News from 11/07/2009
2009; Gale Group;
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Roger Liddell Chief executive, Daniel Vogt, Jon Geidt, Nikolaos Diamantis, Robert Ingle, Ilias Tagkopoulos, Norm Stamper, Romano Prodi Former president, Andreas Heraclides,
ResumoThe Economist Rolex Qatar Airways Contents Bahrain The world this week Politics Business Hp America's future Beijing's nightmare Riots in Xinjiang Dodging the bill The great public-sector pension rip-off Have a little more patience with Mr Mukherjee India's budget Appetite suppressant Regulating banks The perils down south Mexico's mid-term election Rocks of ages Deutsche Bank My time in Brussels Reducing a risk Legalising drugs Concentration or dilution? Network power Economist Sustaining an argument Online debates Other highlights Online Contents Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Is China fraying? The devil's punchbowl Regulating banks Extraction Outsourcing torture My Uncle Albion Britain-baiting in Iran Thomson Reuters Hedge-fun managers The agritainment business Siemens Missed opportunity The politics of public-sector pay Ready for the chop? Culling quangos A death revisited The end of MG Rover Pants on fire Barack, Dmitry—and (offstage) Vladimir The Russia/America summit Not captivating now America and eastern Europe Of human superbondage French sovereign debt Two-tier flexibility Unemployment in Spain Borisov's turn Bulgaria rejects its government The dilemmas of Diocletian Croatia's new prime minister Lexus A Belgian national champion Meltdown on the ocean California's budget crisis On the turn? The economy and employment Stalled Traffic congestion Milking it The crisis in dairy farming Pay or play? Health-care reform Megan's law Cyber-bullying and the courts Sorrow in the sunshine Statewatch: Florida The passing of Palin Calderón's hatful of troubles After Mexico's mid-term election Enter the diplomats Post-coup Honduras House of horrors Brazil's scandal-plagued Senate Pigheaded policies Swine flu in Argentina The perils of autocracy Trouble in the United Arab Emirates An odd deal over land The United Arab Emirates and Sudan Go underground Iran's rebellious students The government says it's perky Israel's economy Into Taliban country The war in Afghanistan Hopes suspended India's budget Elsewhere in Turkestan Turkmenistan, gas and stability Long, hot summer Political confrontation in South Korea No wonder why with SBY Indonesia's president re-elected Banyan Blind-sided in Asia New sins, new virtues Faith, economics and ecology Wanted: fresh air Climate change talks Ghost in the machine A cyber-warfare mystery One-dimensional Hollywood in the recession Floppy discs Resuscitating the DVD Breaking Windows Google v Microsoft The fallout from a falling out The Algosaibi and Saad groups Power struggle Exelon's takeover bid for NRG Living on scraps Signs of hope for the car industry End of season The bankruptcy of Christian Lacroix Face value Upwardly mobile Allianz Yuan small step China and the dollar Buttonwood Testing the model Target practice Reforming finance: Bank capital Mortgage mistakes Modifying delinquent loans The brightest and the rest Venture capital in America To "l" and back Nomura's integration of Lehman Number crunch Trade compression Economics focus Walk, don't run Enel Unsatisfactory state Of mice and monkeys Extending lifespan Psyched out Encouraging competitiveness Sons and mothers Sex ratios and maternal environment The start of something big? Solar power and the Sahara desert Enter the dragon China's limits When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World. By Martin Jacques. Allen Lane; 592 pages; £25. To be published in America by Penguin Press in November What to do? The Taliban and drugs Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al-Qaeda. By Gretchen Peters. Thomas Dunne; 320 pages; $25.95. To be published in Britain by Oneworld Publications in September To Live or To Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan. By Nicholas Schmidle. Henry Holt; 254 pages; $25 and £18.99 A year to remember Henry Kissinger in 1973 Kissinger: 1973, The Crucial Year. By Alistair Horne. Simon & Schuster; 457 pages; $30. To be published in Britain as "Kissinger's Year" by Weidenfeld and Nicolson next month Much ado about nothing Physics and philosophy Nothing: A Very Short Introduction. By Frank Close. Oxford University Press; 157 pages; £7.99. To be published by OUP in America next month Gift of illumination Science and the Enlightenment The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. By Richard Holmes. Pantheon Books; 552 pages; $40. HarperPress; £25 Carousel of treasures The Hermitage Amsterdam Robert McNamara Courses Courses Travel Appointments Tenders Business & Personal Fellowships Overview The Economist poll of forecasters, July averages Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Insurance Markets Financial Times Oracle The Economist The Economist Also in this section Lone Star rising Economist Tex-mix The state's best and worst sides Work hard. Be nice A new breed of school for some of the poorest kids Beyond oil The Texan economy is becoming ever more diversified, but energy remains a favourite The red and the blue Whisper it softly, but Texas looks set to become a Democratic state The new face of America Texas is the bellwether for demographic change across the country Economist
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