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Articles in May, 2003 issue of Economist (US), The

• A star falls? Face value.(Robin Saunders, financier under fire)
• Swings and see-saws; Arkansas politics.(The plight of Arkansas's moderate Democrats)
• Design flaws.(Design flaws)
• The next bubble to pop? Property prices.(House prices are heading for a fall)
• A slight Resonance; Japan's auditors.(Japan's auditors get tougher)(accounting standards)
• Bleeding them dry; Blood disposal.(A bloody nuisance for slaughterhouses)
• A classic on killing; Capital punishment.('The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment')(Book Review)
• A majority, sort of; Brazil's president and his Congress.(Brazil's Congress)
• Have fat cats had their day? Executive pay.(The shareholder revolt against executive pay)
• Girl power; Human evolution.(Mothers, malnutrition and daughters)
• Good news only, from now on; Zimbabwe.(Zimbabwe evicts our correspondent)
• The new bull market; Political-risk analysis.(The boom in political-risk analysis)
• Shock news: policy works; Asylum-seekers.(Asylum-seeker numbers fall; United Kingdom)
• Who killed Daniel Pearl? Islamic terrorism.(Book Review)
• Set our gizmos free; Japan.(Japan and deregulation)
• Hard times; Softbank's woes.(Softbank struggles on)
• Batteries not included? Miniature fuel cells.(The new way to power your laptop)
• Not happy, not united; The UN and Iraq.(The UN Security Council divides over reconstruction)
• Paying for Saddam's sins; Economics focus.(Debt and reparations in Iraq)
• Cod's own country; Iceland's election.(Iceland's record-breaking prime minister)(David Oddsson)
• Are you being served? Buying shops.(British shops change hands)
• How big a dent in the economy? China counts the cost of SARS.(SARS in China)
• In a deal reminiscent of the dotcom boom years.(global business news)
• A sour aftertaste; The Wall Street settlement.(conflict-of-interest scandal)
• Plastic pricing; Credit and debit cards.(Visa and MasterCard settle with retailers)
• Euroflop; Transport.(Eurostar's troubles)
• The axis of good; Japan.(Is Junichiro Koizumi Asia's Tony Blair?)
• An ill wind.(Tornadoes on the rampage - US)(Brief Article)
• Paradise lost.(information technology)(Industry Overview)(Critical Essay)
• How's your pension doing? - How's your pension doing? Pensions.(Corporate pensions)(Industry Overview)
• Deep impact; Bank regulation.(Repercussions of a new bank-capital regime)(Basel 2 rules)(Industry Overview)
• Is Poland America's donkey or could it become NATO's horse? The "new Europe" and America.
• Breaking waves; New fiction.('Star of the Sea')(Book Review)(Brief Article)
• Not such a threat after all; China.(China and the internet)
• G-whiz; Space tourism.(Zero-gravity experiences are coming to a city near you)
• Phew; Georgia's state flag.(Georgia decides on a new flag, at last)
• Hot and cold running money.
• Graham Thomas.(gardener)(Biography)
• Everyone's a winner; Russian corporate governance.(A fair Russian privatisation?)(Unified Energy System)
• Remedial finance; State universities.(State universities at risk)
• Shoot 'em up; Visual perception.(Visual perception and video games)
• Secret weapons; Iraq's WMD.(The case for war, revisited)(weapons of mass destruction)
• How football unites Europe; Charlemagne.(Footballers do better than politicians at making Europe work)
• Rail wail; Rail.(Fares rise, hopes fall)(United Kingdom transportation)
• A bug's game; Entomology.('What Good Are Bugs?: Insects in the Web of Life')(Book Review)(Brief Article)
• The empty-handed social democrat; Argentina's new president.
• John Snow comes adrift; Lexington.(John Snow and the dollar)(US Secretary of the Treasury)
• Town mouse, country mouse; Mouse evolution.(The urbanisation of mice)
• The right to be beautiful.
• France's man on horseback; Charlemagne.(The enduring division between France and America)
• The ties that do bind.(The relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown)
• Model colours; Butterflies.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
• Castro's grim phoney war; Cuba and the United States.(Cuba's crackdown, and the United States)
• Too little, too late; Media ownership rules.(radio broadcasting industry )
• The other AIDS epidemic; HIV-2.(The tale of the second virus)
• Success story; Kirkuk's fortunes.(The fortunes of a northern Iraqi city)
• Quaking; Seismic stockmarkets.(Earth science comes to market)
• We're not children! German foreign policy.(Germany's new foreign-policy)
• Why the falling pound brings gloom; The pound.(The consequences of the falling pound)
• The blue lagoon; Marshall Islands.(Missiles over the Pacific)
• Back to work; Iraq's oil.(Industry Overview)
• Brazil's current account moved into surplus in March, helping to narrow the 12-month deficit to less than 1% of GDP.(Brief Article)
• Will a quartet of Euro-enthusiasts undermine NATO? Europe's defence.(A small group of Europeans tries to undermine NATO)
• Stinks tanks; Science.(Collapsing chemistry education)
• Hamid Karzai's ragtime infantry; Afghanistan.(Afghanistan's armies)
• Deja vu all over again.(information technology and customers)(Industry Overview)
• On the tube; Nanoelectronics.(A new type of computer memory: carbon)(Industry Overview)
• Big end, little end or thin end? National Health Service.(UK)
• Super-euro; Currencies.(The euro revives)
• A plague on all your houses; Local elections.(Local election results)
• Swinging London; Crime in the 18th century.('The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century')(Book Review)
• Ontario's student bulge; Canada's universities.(The strain on Canada's universities)
• The first casualty of war; Face value.(Greg Dyke and the coverage of the war)(Iraq War)
• Steamroller Ashcroft; Lexington.(John Ashcroft on the rampage)
• A cruel sea of capital.(global financial integration)
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• A place for capital controls; Global finance.(The case for capital controls)(trade in capital)
• Just not cricket; Lexington.(Problems with baseball)(major-league baseball)
• Location, location, location.(Location, location, location)
• Alejandro De Tomaso.(Obituary)
• Under attack; Northwestern Mutual.(Northwestern Mutual under web attack)(Company Profile)

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