In daily life, the regime appears to be re-establishing its grip in some areas but losing it more often in others.

Holding up more than half the sky

Thus for the first time the famine brought North Koreans to the outside world.

Survival of the fittest: North Korean society is turbulent and in flux.

The country's biggest successes in consumer electronics are LGE and Samsung Electronics.

All the South Korean shipbuilders throw a lot of money at research and development.

South Korea today is more of a whale than a shrimp in several global industries.

Heavy industry is South Korea's sweet spot

In South Korea the average income per person is only half Japan's.

The cost of such a collapse scarcely bears thinking aboutand South Koreans for the most part are trying their best not to do so.

Koreans want their international standing to match the south's economic success. They may have to wait until the peninsula is unified, says Dominic Ziegler

The link with asthma has a different mechanism.

Helicobacter pylori has a reputation for causing ulcers and cancer. Hunting it to extinction, however, may be a mistake

As communism fell he came to loathe Boris Yeltsin, Russia's leader, seeing him as the author of chaos and humiliation.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian author and dissident, died on August 3rd, aged 89

Rich as it is, America still needs to grownot for faster cars and iPods, but to 'find the energy, the wherewithal, and most importantly the human attitudes that together sustain an open, tolerant and democratic society.'

Book review: The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth By Benjamin M. Friedman

Creative capitalism can help make it happen. I hope more people will join the cause.

Of course, governments in developing countries have to do a lot to foster capitalism themselves.

Beyond finding new markets and developing new products, companies sometimes can benefit by providing the poor with heavily discounted access to products.

A key reason market forces are slow to make an impact in developing countries is that we don't spend enough time studying the needs of those markets.

Capitalism has improved the lives of billions of people.

A powerful duo against a doughty foe

Eating well, then, is one key to a healthy brain.

Eat your way to a better brain

With Lessing entering the twilight of her life.

In what she claims is her final book, Doris Lessing makes peace with painful memories of her childhood

Quitting is leading too

Nothing is black or white

Keep your friends close-- and your rivals even closer