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Silencing of the lambs (08 May 06:10) |
| Abuse in childhood may change the way genes workA FEW years ago, researchers in Montreal produced a disturbing finding. By the simple act of neglecting her young, a mother rat could permanen... |
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Whose pants on fire? (08 May 06:10) |
| The latest lie-detector trial suggests the best way to detect liars may be to lieWHETHER it be changes in body language, sweaty palms or fluctuations in brain activity, no surrogate marker o... |
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Naughty nesters (08 May 06:10) |
| How cuckoos trick their way into another bird's nestCUCKOLDS are men whose wives gave birth to infants that were blatantly not their own. The well known trickery of the cuckoo, the bird from... |
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Albert Hofmann (08 May 06:10) |
| Albert Hofmann, chemist, died on April 29th, aged 102HIS first experience was ?rather agreeable?. As he worked in the Sandoz research laboratory in Basel in Switzerland on April 16th 1943, i... |
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The Economist poll of forecasters, May averages (08 May 06:10) |
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Broad money supply (08 May 06:10) |
| Many central banks keep one eye on broad measures of the money supply for signs that the economy is overheating or cooling. If money flowed around the economy at a stable rate, an annual inc... |
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Whose side are they all on? (08 May 06:10) |
| The Americans and the Iraqis find it hard to read the ambiguities in Iran's policy towards IraqIN HIS five years as Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari has often expressed alarm at the p... |
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Mixed signals (08 May 06:10) |
| A run-off for the presidency beckons, but will the opposition take part?FOLLOWING the aftermath of Zimbabwe's presidential election is like watching a horror film in slow motion. It took ove... |
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Anxious times (08 May 06:10) |
| Violence in a notoriously rugged country has worsened A POOR, mountainous country that clings to the south-west tip of the Arabian peninsula, Yemen seems in danger of falling into Somalia's ... |
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Scorpions stung (08 May 06:10) |
| South Africa's special crime-busting team may be on its way outTHE future of the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO), better known as the Scorpions, South Africa's special unit fighting ... |
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The elusive negawatt (08 May 06:10) |
| If energy conservation both saves money and is good for the planet, why don't people do more of it?IN WONKISH circles, energy efficiency used to be known as ?the fifth fuel?: it can help to ... |
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Nearer to overcoming (08 May 06:10) |
| Barack Obama's success shows that the ceiling has risen for African-Americans. But many are still too close to the floorWHEN Roland Fryer was about 15, a friend asked him what he would be do... |
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The wandering Palestinian (08 May 06:10) |
| Whether they be in Nahr al-Bared (shown below), Nazareth or Nablus, Palestinians are united by loss and by hopeNAHR AL-BARED in Lebanon was a wind-blown huddle of tents when the first refuge... |
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Speedy decline (01 May 05:39) |
| Success in the war against methamphetamines?at a certain priceA FEW years ago Pierce county, in Washington state, was in the grip of a methamphetamine epidemic. Toothless addicts roamed quie... |
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Prove who you are (01 May 05:39) |
| A ruling that targets the disorganised, rather than DemocratsHOWARD DEAN calls it an affront. The Nation, a lefty organ, says it is a fraud. Republicans are cheering. No, not John McCain's l... |
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Shock tactics (01 May 05:39) |
| Graphic ads have reversed a trendTHE most famous American anti-drug advert of the 1980s starred an egg. It was first displayed in pristine condition: ?This is your brain.? The egg was then c... |
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More workaday than thou (01 May 05:39) |
| A battle to appeal in the make-or-break stateIN 1840 William Henry Harrison, the former governor of the Indiana Territory, won the presidency by boasting of his fondness for hard cider and l... |
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Priming the pump (01 May 05:39) |
| All three candidates promise to lower petrol pricesACCORDING to a new poll by Public Agenda and Foreign Affairs, six out of ten Americans think reducing energy dependence will help national ... |
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Hands off, maybe (01 May 05:39) |
| Congress bans certain abuses of genetic informationLOUISE SLAUGHTER is a woman ahead of her time. Informed by her university studies in microbiology decades ago, this congresswoman from New ... |
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Power points (01 May 05:39) |
| The slogans of political Islam remain highly resonant, whether as a programme for peaceful governance or an inspiration to wage war. Two new books explain why WHEN the British and French emp... |
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An invitation to the dance (01 May 05:39) |
| A happy life luckily peopledNOT everyone will approve of Ferdinand Mount's beautifully written, poignant and, at times, extremely funny memoir. Some will be irritated by the author's indefat... |
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End of an era (01 May 05:39) |
| Revisiting the fall of SmyrnaWHEN Smyrna?modern Izmir?fell to the Turkish army in 1922, and much of it was destroyed by fire, the city's role as a bastion of Greek and Christian culture, goi... |
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Sex and sensibility (01 May 05:39) |
| Suffering in Africa and wisdom in the oldest professionMORE than 2m people die from AIDS every year and as many get infected with HIV. Despite grand programmes to roll out anti-retroviral dr... |
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True stories (01 May 05:39) |
| Hope and inspiration fuel the most popular biographies and autobiographiesWHEN Greg Mortenson, a six-foot-four night-nurse and mountaineer from Montana, first visited Pakistan in 1993 to cli... |
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Memory and forgetting (01 May 05:39) |
| Love, loss and the drama of dreams?EVEN the dearest that I love the best/Are strange?nay, stranger than the rest.? This couplet by John Clare, a 19th-century English poet, runs through the a... |
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Look behind you (01 May 05:39) |
