Newsweek International articles from September 2007

Newsweek International archives from September 2007

Weep for Pakistan?(Letter to the editor)
September 3, 2007... Readers of Fareed Zakaria's June 25 piece on Pakistan responded passionately. One blamed "ambitious generals for derailing democracy" and "powerful feudals and clergy" for Pakistan's woes. Said another, "The Army rigged the '02 elections......

The Poor Self-Image; A film festival challenges old Western stereotypes.(Cinemalaya)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Jessica Zafra Two white Europeans are taking photos of human scavengers in a Manila garbage dump. It's an image that has come to define the Philippines, indeed many poor nations, in the eyes of the rich. But then, as the visitors...

Folding the Yen; It seemed so easy: use cheap yen to make big bucks outside Japan. Some gambled it all, and now the bets are unraveling.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Akiko Kashiwagi The subprime debacle has exposed many dicey deals in recent weeks. One of the most worrisome is the yen carry trade, a perfectly legal, highly profitable and hugely popular trick that involves borrowing cheap yen at...

Shaking Up the Continent; Nicolas Sarkozy's showboating has made him very popular at home. But abroad, it's a different story.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Adam B. Kushner (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris and Nick Hayes in London) There is no doubting Nicolas Sarkozy's energy. In his first 100 days, the French president has palled around with George W. Bush in Maine (mending the...

Nuclear Brinkmanship; India's finally on the verge of great-power status--unless its old-guard politicians bring it down.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Sumit Ganguly In politics as in life, it sometimes seems no good deed goes unpunished. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has just put the finishing touches on a pact with Washington that would ratify Delhi's nuclear-weapons...

The End of Secularism.(Essay)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Soner Cagaptay This fall, I plan to teach a course on Turkish secularism at Georgetown University. The class was originally listed as current politics. But given the direction in which Turkey's headed, it could well become a...

Getting a Good Grip; New advances in prosthetics enable amputee soldiers to use brain signals to move their artificial limbs.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Ginanne Brownell (With Abby Dalton in Washington) Sgt. Juan Arredondo's life forever changed on Feb. 28, 2005, when, on a routine patrol between Ramadi and Fallujah, an IED exploded through the door of his vehicle. Arredondo's left...

An Army in Retreat; Abdullah Gul's ascent was expected to trigger military unrest. So why is Turkey so quiet?
September 3, 2007... Byline: Owen Matthews (With Sami Kohen in Istanbul) You'd think turkey should be in turmoil right now. When Abdullah Gul, once a passionate Islamist, was nominated for the presidency back in April, millions of concerned citizens took to the...

Then They All Fall Down; Spreading things like U.S. mortgage risk around the world was supposed to make us safer. So why are markets getting rockier?
September 3, 2007... Byline: George Wehrfritz (With Rana Foroohar and Barrett Sheridan in New York, B.J. Lee in Seoul, Sonia Kolesnikovjessop in Singapore and Akiko Kashiwagi in Tokyo) What does the price of a starter home in Stockton, California, have to do...

The Shock of the New; The boom in Prague has sparked controversy over the remaking of one of Europe's most charming cities.(City overview)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Katka Krosnar Prague's world-famous sky-line--its Gothic cathedrals, Romanesque rotundas, Renaissance palaces--has survived centuries of war, invasion and communism. But like cities throughout Eastern and Central Europe, Prague is...

Mental Breakdown; Russian authorities are sending critics to psychiatric wards. Speaking out now seems evidence of madness.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Owen Matthews and Andanna Nemtsova Soviet doctors once joked that the best way to get thrown into a psychiatric hospital was to send a telegram to Leonid Brezhnev that was critical of the Russian leader. Now that old gallows humor...

A Cultural Revolution; China's sizzling art market has a new darling: patriotic works that mark the founding of the People's Republic.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Revolution is sweeping China's art world. In recent months, paintings extolling the communist victory of 1949 have emerged as the hottest genre in one of the world's most exuberant art scenes. With an economy...

