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Articles in October, 2001 issue of Economist (US), The

• Turning off the tap; Subsidies for European airlines.(Europe's airlines and subsidies)(Brief Article)
• All we are saying... The peace movement.(The peace movement in Berkeley)(weak, but persistent, anti-war movement in the San Francisco Bay Area)(Brief Article)
• Terms of abuse; The stockmarket has yet to bring good governance to companies.(Brief Article)
• How it has (and hasn't) changed - How it has (and hasn't) changed; The world since September 11th.(How the world has (and hasn't) changed)(the world before and after the World Trade Center disaster)(Brief Article)
• Initial jobless claims in America rose by 24,000 to 491,000 (on a four-week moving-average basis), the highest level for more than ten years.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Stinking fish; EU aid to Albania.(The EU's chaotic aid programme in Albania)(Brief Article)
• Doing the splits; London Underground.(An expensive split for the tube)(Brief Article)
• Ataturk's children; Fiction from Turkey.(two novels about Turkey)(Review)
• A hard winter; Canada's right.(Canada's troubled conservatives)(Brief Article)
• Anthrax isn't contagious; anxiety is; The home front.(The Anthrax scare)(anthrax sent to Senate leader Tom Daschle)
• Hunger strikes; Malnutrition.(Brief Article)
• How restive are Europe's Muslims? Muslims in Europe.(restive minority may be growing)
• Stirring stuff; The medieval crusades.(Review)
• Snip, snip, oops! Managing in a downturn.(The difficulty of cutting costs)
• MIA; An incomplete administration.(Brief Article)
• Looking for the pot of gold; What do consumers want from the mobile Internet?
• The uses of adversity; Business in hard times.(How to survive the downturn)(economic adversity, following the World Trade Center disaster)(Brief Article)
• The past is past; Sweden's neutrality.(Sweden slips away from neutrality)(Brief Article)
• Avoiding misconceptions; The Pill.(The Pill at 50)(Review)
• The end of the Alliance? Argentina's congressional elections.(Argentina's Alliance government faces defeat)(elections)(Brief Article)
• Coffee with your tea? Starbucks in China.(Starbucks' success in China)(Brief Article)
• Time to deal on trade; Bipartisanship.(Where bipartisanship can be wrong)(Brief Article)
• Smashing the ceasefire; Israel and the Palestinians.(The bloody events of the past week leave little hope of the truce surviving)(Brief Article)
• Degrees of poverty; Universities.(Universities' financial troubles, UK)(Brief Article)
• Heavyweights humbled; Corruption in Brazil.(Cleaning up Brazil's politics)(Brief Article)
• What the world is reading; American and European bestsellers.
• Bad vibes; European business regulation.(Europe's strange business regulations)(Brief Article)
• One more push; Poles don't want to hear it, but to achieve the prosperity they crave they will have to accept a period of austerity first.(Brief Article)
• The end of the affair? CJD.(Britain may yet escape a CJD epidemic)(Brief Article)
• Patent problems pending; Dealing with anthrax.(Patents, anthrax and antibiotics)(both the US and Canada have threatened to break the patent law on ciprofloxacin in an emergency)(Brief Article)
• So long, banker; Investment banking.(A dreadful year for investment banks, and the future looks no better)
• Holding steady, just, maybe--and maybe not; The German economy.(Germany's troubled economy)(Brief Article)
• Phoney war; The anti-war movement.(Phoney war on the home front)(Brief Article)
• Gotterdammerung; Privatisation in Japan.(Japan's bureaucrats under attack again)(Brief Article)
• God meets Mammon; Employing gangsters.(James Holub, a Jesuit, turns Milwaukee gangsters into programmers)(Brief Article)
• Manure happens; The threat from behind.(The great manure debate)(Brief Article)
• Picture perfect? Broadcasting technology.
