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

• Losing the HP way; Hewlett-Packard.
• Moving on; America's troop deployments.(George Bush and John Kerry fight over troop cuts)
• A great wall of waste - China's environment.(China is slowly starting to tackle its huge pollution problems)
• Double WaMu; Mortgage banks.
• Getting it right; German spelling.(Some Germans prefer the old way of writing their complex language)
• Don't bother to cook; Retailing.(An odd retailing revival)
• Over before it began; Kashmir's peace process.(Kashmir's faltering peace process)
• Move over, CNN; Television.(Al-Jazeera in English)(Brief Article)
• Was he really under fire? Vietnam and the presidency.(John Kerry's war under fire)
• No angels; Darfur's rebels.(The Darfur rebels murder, too)
• Trading wars; Banks.
• Revolving doors; Hungary.(Ferenc Gyurcsany takes over)
• Shonky poms; Naturalisation.(Language tests for native-speakers)(Brief Article)
• Proxy war; Thailand.(Bangkok's mayor race)(mayoral elections)
• A buyer for Shell? Oil.(Shell's uncertain future)
• Makin' it hot; Rock, hip-hop and the election.(Music stars and the election)(Hip-Hop Summit Action Network)(The Vote for Change)
• Plots, alarms and arrests - Chasing al-Qaeda.(Al-Qaeda plots, alarms and arrests)
• Mr Bush's jobs problem; America's economy.(America's economy and the election)
• Mr Erdogan'sGreek friend; Greece and Turkey.(The Turkish and Greek prime ministers hope to turn their personal friendship into solid diplomatic gain)
• The kiss of death; British Muslims.(British institutions try to accommodate Muslims)
• Go to jail; Fiji.(Fiji's justice system)
• The future of Russian business; Putin versus the oligarchs.
• A governor falls; The Missouri primary.(The Missouri governor Bob Holden's race)
• Less safe than before? Iraq's Christians.(The lot of Iraq's Christians)
• Beware of Bondi; Parmalat.(Enrico Bondi to assure investors of Parmalat S.p.A. by his legal actions)
• Oh la la! Britain's language gap.(The gap in linguistic skills between Britons and others is widening)
• Kingdoms of the world in a moment; Henri Cartier-Bresson.(Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose photographs defined the 20th century, died on August 3rd)(Obituary)
• The army flexes its muscles; China.(China's People's Liberation Army in the spotlight)
• Keeping stumm; Executive pay in Germany.(A row over executive pay in Germany)
• Tough, in an uninsured mobile home; Hurricane Charley.(Hurricane Charley's impact)(Brief Article)
• Czeslaw Milosz.(Czeslaw Milosz, a colossus of cold-war culture)(Obituary)
• The auditors' turn; Parmalat.
• A leap forward, or a long march; The European Commission.(The new European Commission president has named a liberal team)
• A new deal; Private universities.(Britain's private university wakes up)
• The blogger king; Cambodia.(Cambodia's absent king)
• Regaining energy; Face value.(Mayo Shattuck and the revival of energy trading)
• X-ray specs; Space telescopes.(Satellite observatories)
• A billion thirsts quenched; Water in poor countries.(Water for the poor)
• Nought to worry about; Currencies.
• The pilgrim looks east; The pope.(Pope John Paul II seeks reconciliation with Orthodoxy as his final mission)
• Birahima's last battle; Ahmadou Kourouma.(Ahmadou Kourouma's last novel)(Book Review)
• A bomb too far; Bangladesh.(Chaos in Bangladesh)
• Opportunity knocks; Marketing.(Mexican business invades America)
• A trio of surprises; John Kerry's energy policy.
• Bad days in Najaf; Iraq.(The battle for Najaf)
• Independence day; Equity research.
• It's those people, all over again; Germany.(Proposals to trim unemployment benefit have triggered anger and confusion in Germany's east)
• Searching for a pulse; Hospital elections.(Hospitals scour the wards for voters)
• In the line of fire; Australia.(John Howard's political troubles)
• Fools rush in; Doing business in China.(China's irrational business climate continues to claim foreign victims)
• Take a chance on me? Swing states: Nevada.
• Who's in charge? Palestine.(The battle for control among Palestinians)
• Next stop, $50? Oil.(The oil price)
• New style for new money; Big houses.(Concrete palaces are on the way)
• Birds on a wire; John James Audubon.(Biographies of John James Audubon, bird artist extraordinaire)(Book Review)
• Pinochet's tarnished coin; Chile.(Investigating Chile's dictator Augusto Pinochet)
• The broader art of deregulation; European telecoms.(France's competitive broadband market)
• Language barriers; Linguistics.
• A big man on a tightrope; Israel and the Palestinians.
• The hazards of a long, hard freeze; Former Soviet war zones.(It may be time to settle the stalemated disputes of the former Soviet republics)
• Calling the turn; Housing market.(Britain's cooling housing market)
• Another bright young hope; Japan.(Japan's youthful opposition leader)(Katsuya Okada)
• For the scrap-heap? The CIA.(New proposals for the CIA)
• Julia Child.(Julia Child, cookery teacher)
• How not to help those in need; Third-world water and the private sector.
• Coincidence or terror? Russian air crashes.(Two aircraft crashes in Russia)
• Inadmissible evidence; Compensation culture.(A misguided attack on a genuine legal problem)
• The banker, the mullahs and the inscrutable general at the top; Pakistan.(Pakistan's new prime minister)
• You don't have to be mad to work here; Doing business in dangerous places.(The reward in taking risks)
• Losing its way; The economy.(The soggy economy)
• Claiming one's inheritance; Twin studies, genetics and the environment.
• High noon in Najaf; Iraq.
• Fear of floating; Initial public offerings.
• Where have all the homeless gone?(The decline of rough sleeping)
• Problems of identity; Turkish fiction.(New novels from two leading Turkish writers)(Book Review)
• Paying to avoid ads; Advertising.(Adland finds it harder to reach consumers)
• Measure for measure; After the Democratic convention.(Measuring John Kerry)
• Ever farther, ever faster, ever higher? - Sport and drugs.(Drugs in sports)
• Drugs and the Olympics - Drugs and the Olympics; Sport.
• Gunning for local power; Kosovo and Macedonia.(In both Kosovo and Macedonia, relations between Albanians and Slavs could lead to fresh violence)

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