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Articles in August, 1995 issue of Economist (US), The

• Negative vibes: photography. (new easy-to-use camera under development)(Science and Technology)
• Hooking the punters. (how a desire for knowledge about pharmaceutical drugs by patients is obtained in Europe despite advertising restrictions)(Brief Article)
• Party people: young voters.(British Youth Council to emulate US 'Rock The Vote' success in 1992)(Brief Article)
• A western welcome for Asia.(Asian population grows in Vancouver, British Columbia)(Brief Article)
• Peace on the border: India and China. (the two countries signed an agreement in Aug 1995, establishing borders in the Sumdurong Cho region)(Brief Article)
• Prosperity, not politics: for the sake of the American economy, Bill Clinton should make up his mind about Alan Greenspan.(Editorial)
• China and Wu.(Chinese sentence US human rights activist Harry Wu to 15 years in prison; includes other world news)(Brief Article)
• Urbane: neapolitan culture. (Naples, Italy, is undergoing a cultural and artistic revival)(Brief Article)
• Deceptive speed. (Bureau of Economic Analysis will change its method of measuring US gross domestic product to account for changes in price weights)(Brief Article)
• The uncommon good.(business ethics)
• Motherhood, apple pie and AIDS.(four AIDS patients/prisoners leave Italian jails under a 1992 humanitarian law and go on a bank-robbery spree)(Brief Article)
• Different roads to development: why it's better to be poor in some countries than in others.(1995 United Nations Development Program report)
• A small town in Kansas.(Elk Falls, Kansas)(American Survey)
• Degrees of poverty.(public services in underdeveloped countries)(Editorial)
• Something new. (poll shows a majority of U.S. voters back a third party; includes brief notes on other August 1995 U.S. news)(Brief Article)
• After the Wall: Germany, the Germans, and the Burdens of History.(Brief Article)
• Reassessment with extreme prejudice. (Office of Technical Assessment likely to lose funding)(Science and Technology)
• Europop raves on.(continental European musicians gaining bigger share of record sales)(Brief Article)
• Howard Koch.(motion picture screenwriter)(Obituary)
• Sinister evolution: population genetics.(Science and Technology: Population Genetics)
• Speaking, spitting and suing. (political events in Trinidad's legislature after Speaker Occah Seapaul refused to resign her position)(Brief Article)
• Malthus goes east. (analysis of China's future grain needs and production based on its future population)(Brief Article)
• A country, not a war. (U.S.-Vietnam relations)(American Survey)
• Super soarairway. (British Airways report record pre-tax profits for quarter ending Jun 1995, includes other business news)(Brief Article)
• Godtfred Christiansen. (toy designer)(Obituary)
• Slap it on heads: baldness. (scientific research on cures for baldness)
• A new electronic Messiah.(Marc Andreessen)
• Fair play for bingo. (Great Britain's new national lottery has taken business away from bingo parlors, which now want fewer restrictions to regain audience)(Brief Article)
• The new trade in humans.(smuggling of illegal immigrants)
• More like us: Japan.(Japan's economy and politics)
• On the Dole, worth a Gramm. (Republican Congressmen Bob Dole and Phil Gramm argue with one another about welfare reform)(American Survey)
• Split level.(business briefs on MCI Communications, IBM, Microsoft, Digital Equipment, Enron and BT Australia)(Brief Article)
• Buy hard: with a vengeance. (predicting dollar's future)(Finance and Economics: Economic Focus)(Column)
• A heady start. (success of Redhook Ale's initial public offering and management)(Brief Article)
• Switch off: party political broadcasts.(U.K. may abolish party commercials TV policy for US-style advertising)(Brief Article)
• Monkey tricks.(failure of Banco Economico becomes national political crisis in Brazil)(Brief Article) (Brief Article)
• Military blend.(program to integrate the armed forces in South Africa)
• The ripples from Ruby Ridge. (FBI's siege against an alleged white supremacist in Ruby Ridge, Idaho)(Column)
• Women in China.(Hillary Clinton's attendance at the United Nations women's conference in Beijing)(Editorial)
