May 2001's Issue
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Those Who Remain Will Always Remember
Those Who Remain Will Always Remember edited Ann Brewster
- George Fisher
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Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR
Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR by Sharon Beder
- George Fisher
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Mother tongue
For the first time, a Kurdish witness in a Turkish legal hearing has been allowed to hear questions in her own tongue.
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More sustainable
The world’s largest study into sustainable agriculture has been published by Jules Petty of the University of Essex.
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Breakout bid
Officials of the US Department of Agriculture have given the Los Angeles Zoo one year to make its gorilla enclosures safe.
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Peacemakers
This year’s International Women’s Day was marked at the UN with a Millennium Peace Prize for Women.
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Oldspeak
China’s Communist Party chief is expected to have his collected speeches and policies elevated to a status similar to Mao’s.
- Far Eastern Economic Review
- 1 May 2001
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Shrink it or sink it
How the corporate manifesto has been made manifest in the rules of international trade – David Ransom tells the story.
- David Ransom
- 1 May 2001
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Learning to respect the aged
How India is losing its respect for the aged, by Urvashi Butalia.
- Urvashi Butalia
- 1 May 2001
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Anita Khemka
An image from inside an Indian mental hospital by Anita Khemka.
- Anita Khemka
- 1 May 2001
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A world turned upside down
And how to put it the right way up – David Ransom talks to UNCTAD and to Martin Khor of Third World Network.
- David Ransom
- 1 May 2001
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Sleeping through the wake-up call
Has anything happened since the ‘Battle of Seattle’? David Ransom talks to the people he can vote for.
- David Ransom
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