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Articles in August, 1999 issue of New Internationalist

• Lolita & The Prophet are ostracized - Egyptian censors ban books ordered by Cairo's American Bookstore
• Dancin' circles: you might standardize texts and even teaching but some children will still burst out of the box, as Daniel Ferri recalls
  by Daniel Ferri
• Women in the new Asia
• Typewriter guerrillas: government attacks critical journalism - Pakistan's
  by Ahmar Mustikhan
• White goddess
• Mona 's mission: … Reem Haddad reports on the fight to save Beirut's old houses from being demolished - Hallak
  by Reem Haddad
• IDEAL and reality: … Bangladesh's programme to revolutionize primary schools is not exactly popular with teachers …
  by Sameera Huque
• Cafe Atlantico: Cesaria Evora
• Country profile: Azerbaijan
  by Juliet Crawley Peck
• Education - one of only a number of important issues tackled in the New Internationalist
  by Chris Brazier
• Testing, testing, 1 2 3: the drive for more tests and school league tables is sweeping the world. Education is being turned into an industry …
• Sosabi: Cape Verdean music from New England
• White goddess — being the book that looks slantwise at deity and poetry
  by Robert Loughrey
• Red alert! - missile systems on alert status that are not Y2K compliant could trigger a nuclear disaster
• Ataturk's children: repression is the legacy of a regime in Turkey where anything goes - so long as it's not Islamic …
  by Arzu Merali
• Quiet escape: girls in rural Pakistan have a slim chance of schooling, but Charlotte Carlsson unearths a small success story in the wilderness
  by Charlotte Carlsson
• Robyn Archer: Paul Rees catches up with one of Australia's cultural whirlwinds
  by Paul Rees
• Drag king book
• Come out of hiding: activists seek to reveal the privatization of warfare
• Meeting of misers: no talk of bullets in the boardrooms - of Burma
  by Adam Porter
• Pregnant and penniless - the U.S. is one of few industrialized countries with no legal requirement for maternity leave
• Legal rights, social wrongs - the banning of female genital mutilation meets opposition in Senegal
• Crying shame - South African mine workers seek redress of grievance over exposure to asbestos
• Great education scandal: around 375 million children still out of school… who is selling the world's children down the river?
  by Chris Brazier
• Gender canyon: getting girls into schools in the South is literally a matter of life and death … Can `gender-sensitive' education help … ?
• Making it happen: every child's right to schooling could be delivered if the world cared enough to make it happen …
  by Chris Brazier
• Safe lies - the marketing of tuna under the label `dolphin safe' is misleading
• Class wars: five young journalists … from the international news service Children's Express visited Tanzania recently to look at … debt …
  by and others Oliver Robertson
• Facing the mirror
• Last dance