16 August 2001

  • The article that got its editor arrested: Zimbabwe police involved in pillaging.
  • Tentative peace in Macedonia before 400 U.K. troops arrive.
  • IMF believes Bush's tax cuts to be twice as costly as the White House predicts.
  • White House education plan makes schools into businesses and education a matter of measuring profits versus loss.
  • Palm in talks to buy Be, the OS that never was.
  • Even adrift at sea, Web-masters pull all-nighters to finish a re-design.
  • A very strange picture: a field of pork.
  • Anti-abortionist who once posted "hit list" of doctors now has Web-cams outside clinics.
  • Booker Prize list released, including a children's book; Guardian provides the odds for the gamblers.
  • Fading Ad Campaign tracks the signs of old.