• Brave new world; Slovenia online.(Slovenia's online government)(Brief Article)
• Marksism today; Companies at sea.(Review)
• Snip, snip, oops! Managing in a downturn.(the difficulty of cutting costs)
• Just plant dollars; Farm policy.(more money for farmers)(Brief Article)
• Cat among the carrier pigeons; Which of several competing standards for wireless data transmission will prevail?(using wireless fidelity network technology)(Brief Article)
• The need to speak up; Muslims and the West.(Brief Article)
• That's enough loyalty; Bagehot.(Bring back Britain's politics)(Brief Article)
• Comfort eating; Food in New York.(Review)(Brief Article)
• War on terror.
• Don't even think about it... The defence review.(The changing defence debate)(Brief Article)
• Treason of the intellectuals? Lexington.(The anti-war left)(Brief Article)
• Search for speed and reconciliation; Rwanda's genocide.(Rwanda is reviving a traditional judicial system to try more than 100,000 people suspected of genocide)(Brief Article)
• Grounding night flights; Aviation.(court steps into battle between residents and airlines)(Brief Article)
• Quebec thinks continentally; Canadian politics.(A setback for separatism in Quebec)(Brief Article)
• Buying time; Bandwidth trading.(In a downturn, trading bandwidth makes especially good sense)(Brief Article)
• A clash of wills; The economy.(The clash on the economy)(fiscal stimulus is being discussed on a federal level, while states are required to have balanced budgets)(Brief Article)
• Loss of solidarity; The left is up, the right is down. But what does it all add up to?(The left is up, the right is down. But what does it all add up to?)
• Chang Hsueh-liang; Chang Hsueh-liang, a Chinese enigma, died on October 14th, aged 101.(once warlord of Manchuria)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• The news from Argentina remains grim. Industrial production fell by 7.1% in the year to September.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Manuel Fraga; Charlemagne.(Charlemagne: Manuel Fraga, premier of Galicia)(Brief Article)
• Giving up the guns; Northern Ireland.(The IRA has put the peace process back on track)
• Decidedly blue; Kenneth Tynan.(The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan)(Review)
• Ortega's return? Nicaragua's election.(Nicaragua's anachronistic election)(Daniel Ortega)(Brief Article)
• Mixing their drinks; The wine business.(Takeovers in the wine business)(increasing sales of premium wine lead to acquisitions and mergers in Australia, and elsewhere)(Brief Article)
• To run is to lose; New York politics.(New York's election mess)(Brief Article)
• Peace out of war? Israel and the Palestinians.(grim prospects for American-brokered peace in Middle East)(Brief Article)
• The trap of ideas; Bagehot.(The ideas of British Conservatives)(Brief Article)
• A new broom starts sweeping; Bolivia's president.(Bolivia's new-broom president)(Jorge Quiroga seems serious about reforming the Bolivian government)(Brief Article)
• Go on expecting delays; Airports.(Los Angeles Airport congestion)(Brief Article)
• Wireless bunfight; Who would have thought that thin air could be so competitive?(Who would have thought that thin air could be so competitive?)
• A fertile future? Contraception in poor countries.(poor countries need more contraceptives)(Brief Article)
• Strange bangs; Georgia and Russia.(Tensions between Georgia and Russia)(Brief Article)
• Exposed; Biography.(Laurens van der Post)(Review)
• Let us be your frontier post; Mexico and the United States.(Mexico's plans to stop terrorists sneaking north)(Brief Article)
• The salvage man; Face value.(How Takashi Hirayama hopes to save Daiei)(Brief Article)
• America back in the middle; Israel and the Palestinians.(America and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict)
• Into the red; Public finances.(tax increases likely for UK)(Brief Article)
• The man with the mini-camera; Richard Leacock.
• Back to business school; MBA programmes.(More people want to take MBAs)
• One woe upon another; The postal service.(The postal service's troubles)(Brief Article)
• Limping towards normality; Poland may be one of Central Europe's most successful reformers, but its new government has plenty left to do, says Matthew Valencia.
• I Renounce Arms - I Renounce Arms; Northern Ireland.(The IRA's historic promise)(Northern Ireland: hope for peace)(Brief Article)
• Plagued by economic crisis, Argentina has seen a dramatic worsening in its credit-rating over the past year.(Brief Article)

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