A Humanitarian-in-Chief.(French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner )(Interview)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Bernard Kouchner When French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner paid a three-day visit to Iraq last week, it seemed a potent symbol of the shift in France's policies since President Nicolas Sarkozy took office in May. The previous...

Deadly Persian Provocations.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Reuel Marc Gerecht Two weeks ago, the Bush administration announced it may designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization--the first time a foreign military body has received that label. Days later, a top U.S....

Shoe on the Other Foot.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Ruchir Sharma When asked why evil exists in the world, the Indian saint Ramakrishna answered: "To thicken the plot." Well, volatility plays a similar role in the financial marketplace. Major trends tend to last for years and often...

Travel: Roam the Seven Seas.(Brief article)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Jaime Cunningham For anyone fantasizing about buying real estate but unable to settle on a location, there's an ideal new solution: invest in a condo on a luxury cruise ship. Cabin owners can not only list exclusive ports of call...

4 Hours In Leipzig.(Leipzig, Germany)(Brief article)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Tracy McNicoll Once East Germany's hotbed of culture and resistance, this eclectic and energetic city is worth a look, however brief. LISTEN to the 800-year-old Thomanerchor boys' choir in the St. Thomas Lutheran Church , where...

Al Gallopapa Castellina In Chianti, Italy.(Restaurant review)(Brief article)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Susan H. Greenberg Located inside the medieval stone tunnel built to protect this charming Tuscan town, Al Gallopapa is a rustic but serious eatery serving up confident nouvelle Italian cuisine in an atmospheric setting. ...

Delicacies: Over the Moon.(mooncakes)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Mooncakes, sweet treats eaten in Asia to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, have traditionally consisted of a thick, pasty filling containing yolks from salted duck eggs (symbolizing the full moon) in a...

The Maximalist.(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
September 3, 2007... The iconic Victorinox Swiss Army knife has been given a major bling-over. Made of pure platinum and inset with 430 diamonds, the gussied-up version features ornate diamond engraving on each of the seven tools except the tweezers, ensuring that...

Style: Seeing Blue.(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Kendyl Salcito Before the Taliban, the Soviet intervention and even the poppy, Afghanistan had lapis lazuli. And now everyone else wants a piece of it, too. The stone once relegated to casual jewelry has resurfaced in luxury lines...

Perspectives.
September 3, 2007... "We had a half-hearted approach from the get-go." Andrew Alderson, banker and author of a book describing his time as a British Army officer in southern Iraq "We can't actually recall anything that you wouldn't see in most pubs across...

Periscope.
September 3, 2007... Byline: John D. Sparks (John Sparks Joseph Contreras and Phil Gunson Fasih Ahmed) Bright Lights, Big Ambitions What do Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israeli Prime Minster Ehud Olmert have in common? Both are members of a...

Follow the Eyes.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Benjamin Sutherland It's sometimes known as the trigger, the kicker or the launching pad: the part of a package a shopper is looking at when he decides to flip the cereal box to read the back. The gesture is a strong indication...

Powerful As Dung.(Brief article)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Kendyl Salcito Israel just bought into one of the crappiest ideas around, and it's paying off. A few years ago, amid a nationwide effort to clean up manure, which emits methane (a greenhouse gas), the Minister of Environment told...

Mail Call: A New Iran Emerges.(Letter to the editor)
September 10, 2007... Michael Hirsh's report from Iran drew unqualified praise from readers. "It hit the mark," wrote one. Said another, "No one can deny Iran its homegrown democratic modernization and cultural reformation." An Inside View of Iran Michael...

Bridging the Gap; After a stormy break with the U.S., European leaders are forging a new Atlantic alliance.(Cover story)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Stryker McGuire (With Lorna Shaddick and Nick Hayes in London, Owen Matthews in Moscow, Christopher Dickey and Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Mike Elkin in Madrid and Katka Krosnar in Prague) Forty-four years ago, a few months before his...

