Articles from SciTech Book News (December 1, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
'I knew too much'.		Chronology	1364
A visit to my hometown.	Oguine, Ike		972
Action against corruption.			841
All fired up.			365
Anatomy of a scam: John Githongo, Kenya's exiled anti-corruption chief, speaks to Vanessa Baird.	Baird, Vanessa	Interview	865
Appalled.	Bayfield, Chas	Letter to the editor	430
Arms, farts and bribe fairies: activist comedian Mark Thomas is on the warpath.	Thomas, Mark		1127
Big bad world.		Cartoon	5
Big mouths.	Hall, Ed	Brief article	248
Bordering on ridiculous.		Brief article	151
Can the rot be stopped? High rhetoric, low deeds. Vanessa Baird examines the murky world of corruption.	Baird, Vanessa		2925
Container.	Lewis, Malcolm	Movie review	86
Corruption around the world: due to the hidden nature of corruption and the paucity of criminal convictions, scientific evidence is difficult to come by. Much of the information on these pages comes from surveys of people's opinion, experience and perceptions of corruption.		Statistical table	1057
Corruption busters: there are no quick fixes, no magic cleaners to get rid of corruption. But the courageous stand of both groups and individuals shows that corruption is not insurmountable.		Organization overview	1572
Corruption's big funder--or how to 'lose' $100 billion without really trying.			626
Corruption.	Baird, Vanessa		282
Costing climate change: George Monbiot resists the urge to do battle in a fog of meaningless statistics.	Monbiot, George		1743
Esma's Secret.	Lewis, Malcolm	Movie review	159
I was a city boy, a soft Asian: novelist MG Vassanji describes growing up with graft in Tanzania.	Vassanji, M.G.		1681
Interview with Vandana Gopikumar about tackling mental disability on the streets of an Indian city.	Namasivayam, Dheepthi	Interview	841
Killersting: the World Bank has vowed to tackle corruption and fight for transparency in the development programmes it funds. In light of this Sandhya Srinivasan takes a close look at one of its pet programmes in India.	Srinivasan, Sandhya		1126
Lunatic beetroot: AIDS activists demand that health minister be fired.	Burnett, Patrick		510
Migration symptoms.	Owers, Don	Letter to the editor	275
More scary than terrorism? A word of warning from Anna Winterbottom.	Winterbottom, Anna		708
Mozambique.	Ayisi, Ruth Ansah	Country overview	1294
Musharraf's hidden war: stubborn Baloch resistance sparked by Pakistani assassination.	Mustikhan, Ahmar		429
Oil from gold.	Wood, Franklin J.	Letter to the editor	176
Parkicide: Colombian wilderness sacrificed to spraying programme.	Moloney, Anastasia		454
Plague Songs.	Gray, Louise; Lewis, Malcolm; Whittaker, Peter; Godrej, Dinyar	Sound recording review	225
Private purpose.	McConnachie, Alistair	Letter to the editor	204
Queer Noises: From the Closet to the Charts 1961-1978.	Gray, Louise; Lewis, Malcolm; Whittaker, Peter; Godrej, Dinyar	Sound recording review	297
Rampage.	Lewis, Malcolm	Movie review	212
Robert Kocharian.		Biography	841
Save ourselves, not the planet.	Bate, David M.	Letter to the editor	350
Small-but-scary symbol sought.		Brief article	242
Social protection.	Hicks, Lorna	Letter to the editor	160
Southern exposure: highlighting the work of photographers from the majority world.	Sebastian, Sandra	Brief article	203
Speechmarks.			14
Spiralling debt.	Rosher, Clive	Letter to the editor	241
The Body Hunters.	Godrej, Dinyar	Book review	332
The Book of Chameleons.	Whittaker, Peter	Brief article	306
Two to avoid ... Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait.	Lewis, Malcolm	Movie review	83
Unsafe and ineffective.	Chandna, Alka	Letter to the editor	253
Where the streets have no shame: an ages-old form of public expression is squeezed out. Lindsey Collen surveys the encroaching slick.	Collen, Lindsey		718
Word power.	Mitchell; Richardson	Brief article	75