News from 19/06/2010
2010; Gale Group;
Autores
Aymenn Jawad, John Penhallurick, Avi Levin, David Hagan, Kenneth Hill, James Thornberry, ZoË Hill,
ResumoThe Economist Rolex Singapore sessions Contents Thomson Reuters The world this week Politics Business Barclays Wealth This won't hurt (much) Obama v BP American politics and business Palantir Stalin's latest victims Kyrgyzstan Turning-point The human-genome project Ontario Stop messing around Iraq's flagging democracy Hamas: an obstacle to peace Taking pride in your work Mortality data The pits Plus ça change. . . Bridging the gulf over BP Economist Hewlett-Packard Online highlights The Economist Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Stalin's harvest Pick your poison Worth a go Taxing carbon Talent Capital Singapore Long time coming The Bloody Sunday Inquiry Pomp and circumstance Financial regulation Reach for the Sky News Corporation Racing green The British car industry Still messed up Parliamentary expenses A change of prescription The National Health Service Eontalkingenergy Let's be friends How buoyant is France? France's public finances The indomitable de Gaulle De Gaullemania Angela's clashes Germany's coalition Spain isn't working Labour reform in Spain Fresh air Slovak and Czech politics Far right, wrong step Danish politics Toyota If only it were that easy Can pay, won't pay Public finances Hand to mouth New York state's budget Is all politics local? Texas Democrats Divide to conquer Transport in Georgia Cheques and imbalances Money from Wall Street Too narrow, too soon? Vocational training International Business Machines The 70-30 nation 49th parallels Canada's politics A loonie boondoggle Canadian summitry An Iranian banana skin Brazil's foreign policy Kamikaze mission Crime and politics in Guatemala Sectarian animosity still prevails Iraq's divisions Under siege too Israel's democracy A general insists they must be fair Guinea's elections Stoking up violence Kenya's constitutional referendum Chinese whispers China's secret media Steps forward, steps back Reform in Indonesia A widening gap Timor-Leste and Australia Permanent emergency Australia's aborigines Banyan Land of the impure The clash of data civilisations Legal confusion on internet privacy Son of Copenhagen Climate talks continued Barclays Capital Good and hungry The changes facing fast food Doubles all round Scotch whisky Apps and downs Growth in mobile applications Buying votes Political advertising in America Keeping up with the Gateses Philanthropy Glitzkrieg Luxury goods in Poland The Economist Schumpeter Planning for the sequel The oil well and the damage done Credit Suisse The clock ticks Global rebalancing Cash in hand Sovereign-wealth funds The won that got away Capital controls in South Korea Buttonwood Something doesn't fit A new dominion Retail banking in America Economics focus Rights and wrongs No end to dementia Alzheimer's disease A blaze of glory Japan's space programme Watch those pigs! Swine flu Dialogue Vegetative state An in-depth operation Surgical technology The permanent party The Chinese Communist Party The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers. By Richard McGregor. Harper; 302 pages; $27.99. Allen Lane; £25 The battle for Texas The tale of the Comanches Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History. By S. C. Gwynne. Scribner; 384 pages; $27.50 France's noble, exasperating icon General de Gaulle The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved. By Jonathan Fenby. Simon & Schuster; 707 pages; £30 All guns blazing The misuse of science Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. By Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. Bloomsbury; 368 pages; $27 and £25 Lift your glasses Dealing in Old Masters Cheap perfume and fried chicken Leon Levinstein's New York The Economist The unacknowledged giant Announcements Courses Courses Courses Appointments Appointments Appointments Business & Personal Overview Refugees Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Daily newspaper revenue Markets Malaysia International Islamic Financial Centre Patek Philippe The Economist Philips Also in this section Economist Biology 2.0 Marathon man Genomics has not yet delivered the drugs, but it will Where are they now? The big beasts of genomics It's personal Individualised genomics has yet to take off The dragon's DNA The next advances in genomics may happen in China Inhuman genomes Every genome on the planet is now up for grabs, including those that do not yet exist The soul of an old machine Genomics is raising a mirror to humanity, producing some surprising reflections No hiding place Everyday genomics is coming, ready or not Economist
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