International: The Madagascar model
Fly Title: International Rubric: Conflicts over natural resources will grow Location: Main image: fake_0.jpg In the world's earliest written legal code, dating from 1790BC, Hammurabi, the king of...
View ArticleFeeding the world: If words were food, nobody would go hungry
Issue: Dealing with America's fiscal hole Fly Title: Feeding the world Rubric: Investment in agriculture is soaring. So, worryingly, is distrust of markets and trade Location: rome Main image: AP...
View ArticleMonitor: The many voices of the web
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Bombs away Fly Title: Monitor Rubric: The internet: New combinations of human and computer translation are making web pages available in foreign languages...
View ArticlePolitics in Madagascar: The coup that wasn't
THE beautiful Indian Ocean island of Madagascar has had its fair share of violent political turmoil. Since gaining independence from its French colonial masters in 1960, five successive presidents have...
View ArticleMadagascar's politics: A coup-maker turns president
TWO years after a military coup in Madagascar, condemned by the world, that brought André Rajoelina to power, the boyish former disc jockey has been confirmed as the Indian-Ocean island's president by...
View ArticleGuitars and the law: Guns N’ Rosewood
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Ten years on Fly Title: Guitars and the law Rubric: Confusing environmental rules harm more than guitarmakers Location: NASHVILLE Main image:...
View ArticleLobbying and ideology: A Gibson without a case (of guilt)
AMAZON'S mooted resignation to allowing the state of California to charge sales tax on internet purchases from companies with subsidiaries in the state, if it works out, would come as a relief to me....
View ArticleThe year ahead in southern Africa: Parties, politics and potential collapse
THE African National Congress (ANC), the continent's oldest liberation movement, kicks off the new year with celebrations on January 8th to mark the centenary of its foundation in Bloemfontein, now...
View ArticleSpider silk at the V&A: A tangled (and exquisite) web they wove
IN THESE days of fast (and often disposable) fashion, the idea of taking eight years to manufacture two unwearable garments seems outlandish. Yet this is what Simon Peers, a textile designer, and...
View ArticleThe settlement of Madagascar: Thirty lost souls
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: This way, sir Fly Title: The settlement of Madagascar Rubric: How Africa’s largest island was colonised by Asians Main image: Journey’s end Journey’s end...
View ArticleAfrican democracy: A glass half-full
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: France in denial Fly Title: African democracy Rubric: Representative government is still on the march in Africa, despite recent hiccups Location: FREETOWN...
View ArticleCyborg insects: Roaches to the rescue
TINY robot insects have long been touted as the next big thing in search and rescue. They can rummage through the rubble of a collapsed building, ferret out survivors and relay information about them...
View ArticleMiddle East and Africa: Island in the shade
UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: Middle East and Africa Rubric: Madagascar’s political stalemate Main image: Keep your enthusiasm under your hat Keep your enthusiasm under your hat...
View ArticleMalagasy politics: Who will take over?
MALAGASIES have waited four years for a chance to vote for a government. In February 2009, Andry Rajoelina overthrew Madagascar’s president, Marc Ravalomanana, in an army-backed coup. Since then Mr...
View ArticleConservation: Slow demise
DEMAND for wildlife parts is pushing many species to the brink of extinction. In China, where a rising middle class flaunts wealth by displaying ivory at home, traders call elephant tusks "white...
View ArticleMadagascar’s election: They just won’t give up
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Can Iran be stopped? Fly Title: Madagascar’s election Rubric: The old guard seems determined to ruin the country’s political prospects IT WAS all looking...
View ArticleMalagasy biodiversity: Frogs, geckos, chameleons and more
MADAGASCAR is perhaps best known to most people as the setting of the eponymous animated film. But the isolated island in the Indian Ocean, near the southern tip of Africa, has long been famous among...
View ArticleHow infants think: Learning from lemurs
TO LEARN to speak an infant must tune in to the sounds of their native tongue and work out how they relate to meaning. By the tender age of three months babies are already building categories to make...
View ArticleElections in Madagascar: Better than nothing?
VEHICLES brandishing loudspeakers blast out propaganda in the streets of Antananarivo, Madagascar’s capital. Candidates’ faces are plastered across buildings, buses and T-shirts given out at rallies....
View ArticleMadagascar's election: A nervous wait
SHADED from the blazing midday sun, Justin Mbehosoa Sambon enjoys a brief respite from hacking away at a gravel formation, whose fragments he sells to building contractors putting up houses in the...
View ArticleMadagascar’s presidential election: A nervous wait
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Europe’s Tea Parties Fly Title: Madagascar’s presidential election Rubric: On Africa’s biggest island, people are holding their breath after voting...
View ArticleThe future of Wikipedia: WikiPeaks?
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: What’s gone wrong with democracy Fly Title: The future of Wikipedia Rubric: The popular online encyclopedia must work out what is next Location: SAN...
View ArticleAlison Jolly
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: What’s gone wrong with democracy Rubric: Alison Jolly, primatologist, died on February 6th, aged 76 Main image: 20140301_OBP001_0.jpg WHEN the big male...
View ArticleAn 18th-century outrage: Lèse humanité
Print section UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Star Wars, Disney and myth-making Fly Title: An 18th-century outrage Main image: 20151219_TRP001_2.jpg BY...
View ArticleDaily chart: The return of the plague
Main image: BUBONIC plague brought terror to medieval Europe. Over a third of its population perished from the “Black Death” in the 14th century, hastening the end of the feudal system. As a...
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