| A comedian seeks Osama bin Laden ON THE pretext of looking for the world's most wanted man, Morgan Spurlock, television producer, documentary-film maker and director in 2004 of the irreveren... |
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On capital inflows, Barack Obama, Tony Blair, Turkey, medals, Silvio Berlusconi, Heathrow (01 May 05:39) |
| SIR ? You should have been bolder in your claim that ?over time capital inflows are becoming less risky and the collateral benefits more tangible? (Economics focus, April 12th). An IMF study... |
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Sarkozy's difficult year (01 May 05:39) |
| The French are right to be disappointed in their presidentA YEAR is a short time to achieve much in politics, but Nicolas Sarkozy, who was elected president of France 12 months ago, led the ... |
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Angry China (01 May 05:39) |
| The recent glimpses of a snarling China should scare the country's government as much as the worldCHINA is in a frightening mood. The sight of thousands of Chinese people waving xenophobic f... |
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The American way of trustbusting (01 May 05:39) |
| Rooting out price-fixing benefits sound businesses as well as consumersIN 1970s America five executives convicted of fixing the price of sticky labels ended up having to give lectures about ... |
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Too soon to relax (01 May 05:39) |
| Sentiment has improved, but lots of financial problems remainIS IT really over? In the middle of March investors were worried that the financial system was going to hell in a handcart. Analy... |
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The right time to chop (01 May 05:39) |
| Rich-country governments must ignore special pleading to restrict farm tradeWHO says farmers are inflexible? In rich countries, they have long justified farm hand-outs by pointing to low wor... |
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Belonging in Israel (24 April 06:11) |
| What does it mean to be an outsider in the Holy Land? A new generation of Israeli documentary-makers examines a thorny questionIT IS no surprise that in Israel, a country constructed around ... |
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How to spend it (24 April 06:11) |
| A region awash with oil money has one or two clouds on the horizonTHE Gulf is full of loud architectural statements?towers that reach over 600 metres into the sky, hotels that will be suspen... |
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Waves of pleasure (24 April 06:11) |
| A very Australian coming-of-age storyRICHLY Australian, ?Breath? is a classic coming-of-age novel, which is not to pigeonhole the work as small or pat. Thomas Wolfe and James Joyce among man... |
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The unremembered (24 April 06:11) |
| Unreliable narrators clash at an Irish mental hospitalTHE self-enclosed world of the dramatic monologue is one of the greatest fictional devices. Think of Hamlet. Think of Macbeth. Or of Rob... |
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Correction: Babylon (24 April 06:11) |
| In our report on the Babylon exhibition in Paris (?Ere Babylon was dust?, April 12th) we mistakenly attributed the building of the Tower of Babel to the Jews exiled to Babylon in 586BC. This... |
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An unorthodox insight (24 April 06:11) |
| An Englishman takes their measure, one card game at a timeTHIS account of life in Cairo is sex and the city with a difference. Young Cairene women are as elegant and as sex-obsessed as their... |
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Big bite (24 April 06:11) |
| Twentieth-century America from a snack's perspectiveTHIS entertaining and informative book, which traces the burger's evolution from working man's snack during the Depression to symbol of Am... |
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On Israel, Bertelsmann, Tibet, bitter politics (24 April 06:11) |
| SIR ? Your special report on Israel (April 5th) quoted me explaining how the deterrence theory of the cold war would not apply to the polynuclear Middle East that could emerge in the wake of... |
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Mammon, McCain and Obama (24 April 06:11) |
| John McCain looks set to accept public funds and the accompanying shackles LAST year, jokes John McCain, his presidential campaign was in such a pickle that he could only count on the suppor... |
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No surrender (24 April 06:11) |
| The Democratic primary is set to continue for a few more bruising weeks THERE is no spinning away the importance of Hillary Clinton's nine-point victory over Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania... |
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Not very nICE (24 April 06:11) |
| More and more raids, but still no solutionsON APRIL 22nd Felipe Calderon, the president of Mexico, paid his first visit to Dallas, Texas. In any other year it might have been a mundane appea... |
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A pointless extinction (24 April 06:11) |
| The Supreme Court's ruling upholding lethal injections has resolved nothing ACROSS America, those states that still impose the death penalty have been rushing to resume executions following ... |
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Too many babies? (24 April 06:11) |
| The food crisis revives worries about population growthAMID panic over soaring rice prices and worries about whether the Philippines, the world's biggest rice importer, can secure enough sup... |
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Dumped on again (24 April 06:11) |
| Amid political deadlock and economic ruin, will Nauru's luck ever turn? IF COUNTRIES were traded like books, Nauru, one of the world's smallest, would long ago have ended up on the remainder... |
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Green, no queen (24 April 06:11) |
| Kevin Rudd's reformist zeal FOR all the boundless energy he has shown since becoming Australia's prime minister five months ago, Kevin Rudd looked tired on April 20th, as he received a docum... |
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The ghosts of Mexico 1968 (24 April 06:11) |
| A massacre that was hushed up to ensure a ?successful? sporting eventA DEVELOPING country gets the Olympic games as an acknowledgment of its new, exalted status. An authoritarian government,... |
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A screaming start (24 April 06:11) |
| A new UN institution is struggling to prove that it is doing better than its unloved predecessor. Thanks to an obsession with Israel, it isn't, yetTWO years ago, the 60-year-old UN Commissio... |
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Europe's Marxist dilemma (24 April 06:11) |
| It is easier to influence a country before than after it joins the clubGROUCHO MARX once said that he did not care to belong to a club that accepted people like him as members. The European ... |
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