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Articles in February, 1997 issue of Economist (US), The

• Men from the ministry: the government is still trying to do far too much.(India Survey)
  by Crook, Clive
• More flexible shortlists, please: reforming the Oscars.(Academy Award nominations)
• The taxman goes to war: Russian taxes.
• Please hold. (lower long-distance phone rates will increase the use of foreign workers and customer service outsourcing)(Brief Article)
• Towns of trouble: Bosnia. (ethnic strife in Brcko, Mostar)(Brief Article)
• Lost in the Golan Heights.(Israel-Syria negotiations)
• Holding together, better than most: family life. (the American family)(American Survey)
• Copper on trial.(business news items include copper trader Yasuo Hamanaka entering a guilty plea in Japan on a $2.6 billion forgery and fraud charge)(Business Week)(Brief Article)
• The Case for Mars.
• Henrik Ibsen.
• Financial indicators.(statistics on the stock market, money, interest rates, trade, exchange rates, reserves, and price and earnings ratios)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
• Sayonara? Japanese banks. (bank failures)
• Rumbling down the runway: German airlines.(Industry Overview)
• New thinking over Gibraltar?(sovereignty for Gibraltar may be the logical end to the dispute over fight between UK and Spain over possession)(Brief Article)
• The heartland's German model: job training. (German companies in Wisconsin introduce apprenticeship program)(American Survey)(Brief Article)
• Oyayubi P No Shugyo, 2 vols.
• Zaire still mired. (includes news of rebellion in Eastern Zaire, the release of Palestinian women prisoners by Israel, increases in Ethiopia's food surplus, and the raising of the bounty on Salman Rushdie to $2.5 mil)(Brief Article)
• Not so cool: testes and sperm.(theory expounded by researcher, Michael Chance, that mammals that lead more active lives, like men, have external testes and mammals with less activity have internal testes)(Brief Article)
• Thank Prozac and the dollar. (France is optimistic about its economic recovery thanks to a rising US dollar, though its effects would likely just be temporary)(Brief Article)
• Chocks away: an acrimonious dispute between American and Japan over international airlines looks set to get worse.
• NATO's Russian salad: take your pick. (Russian officials such as Boris Yeltsin and Viktor Chernomyrdin have taken conflicting stands on NATO expansion)(Brief Article)
• Rule by law: Singapore. (lawsuits filed by politicians over Jan 2, 1997, election results)(Brief Article)
• If at first you don't succeed....: the Simpson verdict. (civil lawsuit against O.J. Simpson)
• Getting fit. (Lufthansa places passenger services into one profit center; includes additional airline business news)(Business This Week)(Brief Article)
• Economic indicators.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
• Testing testing. (more efficient clinical trials)
• Fads on wheels: Japanese cars.(recreational vehicles)
• All depends. (a UK report called 'Social Trends' says the ratio of pensioners to workers will actually fall from 1994 to 2021; fears about ever-increasing dependency are unfounded)(Brief Article)
• Chechnya cannot ignore Russia yet. (Aslan Maskhadov wins the Chechnya presidential election and will pursue independence from Russia)
• The almost masters of Afghanistan. (Taliban take more land, offer ceasefire in exchange for acceptance of Taliban rule throughout Afghanistan)(Asia)(Brief Article)
• Rescuing the tunnel rats: the Mexican border. (Mi Nueva Casa, a safehouse in Nogales, Mexico, for child vagrants who live in underground storm drains)(Brief Article)
• All change in the Balkans? Unfortunately, demonstrations do not necessarily mean democracy.(Editorial)
• The coming order: Zaire.(guerrilla war widens)
• Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn.
• Work in progress.(India Survey)
  by Crook, Clive
• Charlie Parker: His Life and Music.
• Taking a baht: Thailand. (the country's economic performance has not lived up to previous expectations; the baht may be devalued)(Brief Article)
• Midfield maestro. (Donald Dewar, British Labor Party's chief whip in the House of Commons)(Bagehot)(Column)
• Basque bind: Spain. (anti-terrorism measures alienate Basque moderates)(Brief Article)
• India's growing pains.(population)(Brief Article)
• The last emperor. (Deng Xiaoping)(Deng's China)(Cover Story)
• America merges. (US acquisitions and mergers)(Brief Article)
• The Reichmanns.
• Betrayal of Science and Reason.(Brief Article)
• Noel Keane.(Obituary)
• Place your bets: Taiwanese stocks.(risky over-the-counter stocks rose 136% in 1996)
• A charter to cheat. (French court rules that a bribe is not a misuse of corportate funds)(Brief Article)
• All the news that fits: Russia's media.(resignation of Eduard Sagalaev, head of public television in Russia)
• Pointing the finger of blame: Megan's Law. (law requires neighbors to be notified if sex offender moves into their community)(American Survey)(Brief Article)
• Re-starting arms control.(Editorial)
• Emerging-market indicators. (economic and financial market data as of early February 1997)(Brief Article)
• Postel disputes: the Internet.(suggest by Jon Postel to change Internet domain names creates controversy)
• The last campaign of a chaebol warrior. (industrialist Kim Woo Choong)(Face Value)
• Integrated but unequal.(UK has less social segregation but more discrimination in employment than US)
• The wind in the Balkans. (politics in Bulgaria and Serbia)
• China on the move. (transportation methods used by migrant workers in China)(Brief Article)
• Crusader with a paper sword. (Pres Clinton's state of the union address)
• Unravelled. (Cable & Wireless withdrawals from joint venture with Veba and RWE; includes additional business news)(Business This Week)(Brief Article)
• The wrong court: a tomb opened.(scientific analysis of 10th century skeletons in France)(Brief Article)
• Draw the blinds: Thai banking. (bleak financial outlook)
• Aerial combat: Brazilian pay-television.(Sky Latin America and DirecTV, two pay-television industries in Brazil)(Brief Article)
• Steady as she sinks. (the UK Conservative Party)
• Avoiding the Algerian precedent: Morocco. (Islamic violence)
• This man Tung: Hong Kong. (shadow legislature appoints Tung Chee-hwa as chief executive)(Asia)(Brief Article)
• Will Medicare sink the budget?
• Cash cars.(automobile industry news)(Brief Article)
• Towards reform: United Nations.
• The Best American Sports Writing 1996.
• Back to budgets. (India's public finances)(India Survey)
• Full-time pastime: letter from the Rockies.(life of a ski bum at Snowbird ski resort near Taos, New Mexico)(Brief Article)
• Who's producing now? (analysis of productivity in different countries)(Brief Article)
• Taking flight: America's airlines.
• The next identity crisis: Belgium.
• Caught red-faced.(Mexican anti-drug csar Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo arrested on corruption charges)(Brief Article)
• The garden's fruit: prison life. (prisoner rehabilitation project)(American Survey)(Brief Article)
• Everybody out.(business news items include the resignation of Robert Massey, president and CEO of CompusServe and the resignation of Marco Landi at Apple Computer)(Business Week)(Brief Article)
• Your very own web-radio.(radio broadcasting on the World Wide Web)(Industry Overview)
• The Coming of the White Minority: California's Eruptions and the Nation's Future.
• Everything for Sale.(The Economist Review)
  by Handy, Charles
• Slave to the rhythm: Living organisms could not function without clocks inside them. But those clocks are not always comfortable with the strains of modern life.

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