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				 May  2nd 2001
				 
				
				
				
				Bush's  call to arms 
				George  Bush is determined to build a missile shield while cutting America's  
nuclear stockpile. That will turn traditional thinking on disarmament  on its 
head   
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				Murdoch's  big birds 
				After  years of trying, Rupert Murdoch could be about to plug the gap in  his 
global satellite-television network. Making money from this ambitious  plan, 
however, could prove even harder 
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				Mayhem  in May 
				After  recent mass demonstrations in Quebec, anti-globalisation protestors  
were out in force again for May Day. The movement may be incoherent,  and 
often clownish, but it is increasingly influential. And globalisation's  best 
critics, if not the demonstrators, are raising important issues   
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				Gerhard  Schr"der's EU vision 
				Germany's  chancellor is putting his weight behind proposals for sweeping 
new  changes to the European Union. The continent is in for another intense  
debate about the EU's constitution, and its future   
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				Nuclear's  comeback 
				Claiming  that an energy crisis is looming, the United States is about to do  
a U-turn on nuclear energy. Fifteen years after Chernobyl, worries  about 
global warming and improved technology are also combining to  revive interest 
in the once-vilified nuclear industry in other countries   
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software, details the growing trend towards software  leased via the 
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