Hidden hunger
IN A market in southern Uganda two traders squat behind little piles of sweet potatoes and a sign that says “with extra vitamin A”. A passing shopper complains about the price: 10% more than ordinary sweet potatoes. Yes, say the traders, but they're better, bred with extra vitamin A. The bargaining goes back and forth, but the struggle to improve the crop has already been won. Since 2007, when an
Unholy rows
Unholy rowsHoly places should unite humanity. Too often, they have the opposite effect ACROSS northern India, householders who were braced for a bout of violent sectarian strife are sighing with relief. The people most affected by one of the world's biggest arguments over sacred turf, in the town of Ayodhya, seemed to accept the verdict, even if it was not quite what they wanted. On September 30th
Words not deeds
FEW subjects excite more controversy among Romani activists than terminology. The traditional word “Gypsy” is seen as pejorative by some and inaccurate by others though some Romanies robustly defend its use. Outsiders often use it to mean anyone with a traditional itinerant lifestyle (it retains that meaning in English law). It is now largely out of fashion, especially in bureaucratic circles wher
Romanies: A long road | The Economist
A long roadEurope’s Romanies have a mostly horrible time. But they are thriving in America TOMMY'S International Sports Café, Inc, a makeshift social club on 657 East 189th Street in New York's Bronx, would repay a visit from those Europeans who see their continent's Romanies (also known as Gypsies, see article) only as a lawless and hopeless underclass, in which success means at most building a g
Not entirely free, your honour
Not entirely free, your honourThe legal profession, like the clients it serves, is well on the way to going global—but especially in India, obstacles to its spread remain LAW is supposed to be about universal principles: rules that apply without prejudice to a broad category of human beings, regardless of sex, culture or economic status. So in a world where barriers to the transfer of goods, exper
A well-locked closet
Militancy in Mauritius THEIR crimes were “gross indecency” and “unnatural acts”. Their sentence was 14 years' hard labour: one intended, said the judge, to scare others. He has succeeded. A court in Malawi last week horrified many with its treatment of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, a gay couple engaged to be married. The two men are the latest victims of a crackdown on gay rights in much
The worldwide war on baby girls
The worldwide war on baby girlsTechnology, declining fertility and ancient prejudice are combining to unbalance societies XINRAN XUE, a Chinese writer, describes visiting a peasant family in the Yimeng area of Shandong province. The wife was giving birth. “We had scarcely sat down in the kitchen”, she writes (see article), “when we heard a moan of pain from the bedroom next door…The cries from the
Hitmen old and new
Reuters Yandarbiyev, dead but not without trace ONLY a decade ago the assassins who killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh would have disappeared into oblivion. Now that is much harder, and not merely for the obvious reason that lenses are ubiquitous. Modern cameras capture more than blurred images: they record the precise bone structure of people's faces. Digitised and interpreted by an algorithm, this inform
A time to kill
A time to killThe professional and presumably state-directed killing of a leading Palestinian has been exposed in embarrassing detail. Perhaps such methods have had their day USING subterfuge to entrap and kill adversaries, in locations far from any battlefield, has been a feature of conflict for the past 3,000 years or so—at least since Jael, one of the warrior heroines of ancient Israel, lured t
Saviours or kidnappers?
Saviours or kidnappers?Amid catastrophe in Haiti, a new controversy about adoptions AFP Out of Haiti, but not to the highest bidder IT MUST have seemed like a good idea at the time. The New Life Children's Refuge, a Christian group from Idaho, saw no need to bother with paperwork or official permission when they decided to take 33 Haitian children to the Dominican Republic where they apparently ho
Of governments and geeks
Of governments and geeksIn several countries more official data are being issued in raw form so that anybody can use them. This forces bureaucrats and creative types to interact in new ways Illustration by David Simonds Correction to this article YOU might think that Clay Johnson, a campaigner for transparency, would be pleased to see a ferret, with a deerstalker hat and magnifying glass, pop up o
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