Economist (US), The

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Articles in January, 2007 issue of Economist (US), The

• Nip/tuck; General Electric.
• I spy with my little gravitational lens; Cosmology.(Mapping the invisible universe)
• Clones to the right of me, jokers to the left; Stem-cell research.
• Cultural revolution; Chinese accounting.(Will China dare to bring truth into accounting?)
• The chancer; Bagehot.(Ken Livingstone, the great survivor of British politics)
• Watch out Dan Brown; New fiction 3.(Book review)
• Looking south; Guyana.(Guyana and Brazil)
• Tough choices, Madam Speaker; The 110th Congress.(America's new Congress)(Nancy Pelosi)
• Greedy guts? Obesity and bacteria.(A connection between obesity and bacteria)
• Hanging the dictator; Saddam Hussein.
• The three Scrooges; Buttonwood.(business investments)
• The going gets tougher; NHS woes.(Trouble ahead for Labour on health-care reform)(National Health Service, United Kingdom)
• Go west, young Chinaman; China and Central Asia.(China woos central Asia)
• Someone in charge, at last; The Czechs' new government.
• Grand dame; Literary biography.
• Dr Diplomat; Cuba.(Cuba's export medicine)
• Man versus machine; Presidential hopefuls.(Barack Obama launches his presidential bid)
• The market rate.(Executives' large pay packets cannot be blamed on poor governance)
• An end to that blue screen of death? Vista and Office.
• Browne out; Big Oil.(Lord Browne)
• The great unbundling; Economics focus.(Economics focus: Theory and globalisation)
• Market forces; Immigrants in Russia.
• Spiritual and temporal; Judaism and the rise of Christianity.(Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations)(Book review)
• Blame it on Rio; Brazil.(Rio de Janeiro's new governor)
• Happy meal; McDonald's.
• Bush loses the upper hand; The state-of-the-union message.
• Waking up and catching up - Green America.(The greening of America)
• Render unto Caesar; Liberty v equality.
• No laughing matter; Nigerian bonds.(Nigeria makes an important international bond debut)
• Grasso's big board.(Grasso's big board)(Richard Grasso)
• May the government at last rein in the Shia militias? Iraq.(Iraq's government and the Shia militias)
• The federalist prescription; Health care and the states.(Extending health care)
• The problem with Made in China - Manufacturing in Asia.
• Diaspora blues; Israel and the Jews.
• Tricky weather; Charlemagne.(Germany takes the EU presidency)
• Up in smoke; Rubbish.(Britain debates burning its rubbish rather than burying it)
• Head-to-head in the clouds; Boeing and Airbus.(Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business)(Book review)
• 'Twixt Washington and Caracas; Nicaragua.(Nicaragua's new president)(Daniel Ortega)
• The urge to surge; Lexington.(George Bush and Iraq)
• Call the blue helmets; Peacekeeping.(The UN's peacekeeping role)
• A modern prophet goes global; Mormons.(Non-Americans now account for more than half the world's Latter-day Saints)
• Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow; Germans and time.(Modernity creeps up on Germany)
• Force of nature; Beatrix Potter.(Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature)(Book review)
• Spellbound; Cuba.(Cuba's uncertain future)
• Turnaround? General Motors.
• Sealing wax and string; Space travel.
• Truth from facts; Chinese business.
• Going, going, up; The art market.(Is there a bubble in modern-art prices?)
• A surprise; Interest rates.(The Bank of England startles the markets)(Brief article)
• Christmas wagers; Amazon worldwide bestsellers.(The Book of General Ignorance)(Brief article)(Book review)
• Rebranding Thaksinomics; Thailand.(Thailand's coup leaders' continued economic bungling)
• Safe in their hands? Bagehot.(The politics of health)
• Poland's loss; Ryszard Kapuscinski.
• Stirred, but not shaken up; Brazil's economy.(Brazil's torpid economy)
• Paying the price; BP.(British Petroleum Company PLC)
• Dreams of Californication; Domestic migration.(Californian outmigration)
• The stockpot.(The story of pay is largely the story of share options)
• The great unravelling; Cotton suicides.(Farmer suicides in India)
• Rich man, poor man - Rich man, poor man; Globalisation and the rise of inequality.
• New gates to storm; Private equity.(Private equity in emerging markets)
• Chasing an elephant; Britain and India.(Britain has yet to profit from a shared history)
• Paper promises; The Duchess Anna Amalia library.
• Magical mystery tour; Ecuador's new president.
• Excellencein a cup; Coffee.
• The long and short of it; State legislatures.
• Don't blink first; Lebanon.(Crisis in Lebanon)
• Kingdoms of this world, and otherwise; World forums.(Gatherings in Nairobi and Davos offer contrasting platforms for religious and secular types)
• Reading the tea leaves; Economics focus.
• Shock and ore; Mining.(Rio Tinto Ltd.)
• Medicine at the top of the world; Hypoxia.(Intensive care, mountaineering and hypoxia)
• Bush-baiting; America's new Congress.(George W. Bush)
• Sweet success; Private banking.(Belgium attracts the jet set)
• A little less of what you fancy; Junk food.(Regulating unhealthy foods is tough, but officials are trying)
• The great job swap; India.(India's poorest state)
• Designer dreams; Art and cities.(Glamorous dreams in Middlesborough)
• Death of a bandit; Islamic extremism in the Philippines.
• Teach us, Mr Mayor; Education in New York.(Mayors and schools)
• - Kilts complex.(Kilts complex)(James Kilts)
• Stirring things apart; Medical technology.(Stirring things apart)
• Not too happy; Egypt.(The mood sours in Egypt)

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