives.(Quotation)
- Want to See a Movie? Just Look Up.(shot movies)(Brief article)
by Yabrof, Jennie - Kyoto Can Be Made to Work; 'Leapfrog' economies can bypass traditional industrialization. India, for example, leads the developing world in low-carbon wind power.
- The Mini Fingers.(scientists dveloped a robotic hand one millimeter across)(Brief article)
by Arora, Rupali - With This Ringtone ...(modern courtship)(Brief article)
by Bennett, Jessica - The Last Word: Henry Paulson; 'He Wanted Bold Ideas'.(Interview)
by Paulson, Henry - The Dawn of the Next Cold War.(Essay)
by Bremmer, Ian - Time on The Mind.(Brief article)
by Adler, Jerry - Hot Spot: Seven-One-Seven Hotel Amsterdam.(Brief article)
by Brownell, Ginanne - Periscope.(international news)
by Glain, Stephen; Hosenball, Mark; Matthews, Owen; Mummolo, Jonathan - Interview: The People's Laptop; MIT's Nicholas Negroponte wants kids all over the world to use his computer to jump-start learning.(MIT Media Lab)(Interview)
- An Intelligent Test? China's new antisatellite program makes sense--at least from Beijing's perspective. But it could turn out to be a dangerous mistake.
by O'Hanlon, Michael - How to Sell the Joke; Two photography shows make the humor pop.
by Yabroff, Jennie - The Davos Disconnect; For a great number of major industrial nations the share of economic rewards going to labor stands at a historic low. This is not sustainable.
- The Third Man; Once again, Le Pen is poised to play the spoiler in France's elections.
- Reality Check.(binge eating)(Brief article)
- Private Boom.(private-equity )(Brief article)
by Vencat, Emily Flynn - Commentary: Left, Right or Center? Tony Blair leaves a double-edged legacy. The new 'politics of pragmatism' is all about delivering--wherein lies the catch.(Cover story)(Biography)
by King, Anthony - Now Comes the Hard Part.(Six Party Talks)
by Green, Michael J. - The Games Gap.(Brief article)
by Summers, Nick - Glittering Glamour.(Brief article)
by Parker, Leela - The Good Life.(Velentine's Day offers at hotels and resorts)(Hiro's Yakko San Miami restaurant)(Cologne Carnival)
by Bintliff, Esther; Hilary, Jeanne; Jaffe, Bruce; Mack, Lauren; Patrician, David; Stern, Linda - Raul Looks to the East; Fidel is still around, and officially in charge. But his brother Raul may be about to ditch Cuba's Soviet economics in favor of Beijing's free-market model.(Fidel Castro, Raul Castro)
by Contreras, Joseph - The First Lady Steps Out; Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asecret weapon: his wife. But is Japan really ready for her?(Akie Abe)(Cover story)
by Caryl, Christian; Kashiwagi, Akiko - Redeemed By a Little Black Book; A Dutch filmmaker returns from self-exile.(Paul Verhoeven)
by Bintliff, Esther - Remodeling the Churches; As European worship steadily declines, many grand old buildings have fallen into disuse. What should become of them?(Cover story)
- ChAvez Lives Castro's Dream.
- Questions About the Quds.(Brief article)
by Hirsh, Michael - In the End, It's About Family; Feuding Palestinian clans could torpedo a ceasefire.
by Peraino, Kevin - America's Unsinkable Fleet; Why the U.S. military is pouring forces into a remote West Pacific island.
by Caryl, Christian - The Debunker.(Google Earth)(Brief article)
by Overdorf, Jason - Global Investor: Too Wealthy For Worries; Unless the lessons of history are irrelevant, it's a fantasy to think that markets can police themselves.
by Garten, Jeffrey E. - Global Investor: Why Worry, Wall Street?
by Garten, Jeffrey E. - Laughing All the Way; An incisively irreverent history of the modern world.
by Wasserstrom, Jeffrey - No Power to the People; Europe's leaders aim to revive the constitution, but this time without the potential embarrassment of another messy vote.
by Moravcsik, Andrew - Interview: It's a Source of Stress; Akie Abe talks about the stir over her style, her youth, her willingness to hold hands in public.(Interview)(Cover story)
- Race to the Moon.(Cover story)
- I Did It My Way; He was among the most brilliant politicians in Britain's post-World War era. With his career now ending amid controversy, dogged by myths about Iraq, Tony Blair opened his doors to NEWSWEEK.(Cover story)