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• Bridging Europe's skills gap; Europe's immigrant workers.(Business)(European companies have begun using imaginative strategies to attract skilled workers. But restrictions on immigration mean that finding new employees is a big challenge)
• TRADE, EXCHANGE RATES AND BUDGETS.(Financial Indicators)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• OUTPUT, DEMAND AND JOBS.(Economic Indicators)(Brief Article)
• Deadly arson in a Kenyan school; Tragic arson in a Kenyan school.(International)(Brief Article)
• On hold; European interest rates; The ECB and interest rates.(Finance and Economics)(European Central Bank)(Brief Article)
• More of the same; Russia; Russia's Chechen war drags on.(Europe)(Vladimir Putin has replaced his defence minister with a civilian-a good move, in principle, but it will not make the war in Chechnya easier to win)(Brief Article)
• Cutting edge; Making steel; Boeing goes to Sheffield.(Britain)(Boeing leaves Seattle and moves to Sheffield-well, sort of)(Brief Article)
• East End ark; Modern art in Britain; 100 years of the Whitechapel Gallery.(Books and Arts)(various artists, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England)(Brief Article)
• Leaving home; South Korea; South Korea's rising emigration.(Asia)(Brief Article)
• The fuel cell's bumpy ride.(Survey)(Motor manufacturers are betting heavily on fuel cells as the engines for tomorrow's cleaner cars. But how to make and store the hydrogen fuel?)
• My friend Keith; Misusing the bureaucrats.(endorsements of politicians by civil servants)(Britain)(Brief Article)
• Our man in the middle; Historical biography; Sir William Hamilton.(Books and Arts)(Brief Article)(Review)
  by Constantine, David
• Marching out, and in again? Congo and Rwanda; Rwanda pulls back in Congo.(International)(Brief Article)
• Like Uncle Sam; Eastern European securities; Shareholder rights in Eastern Europe.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
• A third voice; Poland; New hope for Poland's right.(Europe)(Brief Article)
• Budget in brief.(Britain)(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
• Screen stories; Media wars; CNN: the unauthorised story.(Books and Arts)(Review)
  by Schonfeld, Reese
• Hitting the Tigers in their pockets; Money and the Sri Lankan Tigers.(Tamil Tigers may not be allowed to collect money in Britain for its activities)(Asia)(Brief Article)
• Dark matter; Tahar Ben Jelloun's new novel.(Books and Arts)(Review)
  by Jelloun, Tahar Ben
• Lean and clean; Japanese semiconductors; Making chips in Japan.(Business)
• STOCKMARKETS.(Financial Indicators)(Brief Article)
• MONEY AND INTEREST RATES.(Japan)(Financial Indicators)(Brief Article)
• The law and the uprising; Israel; Israel, the law and the intifada.(International)(What explains Israel's public apathy, and judicial inaction, over its army's "excessive" use of force?)(Brief Article)
• Clearer; The London Stock Exchange; New clearing in London.(central counterparty sought for Europe)(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
• No hero he; France; France's cautious prime minister.(Lionel Jospin)(Europe)(Brief Article)
• See you in court; Bagehot; Bagehot: Ken Livingstone, fat cat.(Britain)(Brief Article)
• Left and right; American lives; Henry Villard, an American titan.(Books and Arts)(Review)
• The boom is an echo; Ottawa; Booming but vulnerable Ottawa.(The Americas)(Brief Article)
• ECONOMY.(Emerging-Market Indicators)(Brief Article)
• Meles and the plotters; Ethiopia; A bid to overthrow Ethiopia's leader.(Meles Zenawi)(International)(Brief Article)
• Dancing in step; Economics focus; Economics focus: New technology and correlated markets.(Finance and Economics)(Individual stockmarkets are increasingly being driven by global rather than local factors)(Brief Article)(Column)
• New Europe, new America.(Leaders)(Pulling together, or pulling apart?)(Brief Article)
• Designer enzymes.(Survey)(A powerful new technique will let drug firms bypass evolution and design enzymes on a computer)(Brief Article)
• Scenes from a marriage; A Franco-German divorce?(Special)(For 50 years, France and Germany have been jointly driving Europe. But is this partnership heading for divorce?)