The European Disunion; An alliance with America is impossible until Europe comes together.(Cover story)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Denis MacShane (MacShane is a Labour M.P. and was deputy foreign secretary in the Blair government.) Does the welcome decline of European anti-Americanism mean Europe and the United States are converging? Not yet--and not for the...

Bottom to Best; Outsourcing operations now look for quality, not just cheap labor. The race has changed. And guess who's leading the pack?
September 10, 2007... Byline: William Underhill and Jason Overdorf (With Katka Krosnar in the Czech Republic) The infamous "race to the bottom" may not be over. But increasingly, service industries are moving operations not to nations at the bottom--which is to...

Asia's Dangerous Divide; Beijing and Washington are building new alliances throughout the continent.(Malabar 07)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Christian Caryl (With Jonathan Adams and Wang Zhenru in Beijing, Sarah Schafer in Bangkok and Stephen Glain in Washington) Later this month, the navies of the United States, India, Japan, Australia and Singapore will get together in...

Bigger Than Bollywood; Meet the man who is changing India's film industry--and gunning for Hollywood, USA.(Ronnie Screwvala)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Jason Overdorf Ronnie Screwvala is the front runner in the race to become Bollywood's Jack Warner--the man who began the transformation of parochial U.S. cinema into its modern global form. Yet Screwvala is rarely picked out of a...

Surprised, General? Musharraf approved Pakistan's new art museum, but not its antimilitary edge.(Pervez Musharraf, National Art Gallery)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Ron Moreau To many people, the mere mention of Pakistan conjures up visions of bemedaled generals, gun-toting militants and perhaps the mountaintop hiding place of Osama bin Laden. But the country's spectacular new contemporary...

Go Ahead, Make Her Day.(Jodie Foster on 'The Brave One')(Interview)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Devin Gordon Over the course of her new film, "The Brave One," Jodie Foster kills eight people. The two-time Oscar winner plays a public-radio host named Erica Bain who survives a brutal attack in New York's Central Park during...

A New Job for Ban Ki-moon.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Morton Abramowitz and Jonathan Kolieb (Abramowitz is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and a board member of the International Rescue Committee. Kolieb is a research associate at the Century Foundation.) Since the war in...

Beware the Weak Dollar.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Jeffrey E. Garten (Garten is the Juan Trippe Professor of International Trade and Finance at the Yale School of Management.) So far, serious currency turmoil hasn't been a part of the subprime-induced credit crunch. Nevertheless,...

Island Spice.(Zanzibar island, Tanzania)(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Ginanne Brownell and Silvia Spring Known as spice island, Zanzibar is a beguiling mix of Arabic, African and Indian cultures. From the frenzied maze of Stone Town's tiny streets to the breezy beaches and isolated coral reefs, this...

4 Hours in Seattle.(places to visit in Seattle, Washington)(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: David Bardeen Long a nature-lover's paradise, this gateway to America's Pacific Northwest also features world-class museums, cultural institutions, shopping and cuisine. Stroll through the Pike Place Market, celebrating its...

Restaurant WH, Aarhus, Denmark.(Restaurant review)(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Charlie Ferro Situated in a vast Zen-inspired Japanese garden, this eatery (open Wednesday to Saturday) features a thatched roof and neo-minimalist pagoda theme. But don't let the Japanese influences fool you: all dishes are...

Awesome Andalucia.(beachfront villa in Spain)(Photograph)
September 10, 2007... This five-bedroom beachfront Mediterranean villa in Estepona, Spain, boasts a wine cellar, a bar and a professional disco system. Part of a golf community, the home also has a swimming pool and tropical gardens ([euro]17 million;...

Half Breeds.(shoes)(Buyers guide)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Kendyl Salcito Chanel calls them "short," gucci calls them booties. Jimmy Choo labels them shoes, and Manolo Blahnik, naturally, gives them complex and arty names like Kandos (an Australian town) and Kokkani (an Indian dialect)....

