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• The man who would be Jack; Face value; Face value: Jeffrey Immelt, GE 's boss-in-waiting.(Business)(General Electric is more country than company, and its boss, Jack Welch, is a legend. So his replacement, Jeffrey Immelt, is, if nothing else, brave)(Brief
• TRADE, EXCHANGE RATES AND BUDGETS.(Financial Indicators - Europe)(Brief Article)
• Mapping biodiversity; How to map biodiversity.(Science and Technology)(Worldmap: a software records the world's biodiversity)(Brief Article)
• The Fox experiment begins; Fox's agenda for Mexico.(The Americas)(Mexico's new president has had five months to think about how he will govern. He has some answers-but there are some questions too)
• Mr Right; Political memories; Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore story.(Books and Arts)(Review)
• Getting wider; North-south divide; The widening north-south gap.(Britain)(Brief Article)
• No big deal; Youth unemployment; Getting the young to work.(Britain)(The government has hit one of its key manifesto targets-to get a quarter of a million young people off benefit and into work. But there is less to this than meets the eye)(Brief Article)
• Correction.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
• Europe's choice.(Leaders)(An enlarged European Union must learn to accommodate different ideas of what "Europe" should be. If that means "two systems", so be it)(Brief Article)
• TRADING PARTNERS.(Emerging-Market Indicators)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Tubular bells; Regulating buskers.(Britain)(Brief Article)
• Set in stone; Removing London's statues.(Books and Arts)(Putting up statues is simple; taking them down is something else. A fresh controversy in London highlights an old dilemma)(Brief Article)
• Friends say stop; Zimbabwe; Mugabe under African fire.(Robert Mugabe)(International)(Brief Article)
• A change in the Landescape; German banks; Germany's state-owned banks.(Finance and Economics)(Under pressure from the European Commission, Germany's public-sector banks are thinking openly about reforming themselves)
• Playing seriously.(Survey)(Technology Quarterly)(Brief Article)
• The minister of arbitrary power; Face value; Face value: Wu Jichuan, China's unnerving telecoms minister.(Wu Jichuan rules China's booming telecoms industry. That gives foreign investors good reason to think twice before piling in)(Business)(Brief Article
• Half-way there.(Survey)(In only 15 years, Portugal has halved the big gap in living standards between itself and the rest of Europe. Finishing the job, says Patrick Lane, could take longer)
  by Lane, Patrick
• OUTPUT, DEMAND AND JOBS.(Economic Indicators)(Brief Article)
• Cleaning up Thailand; Thailand's election scandals.(Asia)(Brief Article)
• Refuse in a storm; European banks' risky US loans.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
• ECONOMY.(Emerging-Market Indicators)(Brief Article)
• Ruth Dyk.(Obituary)(Ruth Belcher Dyk, a pioneer of votes for women, died on November 18th, aged 99)(Brief Article)
• It's Christmas; Public-sector pay; More money for doctors and nurses.(Britain)(Doctors and nurses are likely to get generous pay awards, but even so the NHS will struggle to meet its targets for recruiting more staff)(Brief Article)
• A Soviet song for Putin; A Soviet anthem for modern Russia.(Books and Arts)(Brief Article)
• The big telecoms bust.(Leaders)(Why innovation is so easy to get so wrong)(Brief Article)
• TRADE, EXCHANGE RATES AND BUDGETS.(Financial Indicators)(Brief Article)
• So that's all agreed, then; What Nice achieved.(Special)(The European Union's summit in Nice gave a foretaste of the power struggles to come, as the EU prepares to admit 12 new members)
• Gooseflesh; Laos; Mystery bombings in Laos.(Asia)(economic and political problems haunt Laos, as it celebrates 25 years of communist rule)(Brief Article)
• A suit and case for treatment; Britain's image consultants.(how casual work dressing has affected employees and clothing makers in Britain)(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
• Ireland's risky budget.(Europe)(Brief Article)
• Browser wars, part two; The wars of the browsers.(Business)(Brief Article)
• The other American dream; The jockey who came from nowhere.(Chris Antley)(United States)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• Rolled over; The lottery; Branson loses the lottery.(Britain)(Sir Richard Branson's empire seems set to suffer a double blow)(Brief Article)
• The undetected; Greece; Greece's uncaught terrorists.(Europe)(Brief Article)
• The dollar's looking peaky.(Finance and Economics)(After two years of high-flying defiance, the dollar has started to wobble)
• Investigating Fujimori's regime.(Leaders)(Japan and the United States have a special duty to help)(Alberto Fujimori)(Brief Article)
• Life after Bush; Governing Texas; After Bush in Texas.(United States)(Brief Article)
• Ninety-plus, and still young.(Christmas Specials)(Roland Bird, now 92, joined The Economist as a journalist in 1933. He retired, as finance director, in 1978. We asked him to recall those far-off days, when the paper, though over 90 years old, was a small
