Issue 94
January 2004
Contents
Geoscience on parade
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
Find out what happened when more than 11,000 earth scientists gathered in Nice
Simplicity and the origin of life
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
How did life emerge from non-life? It seems to be thanks to complexity emerging, via "phase transition," from simple systems.
Roman Abramovich
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
He seized Russian oil, governed a distant province and bought Chelsea FC. And he remains a friend of the Kremlin. How?
A Christmas gift
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
Prospect's prisoner celebrates a parody of a traditional Christmas, sleeping rough in a London park
Dieting for Jesus
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
We should worry less about America's Christian conservatives. They are more American than they are Christian or conservative.
Jesters on the box
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
Television has been central to the lives of two generations, yet TV criticism barely exists.
French favours
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
A decade of corruption trials has chastened the French elite. But few heads have rolled and little has changed. What are the roots of French corruption?
Dr Kelly's religion
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
I was raised in the Baha'i faith, to which David Kelly was a convert
About a face
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
Moral revulsion at the idea of face transplants is misplaced. The science is important
What if?
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
How higher education could look in 2020 if Blair's top-up fees battle is lost
Hearts and minds
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
A ten-point plan for solving the difficulties of the occupation in Iraq
A welfare consensus?
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
Despite clashes over public services, there is common ground between left and right on how to reform the welfare state
Match of the century
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
The opening of Soviet archives has revealed the lunacies that underpinned the greatest contest in cold war chess.
Art after Adorno
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
Theodor Adorno's musical criticism has a vital message for current art. The true avant garde is about reshaping tradition
Imagining horror
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
Why does a novel about Hitler fail, while one about Rwanda triumphs? It's truth to fiction, rather than history, that counts
Vanilla bright like Eminem
20th January 2004 — Issue 94
Don is just about to experience the happiest moment of his life