Clean Living.(Design to Improve Life awards' winners)(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Charlene Dy and Christina Gillham Last week the prestigious European design organization Index held its annual Design to Improve Life awards in Copenhagen (indexaward.dk ). Among the do-good winners: the lightweight, durable $100 XO...

Perspectives.(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... "This takes the Taliban to a different level of recognition." Afghanistan analyst Barnett Rubin, arguing that the Taliban, which extracted concessions from Seoul in return for the release of South Korean hostages last week, has gained some...

Periscope.(news briefs)(Column)
September 10, 2007... Byline: TONY DOKOUPIL (Owen Matthews KIM GURNEY JOE COCHRANE Jeneen Interlandi) Getting Bombed Its namesake may be elusive, but the "bin Laden shot"-- a throat-scorching blend of Pernod and Tabasco sauce--is easy enough to find at a...

Death of the Reel.(digital technology in movie production)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Nick Hayes Since the turn of the century, digital technology has conquered the world. Sales of DVDs far outstrip those of videotapes, and digital cameras are favored by consumers and professionals alike. But digital still has its...

Virtual Epidemic.(virtual disease outbreak in online games)(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Jessica Bennett We all know the warnings: addiction, isolation, a waste of time. But what if online games like World of Warcraft could be a new weapon for fighting infectious diseases? That's what epidemiologists at Tufts...

Mail Call: Quality vs. Cost?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
September 17, 2007... Readers of our July 16 report on Chinese goods had mixed reactions. One said, "Your story's an eye-opener." Another wrote, "China makes high-quality products, too. You get what you pay for." A Debt Honored in Indonesia Your July 23...

The Next Battlefront.(World Affairs)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Scott Johnson; With Jason Mclure In Dire Dawa, And Silvia Spring And Alexandra Polier In Nairobi The United States is planning a new strategic command to take the global War on Terror to the Horn of Africa. America is quietly...

Europe Goes To Club Med.(World Affairs)
September 17, 2007... Byline: William Underhill As fears over migration, energy and terror grow, the European Union wants closer friends in sunny places. With more mountains than beaches -- the coastline is only 40 kilometers long -- Slovenia makes an...

Legal in Unlikely Places.(Society)
September 17, 2007... Now mature in the west, gay power is growing worldwide, even in the land of machismo. After eight years together, Gilberto Aranda and Mauricio List walked into a wedding chapel in the Mexico City neighborhood of Coyoacan last April and...

Interview: 'The Sky Didn't Fall In'.(Society)(Interview)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop In any country, bigots must be fought with well-reasoned arguments and reliable research, says Sir Ian McKellen. Sir Ian McKellen has been a vocal gay-rights advocate since making his own homosexuality...

Tribal Record.(Society)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Susan H. Greenberg A rare glimpse inside the rituals of Africa's traditional societies From space, the giant fissure known as Africa's Great Rift Valley is one of the most prominent geological features on earth. Separated by...

Skidding Into A Deal.(World Affairs)
September 17, 2007... Aid could nip the North Korean nuclear threat. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il once kidnapped a South Korean director and his wife when the local talent couldn't re-create Kim's grand visions on the silver screen. Is the Great Director now...

The Comeback Artist.(World Affairs)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Ron Moreau; With Zahid Hussain In Islamabad Nawaz Sharif used to be the most reviled man in Pakistan. Now he may become an unlikely hero. He bravely fought terrorists, who twice tried to kill him. He had a strong authoritarian...

Luciano Pavarotti, 1935-2007.(Appreciation)(Obituary)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Andrew Moravcsik The fat man sings no more. The great bearded figure with outstretched arms, holding a flag-size silk handkerchief at the front of the stadium. The global superstar whose rendition of "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's...

Inventing Himself.(The Last Word; Craig Venter)(Interview)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Fred Guterl In what may be remembered as the age of biology, Craig Venter is the field's pre-eminent innovator. He startled the world by making rapid strides towards sequencing the DNA of a human genome at Celera Genomics. (His...