• Smart tyres.(Survey)(The new drive-by-wire components are making cars much safer, but putting heavy demands on their electrics)(Brief Article)
• Politics amid the palms; The mayor's race in Los Angeles.(United States)(The fragmented and depressing mayor's race in Los Angeles offers few solutions to the city's problems)
• Lights, camera, whoops... Hollywood; Will Hollywood go on strike?(Business)(Brief Article)
• In shreds; Asia Pulp & Paper; Asia's cowed paper tiger.(Business)(Brief Article)
• TRADE, EXCHANGE RATES AND BUDGETS.(Financial Indicators)(international statistics)(Brief Article)
• Letters; On displaced persons, China's lobbyists, "Eurocrats", America's taxes, energy, European agriculture, Michelin, Falun Gong, censorship, SAT tests, Iraq and sanctions, Bagehot's maths.(Letters)
• Waking up to life under Sharon; The Palestinians; Palestinian life under Sharon.(International)(A dire scene in the West Bank and Gaza from which only Hamas can gain)(Brief Article)
• The challenge from up north; The trouble with South-East Asia.(Finance and Economics)(The tiger cubs of South-East Asia fear China's growing economic power. They should make the best of their neighbour's rise)
• It's those Brits again; Ireland; Ireland v foot-and-mouth.(Europe)(Ireland tries to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease from Britain)(Brief Article)
• The carcasses pile up; Agriculture; More foot-and-mouth.(Britain)(The government is widening the cull of animals in an attempt to contain the foot-and-mouth outbreak)(Brief Article)
• Playing with politics; Artswatch: New York political theatre.(Books and Arts)(women playwrights, and social issues)(Brief Article)
• Guyana's closely observed election; A difficult election in Guyana.(The Americas)(Why should a small country draw so many invigilators?)(Brief Article)
• Poor planning; Czech industry; A bad plan for Czech industry.(Business)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Maybe this time; Wind power; Is wind power the answer?(United States)(Brief Article)
• Huddling together.(Survey)(The loneliness of the long-distance carriers)(Industry Overview)
• OUTPUT, DEMAND AND JOBS.(Economic Indicators)(Brief Article)
• The world this week.(News Summaries)(Brief Article)
• How not to cut taxes; Virginia's budget mess.(United States)(Brief Article)
• Seven-year twitch; Bird divorce.(Science and Technology)(research on Kentish plover mating behavior)(Brief Article)
• Letters; On Britain as a foreign land, Berkshire Hathaway, school vouchers, dotcom economics, Harold Stassen, nuclear power, oil subsidies, women in Nepal, power lines and cancer, wind power, Palm's strategy, the Cuban missile crisis, Peter Mandelson.(Let
• Drugs and decay; Iran; Iran's losing fight against drugs.(International)(Brief Article)
• Wrong or strong? Japan's economy; Japan's shrinking current account.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
• Doubts on both sides of the Atlantic; Edginess between the EU and America.(Europe)(Europe is worried about George Bush's America-and vice versa)
• Big in Albania; British culture abroad.(Britain)(concern about the view other countries have of the United Kingdom)(Brief Article)
• The problems of Chairman Morse; Self-inflicted puzzles; Chess problems.(Books and Arts)(Brief Article)
  by Morse, Jeremy
• The salaryman's song; Cheeriness in Japan.(Asia)(Brief Article)
• The cutting edge of virtual reality; REPORT: MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; Cutting edge of virtual reality.(Survey)(Forget blood and guts, tomorrow's medicine is all about robotics, augmented vision and creating VR images of the body)
• What the world is reading; Israeli and American bestsellers.(Books and Arts)(Brief Article)
• Business pains in Vietnam; Business in Vietnam.(Asia)(Brief Article)
• Mugabe's courtesy visit to Europe; Mugabe visits Europe.(International)(Brief Article)
• Throwing the book at them; Institutional investors in Britain; British fund managers shaken up.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Jaime Mayor Oreja, Spain's tough Basque.(Europe)
• Mystery man; Milosevic of Serbia; Identifying Slobodan Milosevic.(Books and Arts)(Review)
  by Cohen, Lenard J.
• China's confident bow; China's increase in defence spending.(With big new spending increases, especially for defence, and stern warnings about Taiwan, China is looking bolder)(Asia)(Brief Article)
• Another kind of net work; Mobile phones in India; India's rural mobile phones.(Business)(Brief Article)
• Whoduzzit? Trade policy; Trade policy in confusion.(uncertainty as to who will emerge as person who influences trade policy)(United States)(Brief Article)
• The cost of fur; Fur coats and animal welfare.(Science and Technology)(Brief Article)
• Global capital rules, okay?(Leaders)(It is time to modernise the regulation of cross-border finance)(Brief Article)
• FOREIGN AID.(United Nations foreign aid targets)(Financial Indicators)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Zero-sum? European trade; Lower EU barriers for poor countries.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
• ECONOMY.(South Korea, Russia, Singapore, South Africa)(Emerging-Market Indicators)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Gordon's cash stash; The budget; The big budget surplus.(Britain)(The chancellor of the exchequer says that his pre-election budget will not be irresponsible. That still leaves him able to give billions away)(Brief Article)
• The same to you, too; China; China's tit-for-tat on human rights.(Asia)(Brief Article)
• Business this week.(News Summaries)(Brief Article)
• Slim green beans in the supermarket; Marketing Africa's green beans.(International)(Brief Article)
• Beautifying branches; Retail banking; Beautifying bank branches.(Finance and Economics)(Instead of axing their branches, banks are inventing new ways to make money out of them)(Brief Article)

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