Articles from New Internationalist (August 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A lifetime in muck.	Thekaekara, Mari Marcel	Essay	1629
Action lobby.	Hosking, AJ	Letter to the editor	111
Beam me up.	Farlinger, Shirley	Letter to the editor	85
Beyond oil.	Wall, Derek	Letter to the editor	220
Big bad world.		Cartoon	19
Dignity and the decent facility: sanitary engineers regard a toilet as a health aid. But women paint a very different picture, as Libby Plumb explains.	Plumb, Libby	Essay	1419
Dominica.	Johns, Sebastian	Country overview	1066
Drowning in plastic: living in a toxic world.		Brief article	212
Eau de victory.	Mandela, Nelson	Brief article	241
Embrace disarmament.	Wright, Tim	Letter to the editor	132
For our convenience.		Essay	1134
From this month's guest editor.	Black, Maggie	Brief article	220
Getting fair treatment: Brazil faces new challenge in its fight against Big Pharma.	Lateu, Jo		614
Highlights from Toronto's international hot docs festival.		Book review	1661
Interview with Teofilo Acuna on the costs of confronting Colombia's paramilitaries.	Acuna, Teofilo	Interview	876
Jail babies: children are hidden victims of prison systems across the world.	Lees, Jenny Solen	Essay	537
Mandela's no tourist: true tales of a mixed-up world.			348
Modest proposal.	Kadir-Buxton, Andrew Paul	Letter to the editor	191
No ordinary man.	Wilson, Hilary	Letter to the editor	173
Politics of consumption.	Green, Green	Letter to the editor	123
Promoting revolutions.	Miller, Cathy	Letter to the editor	185
Rights for albinos.		Brief article	253
River bleeds black; Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the majority world.	Noorani, Shehzad		341
Stand up, stand up for toilets ...	Mistiaen, Veronique	Essay	1887
Technofixes: climate solution or corporate scam? Can science save the planet or should we avoid putting our faith in high-tech fixes to deliver us from the ecological mess we've made? Jim Thomas and Paul Fitzgerald push each other's buttons.		Discussion	3017
The drugs don't work: young people use painkillers to escape reality.	Wearn, Rebecca		521
The eighth commandment--lies.	Galeano, Eduardo		898
The language of the car ...	Richardson; Mitchell	Brief article	38
The pen is messier than the sword; Visiting a newspaper office, Maria Golia assesses the worth of the written word in today's Egypt.	Golia, Maria	Essay	742
To sewer or not to sewer.	Satterthwaite, David	Essay	1532
Toilets--the facts.			950
Tortured for 'refusing to kill'.		Brief article	249
Transported.	Tempest, John L	Letter to the editor	143
Unpacking the lingo.	Taylor, Nicholas	Letter to the editor	187
We need to talk about ... toilets: 2008 is the 'International Year of Sanitation'. What will it take, asks Maggie Black, to launch a new sanitary revolution?	Black, Maggie	Essay	2764
What about us?			402
Worldbeaters taking aim at the rich and powerful.		Essay	1123