Picturing Iraq Without Maliki.(World View)(Nuri al-Maliki)
September 17, 2007... Next week's report to Congress by Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, the top American leaders in Iraq, will probably be anticlimactic. Among the many things we already know, it will tell us that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki --...

Leaving The Game.(Turning Points)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Imran Khan Imran Khan on why he gave up cricket for the rough-and-tumble world of Pakistani politics. The first turning point in my life came at the age of 9, when, in 1961, I saw my cousin score a century (100 runs) against...

Playing Dress Up.(Arts)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Dana Thomas Celebrities are turning to pros to help them look fab. For luxury brands, those stylists' choices bring priceless exposure. Rachel Zoe blew into the Jimmy Choo Oscar suite at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel on a...

Putting Out The Trash.(Business)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Daniel Gross; With Reporting By Eleazar David Melendez America's junk exports are enriching the developing world and helping the planet too. Kramer Metals, a 50-employee third-generation scrap-metal operation in Los Angeles, is...

Why Markets Are So Shaky.(Global Investor)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs, the famed Wall Street strategist, is now a hedgefund manager at Traxis Partners. Since mid-July, equity and fixed-income markets across the world have endured sickening declines and startling volatility. Major...

Warm And Fuzzy.(The Good Life)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Kendyl Salcito When Coco Chanel decided to branch out from selling hats in her Paris boutique, she turned straight to sweaters. They're versatile and comfortable, and women can't seem to have too many. Since then, knits have become...

Four Hours In--Macau.(The Good Life)(Brief article)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Lauren Mack The former Portuguese enclave may be small, but it's packed with history, beaches, fantastic food and a burgeoning gambling scene that may someday rival Las Vegas. Don't miss out. Wander through the cobblestone...

The Maximalist.(The Good Life)(Locus Technologies Inc. introduces Locus Plethore)(Brief article)
September 17, 2007... Made entirely of carbon fiber, Canada's new Locus Plethore -- also known as the Quebec Bomb -- features a rip-roaring 8.2-liter V-8 engine but no subframe, making the chassis exceptionally rigid. This baby will set you back a cool $314,000, but...

Down The Drain.(The Good Life)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Anyone can jazz up a bathroom with fancy tiles or a gleaming curvy faucet. But some high-end companies have come up with a way to add sparkle and luxury appeal even to waste water: by creating dazzling plugs...

Luxury Can't Be Taught In Class.(The Good Life)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Nick Foulkes The dawning of the new academic year reminds me of my distrust of vocational education. Of course, there are exceptions: medicine, say, or the piloting of large aircraft. However, I believe that the line should be...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)
September 17, 2007... "With a name this complicated, you lose time." Computer programmer Temutchin del Espiritu Santo Rojas Fernandez, supporting Venezuela's initiative to ban complex and foreign names "They presumably were, as is the nature of their show,...

Influence The New Bush Politics Of Aid.(Periscope)(George W. Bush)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Roya Wolverson Tracy McNicoll Vibhuti Patel Kurt Soller Karen Springen Roya Wolverson Karen Springen Since 9/11, Democrats and Republicans have increasingly viewed foreign aid as a "soft power" tool that can improve America's...

Era Of The Super Cruncher.(Society)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Jerry Adler Intuition is losing ground to data mining, a new book claims. If the editors of a magazine -- NEWSWEEK, for instance -- want to know what interests their readers, their resources are limited. They can count cover...

Learning Game.(The Technologist)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Akiko Kashiwagi If you see someone on the Tokyo subway fiddling with a Nintendo DS handheld, chances are he's not just playing videogames, but engaged in self-improvement. In recent months millions of Japanese have been using their...

Water World.(The Technologist; CLIMATE)(Brief article)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Nick Hayes The forecast just seems to get gloomier. Climate change may dramatically increase the risk of flooding across the globe, even far from shorelines, say scientists in the journal Nature. The reason: plants won't soak up as...

Mail Call: What Putin Wants.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(Letters)
September 24, 2007... Our July 23 story on the dictatorship in Russia drew varied responses from readers. One wrote, "Like all Russian leaders, Vladimir Putin seeks absolute power." Another said, "He wants respect for Russia." The Rise of a Russian Dictator ...

