Man's ascent in epidemic leaps
Plague, Pox and Pestilence - Epidemics and History
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Cambodians find fault with French assault
Some 250 Cambodian students demonstrated and burned tyres last week in protest at the use of French as the teaching medium at Phnom Penh's Institute of Technology. Student leaders said the protest...
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Playing the trading game
NEW YORK financial markets have been open for just ten minutes, but already heads are bent over monitors where colour-coded financial information from Reuters and Dow Jones is continuously updated at...
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Oxford may lose its Liberty
The future of Oxford University's business venture with Liberty was in the balance this week following the upmarket retailers' announcement that all its branches outside London are to close to stem...
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Found: city, Mexico area
Following up on local talk, Alan G. Robinson discovered a lost city that may transform our view of a great ancient civilisation. Andrew Robinson reports The dream of any archaeologist must be to...
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Outlook: clear
Having proclaimed liberal democracy triumphant and history over, Francis Fukuyama now finds that family breakdown is down to the pill and women going out to work. Harriet Swain talks to a...
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Global positions on cartography
Framework for the World
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Art of turning metal into merit
The Art of Burma
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No need for a depression
The Return of Depression Economics
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Land of the rising sophisticates
The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy
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Assault on turbulence
Scientists at the Isaac Newton Institute are spending six months trying to solve what Einstein dubbed the ultimate scientific problem - turbulence. Julian Hunt reports. If you like to puzzle about...
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Poor relations fight for title
GERMAN fachhochschulen want the right to market themselves internationally as "universities" because, they claim, people outside Germany do not understand that they are fully-fledged higher education...
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East/West enigmas
Management Worldwide - Asian Management Systems
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Throng numbers
International Journal of Population Geography (four times a year)
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On the scent of Fragrant Harbour's pungent history
At midnight on June 30, 155 years of British rule in Hong Kong cease. The handover to China raises complex questions for the colony's institutions, economy and citizens, with Hong Kong's thriving...