  by Bird, Roland
• Today, son*, all this is yours; Youth and government; Today, son*, all this is yours.(Christmas Specials)(Young people are increasingly involved in government, just for being young)
• In praise of disruption.(Survey)(Technology Quarterly)(Technologies such as Bluetooth broadcasting, optical switching, code morphing and proteomics are threatening the old industrial order. Rejoice)(Brief Article)
• America, memory-chip Lazarus; Semiconductors; America's microchip fightback.(Business)(Fortunes are easily reversed in the chip-making business. This article looks at America's fightback in the memory-chip market, another examines China's efforts to becom
• Sources.(Survey)(Brief Article)
• Utterly predictable; Protein folding; Neural networks and protein structure.(Science and Technology)(research progress in protein structure recognition)(Brief Article)
• Cleaning up.(The Americas)(government in Peru, after President Alberto Fujimori)(Brief Article)
• Engastrimythos for dummies; Ventriloquism; A history of ventriloquism.(Brief Article)(Review)
• Battle of the newsagents.(Britain)(Brief Article)
• The tension rises again; Serbia and Kosovo; Could Serbia's Milosevic come back?(Slobodan Milosevic)(Europe)(Brief Article)
• A Jay for today; The Jay Gatsbys of today.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
• Win!*.(Leaders)(It is time for Al Gore to concede, and for George W. Bush to be free to plan his new administration properly)(Brief Article)
• Big business bows to global warming; Energy firms and global warming.(Business)(Brief Article)
• Don't rush for the exits; Economic slowdown; The economy slows down.(Britain)(Brief Article)
• Soul man; Chinese fiction; A Chinese laureate's novel.(Books and Arts)(Gao Xingjian)(Brief Article)
  by Lee)., Gao Xingjian (Translated By Mabel
• Shooting the messenger in Morocco;... but the Moroccan press is curbed.(International)(Brief Article)
• Just say no; Smoking; How California beat smoking.(United States)(anti-smoking ads help reduce lung cancer rate in California)(Brief Article)
• Smells fishy; MONITOR; Recycling dead fish.(Survey)(Technology Quarterly)(Brief Article)
• EM.TV's high-speed crash; EM. TV 's fall from grace.(Business)(Brief Article)
• Save the wail; Whales change their tune.(Science and Technology)(Brief Article)
• Letters; On the euro, CEO s, Britain's National Lottery, Swiss and English, America's election, work.(Letters)
• Signals of peace; Mexico; Fox tries for peace in Chiapas.(Vicente Fox)(The Americas)(Brief Article)
• A Bulgarian way into the EU; The EU 's Bulgarian immigrants.(Europe)(Brief Article)
• Teraflops from cyberspace.(Survey)(Technology Quarterly)(Brief Article)
• In the heart of darkness; Congo's unnoticed war.(Special)(The war in Congo is the world's biggest, affecting at least ten countries and millions of people. Can anything be done?)
• Parlez-vous Anglais? Monoglot ministers.(cabinet ministers lack foreign language skills)(Britain)(Brief Article)
• Personal pages; New writing from the Arab world.(Books and Arts)(Contemporary Arabic novelists are usually badly paid and little read. Yet their work still flourishes)(Brief Article)
• A peace process for Kashmir?(Leaders)(India and Pakistan have both made concessions, but still must make more)(Brief Article)
• Fingering fingerprints; Doubts about fingerprints.(Science and Technology)(Fingerprints, the touchstone of forensic science, have never been subjected to proper scientific scrutiny)(Brief Article)
• Have wife, will travel; Helping expatriates' wives.(Business)(professional services established for wives who are sent abroad)(Brief Article)
• The Taliban dilemma; Afghanistan; More sanctions against the Taliban?(Asia)
• Poached fish; Investment-bank mergers; Investment-bank merger winners.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
• The very long arm of its law; Russia; A Russian arrested in Spain.(Vladimir Gusinsky)(Europe)(Brief Article)
• Image problem; Tourism in South Africa; South Africa's tourism potential.(Business)(Brief Article)
• Go west, young Han; China's Great Leap West.(Asia)(Plans to develop China's western provinces are about more than economics)
• Happy holidays; Children's Hollywood; Hollywood bets on children's movies.(Books and Arts)
• ECONOMY.(Emerging-Market Indicators)(international statistics)(Brief Article)
• LABOUR HOURS.(Emerging-Market Indicators)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Tomorrow's child.(Survey)(In much of the ageing rich world, the young must wait)
• The children of slavery; The insurers and the slaves.(United States)(Brief Article)
• The water of life.(Christmas Specials)(Some things, such as whisky (or whiskey, if you prefer), get better as they get older)(Brief Article)
• Japan's buttoned-up backers; Japan's blue-chip incubator.(Marunouchi business district)(Business)(Brief Article)
• In the club.(Survey)(EU membership has brought increased prosperity-as well as a few problems)(Portugal)

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