What Holds An Arab Leader In Power

Of All The Failed Technologies That Litter The Onward March Of Science - Steam Carriages, Zeppelins, Armoured Trains - None Has Been So Catastrophic To Prosperity As The Last Century's Attempt To Generate Electricity From Nuclear Fission.

We Generally Write Best Of What We Ourselves Have Seen.

Soaring Prices For Crude Oil, Falling Production Surpluses, Wild Speculation In Commodities, A Rush Into The Precious Metals, Turmoil In The Middle East, Assertive Oil Producers: It Is 1973-74 All Over Again, And At Dictation Speed.

Since The Attack On The United States On September 11 2001, And The Us Retaliation In Afghanistan And Iraq, There Must Be Few People Who Have Not Felt A Twinge Of Nostalgia For The Cold War.

Governments Of Rich Countries Spend Some $6bn Of Tax Money A Year On Disaster Relief And Development Aid Overseas, While Each New Earthquake, Famine Or Tidal Wave Can Attract 1,000 Aid Organisations, From The United Nations Children's Fund And Oxfam To The 'jesus Brigades' Of The American South And Other Charitable Adventurers.