The Caribbean Hold 'Em.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(Business)
September 24, 2007... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat An unlikely trade dispute between the U.S. and Antigua over online gaming has turned into a David-and-Goliath battle, proving small nations can wield large digital sticks. Antigua is better known for sandy...

The Muck Is Coming.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(Environment)(algal blooms in China's lakes and rivers)
September 24, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Adams; With Wang Zhenru in Beijing Something is out of whack in China's lakes and rivers. Algae blooms are making fresh water undrinkable. Zhang Zhengxiang jabs his finger angrily over the water, which shimmers a...

The Belgian Breakup.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(World Affairs)(split of Belgium's Flemings and Walloons)
September 24, 2007... Byline: Tracy McNicoll The European Union was meant to bring Europe together. In Belgium, it is helping drive things apart. Maybe only Magritte could explain the Belgian political scene. The tiny country that lends its capital to...

Brazil Cries 'Enough!'.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(Business)(political corruption)
September 24, 2007... Byline: Mac Margolis Against all odds, the country that beat hyperinflation targets another old scourge: official corruption. Like most Latin Americans, Brazilians have never thought of their politicians as saints. "Rouba mas faz," or...

On The Circuit.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(Arts)(festivals)
September 24, 2007... Byline: William Underhill; With Patrick Falby and Amber Haq Everyone loves a festival -- especially the host towns, which stand to prosper. Erotic cinema fans, rejoice. High in the mountains of southern France, the sleepy town of...

The Fragile Democracy.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(Commentary)(Mexico)
September 24, 2007... At long last Mexico has cobbled together tax and electoral reforms -- but not the ones the country needed. Indeed the reforms passed by Congress last week might have been worse than none at all, and will likely make it more difficult to improve...

How To Serve the Poor?(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(Business)(Interview)
September 24, 2007... Byline: Barrett Sheridan A new report on corruption and the World Bank depicts an organization still struggling to find itself. In a world of cheap credit and double-digit growth in China and India, the role of the World Bank had been...

The Long March.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(Art)(The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army exhibit)
September 24, 2007... Byline: Ginanne Brownell China's terra-cotta warriors invade London. It's no easy feat to move an army. getting the armored transport, resources, munitions and soldiers ready for invasion is a spectacular achievement of logistics,...

With Friends Like George.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(World Affairs)(Japanese ties with the United States; George W. Bush)
September 24, 2007... Byline: Christian Caryl; With Akiko Kashiwagi in Tokyo and Adam B. Kushner in New York Japan's Shinzo Abe has become the latest global leader to be felled by his ties to the U.S. He started his term in office offering a fresh new start...

The Doomsday Spray.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(Environment)(dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane use)
September 24, 2007... Byline: Scott Johnson To fight malaria, African nations are turning to DDT. Fifty years ago Africa had a coherent strategy to fight malaria. It involved spraying large amounts of the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT,...

What They Are Missing.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(Commentary)(international intervention against Kurdistan Workers' Party )
September 24, 2007... Byline: Peter Galbraith; Galbraith is a former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, and has advised Iraq's Kurds. Qandil Mountain is an unusual trouble spot. straddling the Iran-Iraq border in the Kurdish regions of both countries, it is...

A Legal Fight For Freedom.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(The Last Word)(Aitzaz Ahsan)(Interview)
September 24, 2007... Byline: Aitzaz Ahsan Pakistani lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan, 62, scored what he calls "the greatest victory of my life" when he successfully defended the Supreme Court's Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and won his reinstatement in July...

The Green-Car Domino Effect.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(Technology)(companies that manufacture parts for hybrid vehicles in the upsurge)
September 24, 2007... When it comes to hybrids, the heavyweight tussle between American and Japanese automakers appears to be a hopeless mismatch. Toyota introduced its gas-electric hybrids in 1997 (when regular was $1.18 per gallon), and in June announced its 1...