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Articles in November, 2005 issue of Economist (US), The

• On the mat; Advertising.(direct mail is losing its effectiveness)
• Folly by numbers; Reforming Taiwan's banks.
• Chilling; Natural gas.(Spiking prices give business the jitters)
• The last word; Brands and branding.(Kellogg on Branding)(Book Review)
• France's perennial takeover target; Face value.(Franck Riboud tries to keep Danone independent)
• Jacking up; Offshore oil rigs.(high oil prices have created a rig-building boom)
• Spoilt for choice; Medicare.(Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage)
• Igor's turn; Iran and nuclear diplomacy.(Russia enters the nuclear diplomacy with Iran)
• Crouching trader, leaping prices; Commodities.(Speculation and the copper price)
• Explosive; Turkey and the Kurds.(More unrest in the south-east)
• Queen and country; Anglicanism.(The Anglican synod meets)
• Shooting the messengers; Nepal.(human rights issues)
• Punching above its weight; Israel's technology industry.(The secret of Israel's high-tech success)
• The prodigal son; Ahmed Chalabi.(Mr Chalabi in America)
• An underclass rebellion - France's riots.(The French riots)
• A surprising boom; The airline industry.
• Recycling the petrodollars; Oil producers' surpluses.
• Meyer culpa; The Iraq war.(Could Tony Blair have delayed the Iraq war?)
• It's Nottingham, but not as we know it; China.(Foreign universities in China)
• Survival of the biggest; European telecoms.(Telefonica Co. to acquire O2 Communications (Ireland) Ltd.)(job cuts in Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Not in my neighbourhood; McMansions.(An argument about size)
• Critical acceptance.(Critical acceptance)(Industry Overview)
• Wrong guy to kill; Palestine and Israel.(Israel's targeting error)
• Bondi and the bankers; The future of Parmalat.(Enrico Bondi )
• Approaching Europe; The Balkans.(Balkan hopes for European Union membership)
• Brassed off; Music.(Industry Overview)
• Here's Hu; China.(China's peripatetic president)(Hu Jintao)
• To come.
• All-weather wonderland; Snowmaking.(Better ways to make snow)
• No place for your daughters; Women in a dangerous world.(Fewer warriors, but more victims of violence)
• Marking the dealer's cards; Economics focus.(economics focus: the dollar)
• Not whether, but how, to withdraw; The home front.(arguing about Iraq)
• Peaceful, rebuilt but still divided; Bosnia ten years on.(the tenth anniversary of the Dayton Accords)
• All the world's a stage; Dancing schools.
• Tigers and a hawk; Sri Lanka.(Sri Lanka's new president faces old dilemmas in pursuing peace)(Mahinda Rajapakse)
• A peace of sorts; The internet.(controlling of internet)
• Press gang; Newspapers in America.(Private Capital Management to sell Knight Ridder)
• Focusing on perfection; Optics.(negative refractive index )
• Old Labour? Israel.(The new leader of Israel's Labour party)(Amir Peretz)
• Market mania; Financial exchanges.(IntercontinentalExchange)
• Whipping the commission into shape; Charlemagne.(about European Commission's president Jose Manuel Barroso)
• A tall storey; City skyscrapers.(skyscraper construction in London, England)
• The kimchi wars; South Korea.(the kimchi wars)(exports to China of contaminated food product)(Brief Article)
• The next big thing; Face value.
• At last, something for the Democrats to cheer about; The off-year elections.(Mr Bush in some trouble)(George Bush)
• Caught in the middle, as usual; Jordan.(The bombers hit Jordan)
• How to lose friends and alienate people; Torture.(excluding spies from torture ban)
• How not to fix an election; Azerbaijan.(After the parliamentary vote on November 6th)
• After the defeat; The prime minister and his party.(Tony Blair)
• Over a barrel; India, Iraq and Iran.(India and Iraq)
• A crackdown too far; Corporate crime.(Jamie Olis of Dynegy sentenced to jail)
• The faithful on the front-line; Texas's dangerous churches.(A pastor dies in strange circumatsances)(Brief Article)
• Melodic mice; Mating songs.
• An oily slope; Windfall taxes.
• Hanoi calling; Vietnam's maiden international bond.(Vietnam's first foreign bond)
• Ho, ho, very satirical; Italian television.(Political satire on Italian television)
• Books for cooks; Amazon worldwide bestsellers.(Bibliography)
• You can't say that here; Cambodia.(Cambodia's creeping authoritarianism)(Hun Sen)
• You can't win.(economic reforms and development under Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi)
• Fear not; Neurogenetics.(The genetics of fear)(stathmin)
• The meaning of Xbox; Microsoft.(Xbox 360)
• Fermenting trouble; Thailand's stockmarket.
• Boxed in; The digital home.(big technology vendors are piling into people's living rooms)
• The shaggiest prize; Hunting.(bison in Montana)(Brief Article)
• And now, get on with it; Northern Ireland.(New plans for Northern Ireland)
• Merit in motion; Ivy League universities.(The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton)(Book Review)
• Go south, old man; Retiring Americans.(Retired Americans flood south to Mexico)
• Pants on fire; Lexington.(George W. Bush defends accuracy of military intelligence prior Iraq War)
• Let them breathe; The Gaza strip.(Condoleezza Rice helps open up the Gaza strip)
• Detroit's wounded giant; General Motors.
• The aftermath; France.(France's riots)
• A glimpse into the abyss; Bagehot.(Labour's future under Tony Blair)
• Gouged; Medicine in China.
• Death throes; Canada.(The manoeuvrings around Canada's next election)
• A negotiator's lot; The North Korea debate.(Dealing with North Korea)
• Seeking scientific autonomy; Science policy.
• Blair bashing; Labour's terror rebellion.(Tony Blair)
• Never did run smooth; European bank mergers.
• Flawed design; Tax credits.(How not to deliver benefits)
• A fresh look; Jihadists.(Book Review)

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