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Articles in January, 2004 issue of Economist (US), The

• A virus with a motive; Computer security.
• The man who would be king; New Hampshire and beyond.(Another good day for John Kerry)
• Eatanswill revisited - America's election.(The new rules of politics in a 50:50 nation)
• Deja vu all over again; Microsoft.(antitrust cases against media-player software)
• Forward, March; Russia's presidential election.(Vladimir Putin coasts to re-election)
• Monkey dust-up; Terrorism.(A defeat for reason)(Cambridge University's neuroscience lab)
• Russian dolls; New fiction.(Oracle Night)(Book Review)
• Disarming, bit by bit; Colombia's paramilitaries.(A row over talks with Colombia's paramilitaries)
• Africa's engine.(South Africa)
• Their last chance? - Iran.(The state of Iran)
• Making Africa smile - Making it smile; Sub-Saharan Africa.(Mending sub-Saharan Africa)
• Reborn, remade, resold; Japanese bank reform.(Preparing for a return to the stockmarket)(Shinsei Bank)
• Life and death; Prison suicides.(Suicide among lifers)
• Prozac and Freud; Psychiatry.('Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs,' 'Killing Freud: Twentieth-Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis' and 'The Mummy at the Dining Room Table: Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Un
• Trouble down south; Thailand.(Thailand's violent south)
• Broken China; The chip industry.(Another looming trade dispute?)
• The curse of nepotism; Lexington.(Meritocracy in universities)(Column)
• So lonely; Syria.(Syria's diplomatic isolation)
• Still out there - Still out there; Al-Qaeda.(The West versus al-Qaeda: a scorecard)
• Lower education; German universities.(Troubles in German higher education)
• PFInancing new hospitals; Health service.([pounds sterling]11 hospital-building programme)
• A shrinking giant; Japan.(Japan's population)
• MBAs for anoraks; Business schools.(A new sort of business school)
• A new sort of wind power; Cowtown in the desert.(Cows in the desert, unwhiffy)
• Freud, finance and folly.(handling risk)
• Equatorial Torah; Uganda's Jews.(The Jews of Uganda)(Brief Article)
• Go for the vote; Democratising Iraq.
• Vlad the webmeister; Russia's president.(Politics explained to Russian children)(Vladimir Putin)
• Nuclear futures; Dealing with North Korea.(Book Review)
• Hitting the slopes; China.(Skiing in China)
• Shell shock; Oil.(Shell's shocking news)(Royal Dutch/Shell reserves cut)
• This time, sorry may not be enough; Face value.(Face value: The troubles of Shell's Sir Philip Watts)(Royal Dutch/Shell)
• John Edwards's cunning ploy; The Oklahoma primary.(The Oklahoma primary outlook)
• At least they're thinking of talking; Middle East diplomacy.(Talks about talks between Israel and Palestine)
• The importance of backing Erdogan; Turkey.(Why Turkey matters to the West)
• Dropping the pilot; Germany's welfare state.(Booting out the labour agency's boss)
• Not guilty; Hutton report: "Sexing up" the dossier.(Lord Hutton's conclusions)
• The virtuous rage of George Soros; American foreign policy.(The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power)(Book Review)
• A few good men; The argument about "enemy combatants".(The battles of Guantanamo Bay)
• Breathing life into dead capital.(property rights)
• More squeeze than grab; Land reform in South Africa.(South Africa's sane land reforms)
• No Headline.(Brief Article)
• Erdogan's gamble; Turkey and Cyprus.(A shift on northern Cyprus)
• Return of the wrinklies; Employment.(Increase in older workers)
• When the vow breaks; Celibacy.('Celibacy in Crisis: A Secret World Revisited')(Book Review)
• Back from lunch; India.(India's reinvigorated prime minister)
• Soaring Sorin; Italian business.(Not all bad news in Italy)(Sorin Biomedica S.p.A.)(Company Profile)
• Hard act to follow; Half-changed Milwaukee.
• Getting nicer; Iran's diplomacy.(Iran's cosier new diplomacy)
• Botox shot; Recapitalising China's banks.(Cosmetic capital injections)
• Europe in a spin; Charlemagne.(The European Union presidency)
• Breathlessly to victory; The war on terrorism.(An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror)(Book Review)
• Another bombshell? North Korea.(North Korea steps up the pressure)
• Meet the oleagarchs; Russia's business rows.(More woe for Russia's oligarchs)
• Good intentions, bad technology; Voting machines.(The new voting machines)
• Malignant maths; Cancer modelling.
• A slow march; South Africa's war on AIDS.(AIDS in South Africa)
• On the edge; Japanese shares.(Insanity rules in Japan's stockmarket)
• Systematic chaos; German tax reform.(The debate about tax reform in Germany)
• Rich man, poor man; Biography.(Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography)(Book Review)
• Some peace, no development; Myanmar.(Myanmar's political and economic woes)
• Drink to that; Viral marketing.(Vodka and viral marketing)(42 Below online advertising)
• Real-time reality; Company reports.(The case for daily profits)
• Where it's at; Galileo and GPS.(Satellite-navigation networks)
• The man to beat Bush? - The man to beat Bush? John Kerry.(Assessing John Kerry)
• Signifying nothing? Economics focus.(Insignificant economics?)
• Not so Keyne; Urban design.(Why Milton Keynes resists becoming a "proper" city)
• Shooting history; Sundance film festival.(September Tapes)(Movie Review)
• Towards peace? Kashmir.(Prospects of negotiation over Kashmir)
• Love and death.(AIDS in Africa)
• Tunbridge Wells strikes back; The evolution of disgust.(The purpose of disgust)
• Two governments, both duds; Iran.(Stand-off in Iran)
• Ackermann's trials; Deutsche Bank.(A heap of trouble)(Josef Ackermann)
• The lure of Brussels; Jobs in Europe.(New commissioners from Central and Eastern Europe)
• Betrayal in Berlin; New fiction.('Snowleg')(Book Review)
• The shock of the comparative; Japan.(Ratings in Japan)(reaction to criticism of restaurants, hospitals and universities)
• Black and blacker; Corporate scandals, continued.(More corporate scandal)(Hollinger International)
• Last Action Hero; California.(California surprised by Schwarzenegger)(Arnold Schwarzenegger)
• Martyrdom and murder - Suicide terrorism.
• Top marks for cynicism; British Conservatives and university fees.(Reforming British universities)

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