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Articles in April, 1996 issue of Economist (US), The

• Dangerous deriving? (derivative trading's threat to banks)(A Survey of International Banking)
• I dislike what I fancy I feel.(treatment of visual hallucinations)
• Revving up: Latin America's car industry.
• Thinking the unthinkable: the welfare state.(UK welfare reform)
• Asian gourmets and Canada's bears.(stopping illegal imports of bear parts from Canada to Asian countries)(Brief Article)
• No peace yet for Lebanon.
• The West's despair. (beef farmers in the US are struggling as prices for yearlings in 1996 drop to lowest levels since 1978)(Brief Article)
• Joy ride. (automobile industry)(Business This Week)(Brief Article)
• The Heart of India.
• Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974.
• Dropping out: physical chemistry. (studying mixtures that separate)
• Rebel with a cause. (Sofmap founder Kei Suzuki)(Face Value)(Company Profile)
• Burning stakes: beef crisis. (British agricultural secretary Douglas Hogg proposes modest measures to eliminate beef cattle infected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)(Brief Article)
• Softer than Strauss. (Bavarian Christian Social Union leader Edmund Stoiber is considered a possible successor to German chancellor Helmut Kohl)(Brief Article)
• Trouble at mine: Indonesia.(shooting by Army lieutenant near copper and gold mine)(Brief Article)
• Sexual speculations: the electorate. (gender gap in 1996 U.S. politics)
• Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy.
• Silly names!(online services Yahoo!, Wanadoo and Youpi!)(Brief Article)
• Under the gun: Hong Kong film festival.
• Not cricket: European Monetary Union. (membership and nonmembership by European countries)
• Please adjust your set. (Russia's struggling manufacturing industries)
• The Yeltsin surge.(Russia's President Boris Yeltsin gains popularity and closes gap in presidential race)(Brief Article)
• Pressure: Israel.(war with Hezbollah puts pressure on Israeli elections)
• Shockingly abnormal. (allegations of sexual harassment at Mitsubishi's plant in Normal, Illinois)(Brief Article)
• Asia's flagging alliance. (security alliance between the U.S. and Japan)(Editorial)(Cover Story)
• Their men in Havana.(foreign investment in Cuba; Survey - Cuba)
• Shin Kanemaru.(former official of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party)(Obituary)
• Aaargh! Credit-rating agencies.(antitrust and other lawsuits against Moody's Investor Service)(Brief Article)
• Muck and brass: environmental technology.(DynaMotive uses household refuse in coal burner scrubbers)(Brief Article)
• A match made in heaven. (merger between British Telecom and Cable and Wireless will be complicated due to financial rules and government regulations)(Brief Article)
• Now for the long haul: European Union.
• Charity ends at home. (charges of human-rights abuses in Chinese orphanages prompts Chinese authorities to severely limit the activities of a benefit dinner conducted by expatriates in honor of Chinese orphans)(Brief Article)
• Highly effective Indians. (revenues from casinos have helped the Oneida community in Wisconsin)(American Survey)(Brief Article)
• Bahraini fireworks.(demands for democratic rights go unheard)(Editorial)
• Union meeting.(European Union leaders meet to revise the Maastricht Treaty and other European political news)(Brief Article)
• A Fine Balance.
• Extinguishing banking's fires: bad banks are usually the product of bad macroeconomic policy.(A Survey of International Banking)
• Coping with the ups and downs. (preventing a systemic banking crisis)(A Survey of International Banking)
• Swapping parts: Japan's stockmarket.
• Free-mail. (Juno Online offers free electronic mail access in exchange for personal information that is distributed to advertisers)(Brief Article)
• A Gaelic boom: Ireland. (Irish economy booming)
• Left revived: Canada.(New Democratic Party gaining support)
• Diplomats and children: Australia. (Foreign Minister Alexander Downer's views on allegations of pedophilia against Australian diplomats in Asia)(Brief Article)
• No thanks, Nancy. (health-care bill co-sponsored by Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy and Republican Nancy Kassebaum would force health insurers to maintain coverage of those who change or lose jobs)(Brief Article)
• Annulled. (British government blocks mergers of PowerGen and Midlands Electricity and of National Power and Southern Electric; includes additional international merger news)(Business This Week)(Brief Article)
• The Art of Singing.(Review of Books and Multimedia) (Software Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
• U.S.A. 2012: After the Middle-Class Revolution.
• Modern times, old trends. (globalization in the 19th century illuminates current trends)(Finance and Economics)
• Arranged marriage.(Ford Motor Co. to raise stake in Mazda to 33.4%)(Brief Article)
• Monopolies and mergers omission: competition policy. (Britain)
• Burying the general. (French military policy)
• Disagreeing to agree: India.
• A faint message from the founders.(American Survey)
• In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents.(Brief Article)
• A leap forward.(International Monetary Fund's predicts solid growth in industrial countries; other business news)(Brief Article)
• It's only a game. (mating habits of male American side-blotched lizards resemble the children's game of 'stone, scissors, and paper' in regards to their color-coded behavior towards females)(Brief Article)
• The kingdom inside the republic. (new management strategy at Euro Disney)
• In brief. (brief news capsules on happenings in Britain)(Brief Article)
• Courting trouble: Germany.(German Constitutional Court may be too liberal)
• Holiday resort: Tibet.(Tibet is becoming a popular tourist attraction for affluent Chinese)(Asia)(Brief Article)
• The war of the standards: education. (proposed national standards for the teaching of history, English)(Brief Article)
• Driving force.(Raytheon is buying most of Chrysler's defence-related operations, while Yoshifumi Tsuji is retiring as head of Nissan; these and other business news items are discussed)(Business This Week)(Brief Article)
• Oranges and lemons: the limits of farm reform.(Survey - Cuba)
• Beautiful mornings. (a new book tells the life story of two of the greatest librettists in history, Oscar Hammerstein and Alan Jay Lerner)(Brief Article)
• America's foreign fling.(government bonds)(Brief Article)
• Keeping cool in China. (how Fedders, an air conditioning unit company, worked its way into China)(Management Brief)
• Clarke's passion spent. (British chancellor resigns)(Bagehot)(Column)
• The Helmut-and-Jacques show. (Helmut Kohl, Jacques Chirac)
• Cambodia: the real toll. (research conducted by Yale University reveals that genocide conducted by Pol Pot's regime is even more widespread than previously reported)(Brief Article)
• The wages of populism. (Minnesota bill aims to pay worker in subsidized jobs a 'living wage')(American Survey)(Brief Article)
• Learning to cope.(dealing with economic insecurity)(Editorial)(Cover Story)
• A financial horror story. (bank deposit insurance programs offered by governments)(A Survey of International Banking)
• Camus: Une Vie.
• At the court of King Ratan.(Face Value)(Column)
• Retired, hurt?(Michael Heseltine could replace John Major as Prime Minister; Bagehot)(Column)
• Senator for St. James. (Italy elects Tana de Zulueta to its Senate, even though she recently became an Italian citizen)(Brief Article)
• Ice-cold in Egypt. (Israel's fragile relations with Egypt may be threatened due to Israel's attack on southern Lebanon)(Brief Article)
• Gay alert, drop everything: Utah politics.(Salt Lake City high school bans all non-academic clubs just to exclude gay and lesbian group)(Brief Article)
• Italy starts again, again.(1996 elections)(Leaders)(Editorial)
• What the world is reading. (top ten non-fiction bestselling books in the United States, Britain, France and Germany)(Review of Books and Multimedia)(Brief Article)

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