Issue 62
April 2001
Contents
Genetics and Insurance
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The knowledge that genetics can provide about our future health could play havoc with the life insurance industry. How can we balance the competing demands of consumers' right to privacy and the insurers' need to assess risks?
Queen of romance
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Neither great, nor original - Barbara Cartland, still the queen of romantic fiction
Theatre of pain
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Ten days ago I wanted a natural birth, now I want a general anaesthetic
For marriage
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The 1960s generation doesn't like it, but marriage is still the best family structure. Public policy needs to catch up
Anglosphere illusions
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As Suez proved, the idea of a cultural affinity between Britain and the US is meaningless. Britain should be America's critic
Hollywood is right
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Hand on heart, they were liberals. From Bogart to Scorsese, the actors and directors who have made American movies great belonged chiefly to the left. Didn't they? Cinema is the ultimate right-wing art form
Not the e-conomy
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The main impact of the new information technology is to boost demand and employment in "high touch" service sectors. But the big challenges lie in areas which economy barely affects
Return flight
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After a decade of asset stripping and capital flight the Russians are finally investing in their own economy
Heavy petting
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The philosopher of animal liberation considers a remarkable book which chronicles the history of bestiality
All passion spent
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The former revolutionary and Mitterrand adviser has no time for utopian nonsense about a post-national Europe
The art of anticipation
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Art historians are wrong to judge Adolph Menzel under the long shadow of non-existent progress
More permanent than snow
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The failure of post-war architecture to create urban communities haunts Europe
Goodbye Marie Claire
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Two centuries of women's magazine history is coming to an end
Dylan at sixty
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Bob is 60 in May, and he's just as good as Keats. So why didn't the song-and-dance man become a saint of high culture long ago?