News from 27/02/2010
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ResumoThe Economist Bahrain Contents Chevron Malaysia International Islamic Financial Centre The world this week Politics Business CFA BMW IG Index The data deluge The beef in Buenos Aires Argentina and the Falklands Nagasaki fallout Japan's frustrating politics Ending the red terror India Attack of the really quite likeable tomatoes Genetically modified food Nomura Spain's Greek tragedy Minding your Ps and al-Qs Torture, or just degrading? This septic isle Summing up for the jury Infantile politics The Economist Online highlights The Economist Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Carbon Trust Socialism for foes, capitalism for friends Societe Generale Welcome to the Hotel Kirchner The first family's businesses Hero, villain or victim of the global age? Britain's prime minister Tory blues The Conservatives' mini-malaise Publish, perish, protest Media and the law If it says ARF, then it's a dog Pensions and tax The latest chapter Assisted suicide Survival tactics Construction jitters All too human International Business Machines Credit Suisse Yanukovich's mixed blessing Ukraine's new president Westerwelle's woes Germany's fractious government Baltic thaw, Aegean freeze Latvia and Greece Lies and whispers Turkey's coup plotters Wild things The Dutch government falls Fresh troubles France's Socialist Party Ontario Europe's bear problem Seizing the reins, at long last Health reform Fired up, ready to go Mitt Romney and the Republicans Grading the dismal scientists The administration's economists Back to the crash The economy Democrats beware Arkansas politics The finger of suspicion Schools and testing Fading are the peacemakers California's prison-guards' union Protecting the weakest America's children Is Barack Obama tough enough? The money trail Corruption in Brazil Political satire Presidential ambitions in Peru In ever-closer union, divided we stand Get out of our canoe Canada's Mohawks Does Mossad really make Israel safer? Israel's controversial intelligence service Not such a success Israeli spies in Lebanon Statuesque or grotesque? Senegal's politics Steady as she goes South Africa's economy Jihadists on the march Somalia's civil war It seems popular, so far Niger's coup A sudden return Nigeria's president Floundering in the foggy fortress Tackling Japan's bureaucracy Not a dinner party India's Naxalite insurgency Played for fools Western aims in Afghanistan Inhospitality Migrant workers in Thailand Democracy in action China's National People's Congress Off the menu Animal welfare in China Banyan The mother of all dictatorships And the price of nuclear power? Sanctions on Iran What's good for General Motors A poll on trust Joining the queue Recruitment firms Taking root The spread of GM crops Just press print The boom in printing on demand Flower power Hype about fuel cells Adding fuel A boardroom row at Repsol Zurich The machine that ran too hot Toyota's overstretched supply chain Schumpeter The emperor's clothes Scots on the rocks East or famine The balance of economic power Risk redefined Emerging-market sovereign debt Circular logic Secondary buy-outs Surf's up Interest-rate risk Buttonwood The very long view The Rockefeller Foundation Financial Times Hole sale Chinese banks Shackling the scapegoats Short-selling rules Lexus Economics focus Low definition Fired up Climate and combustion Sleepy heads How siestas help memory Signs of life Looking for ET A weighty matter Nuclear forensics A voyage of discovery China's roads Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory. By Peter Hessler. Harper Collins; 432 pages; $27.99. Canongate; £14.99 A country's agonising birth How East Timor became Timor-Leste "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die": How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor. By Geoffrey Robinson. Princeton University Press; 317 pages; $35 and £24.95 Bottoms up New York low life Reporting At Wit's End: Tales from The New Yorker. By St. Clair McKelway. Bloomsbury; 619 pages; $18 and £10.99 Professionalising the professor University education in America The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University. By Louis Menand. Norton; 174 pages; $24.95 and £17.99 Intellectual fireworks A biography of Arthur Koestler Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. By Michael Scammell. Random House; 689 pages; $35. Published in Britain as "Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual". Faber and Faber; £25 Making waves A Japanese silversmith The two Peters Old men of the theatre Alexander Haig Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Appointments Tenders Business & Personal Overview FDIC-insured "problem" institutions Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Wall Street bonuses Markets The Economist Oracle The Economist Incredible India Also in this section The Economist Data, data everywhere All too much Monstrous amounts of data A different game Information is transforming traditional businesses Clicking for gold How internet companies profit from data on the web The open society Governments are letting in the light Show me New ways of visualising data Needle in a haystack The uses of information about information New rules for big data Regulators are having to rethink their brief Handling the cornucopia The best way to deal with all that information is to use machines. 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