• Zaire expels.(repatriation of refugees from Rwanda and Burundi in Zaire; includes other world news)(Brief Article)
• Financial indicators. (international figures for stocks, money supply, interest rates, exchange rates, trade and other economic indicators)(Brief Article)
• Burying the facts: nuclear testing. (environmental aspects of French nuclear testing)
• Asia's currency headache.(pressure to allow currencies to appreciate)
• Jobs blow.(unemployment rises in UK for first time in two years)(Brief Article)
• Crossed lines and crucifixes.(Bavaria, Germany - court removes crosses and crucifixes from public schools)
• The untouchables. (Ferdinand Marcos's son Ferdinand 'Bong-Bong' Marcos convicted of tax evasion)(Brief Article)
• Murky waters: offshore oil. (California's Congressional Republicans join Democrats in opposing bill to lift ban on offshore oil drilling on California's coast)(American Survey)(Brief Article)
• Enter Saddam look-alikes.(Saddam Hussein and future government of Iraq)(Editorial)
• Beastly: political satire. (50th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell's 'Animal Farm')(Arts, Books and Sport)(Brief Article)
• Is Monte Carlo bust? (new faster technique discovered for valuing derivatives)(Brief Article)
• Losing a beer belly.(brewer Whitbread PLC buys fitness-club chain David Lloyd Leisure)(Brief Article)
• The Brazilians.(Brief Article)
• Man killer: suicide.(rising among boys and young men)(Brief Article)
• Scent of victory: Mexico. (National Action Party wins governor's election in Baja California, and could become a credible opposition party to the Party of Institutional Revolution)(Brief Article)
• India's economic nationalists.
• Green patches in a barren land. (economic conditions in Africa)
• Looking ahead. (IBM and Toshiba to build new computer chip plant in Virginia, includes other business news)(Brief Article)
• Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the Eighteen Nineties.
• From here to EMU.('convergence criteria' for transition to European Monetary Union)(Column)
• London calling: mobile telephones.(digital cellular services fail to take over market from analog in UK)
• No-shock horror: the royal family. (public interest in the royal family decreases as the national lottery becomes a popular topic)(Brief Article)
• After the homecoming: Mozambique.(refugee repatriation)
• Guns and votes: Kashmir.(agitators hope violence in the Kashmir province of India will cancel elections)(Brief Article)
• Ken versus Eddie.(Eddie George and Kenneth Clarke disagree on interest rates for the UK)(Editorial)
• Top of the bill.(Walt Disney Co. buys Capital Cities ABC; Rupert Murdoch to keep Fox TV; Hanson makes offer for Eastern Group)(Brief Article)
• Dam good business this, chaps. (financing infrastructure in developing countries)
• The mighty pen.(declining quality of UK political commentary)(Bagehot)(Column)
• France's underserving poor.(France approaches homeless problem by banning begging)(Brief Article)
• Enter Mr Lee: China and Taiwan. (negotiations led by Singapore leader Lee Kuan Yew)
• Arkansas's unfavourite son. (mixed feelings of Arkansas residents towards Pres Clinton)
• Low key.(Bundesbank lowers interest rates; both France and Japan receive criticism from the International Monetary Fund for bank industry handling; Mexico will provide debt relief for small debtors)(Business and Finance)(Brief Article)
• Gustav Mahler. Vienna: The Years of Challenge 1897-1904.
• More problems: Japanese pensions. (longevity of Japanese people and a faulty financial system account for annual pension deficit of over 10 trillion yen)(Brief Article)
• Taking the Michael.(Michael Ovitz named president of Walt Disney Co.)(Brief Article)
• Will he, won't he? (Boris Yeltsin run for reelection)
• Stop, go: aid for Kenya.
• Japan's many memories of war.(Asia)
• Nasty medicine for British medics.(new UK policy on medical malpractice)(Editorial)
• Hanging on. (Jewish settlers in Israeli occupied territories kill Palestinian, engage in civil disobedience; includes other Middle East and Sao Tome and Principe news)(Brief Article)
• Erinnerungen.(Brief Article)

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