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[IMAGE] =09[IMAGE]=20 [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] ADVANCED SEARCH [IMAGE] [IMAGE] =09[IMAGE] =09[IMAGE] =09 =09 =09Wednesday April 25th 2001 =09 =09 =09Subscribe now! | E-mail & Mobile Editions | Screensaver =09 =09[IMAGE] =09[IMAGE] [IMAGE] OPINION WORLD BUSINESS FINANCE SCIENCE PEOPLE BOOKS & ARTS MARKETS DIVERSIONS [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Our new travel section [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE]=20 [IMAGE] SURVEY: SOFTWARE =20 Find thought-provoking articles about the future of software in the newly= =20 published Economist survey. This essential reading provides a history of= =20 open source software, details the growing trend towards software leased vi= a=20 the Internet, and explains the battle of operating system platforms. Click= =20 here to read about the future of software. [IMAGE] PRINT EDITION THE ECONOMIST [IMAGE]Full contents [IMAGE]Subscriptions =20 [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE]=20 [IMAGE] [IMAGE][IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09On the Global Agenda=20 =09=09=09=09 April 25th 2001 =09=09=09=09=20 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09Japan's maverick wins=20 =09=09=09=09Junichiro Koizumi, a politician regarded by party elders as a = dangerous=20 maverick, has been elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic=20 Party and is set to become prime minister. He could be a breath of fresh = =20 air for Japan=01*if his reformist zeal can survive the next few weeks =20 =09=09=09=09Full article =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09Freeing trade in the Americas=20 =09=09=09=09Protesters captured much of the media attention at the Summit = of the=20 Americas in Quebec on April 20th-22nd. The leaders themselves were=20 undeterred. They took an important step towards their goal: creating the= =20 largest free-trade area in the world.=20 =09=09=09=09Full article=20 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09Cavallo's crisis=20 =09=09=09=09Political confusion, mounting economic woes and waning confide= nce threaten=20 to push Argentina into a debt default. Unless Domingo Cavallo, the economy= =20 minister, can pull the country back from the brink, the consequences for a= ll=20 Latin America will be dire =20 =09=09=09=09Full article=20 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09Upsetting China=20 =09=09=09=09George Bush's long-expected decision about which arms to sell = to Taiwan=20 does not go as far as many in the Republican Party had demanded, but it i= s=20 enough to alter the balance of power in Asia, and enough to upset the=20 Chinese =20 =09=09=09=09Full article=20 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09 =09=09=09=09Dialling up trouble=20 =09=09=09=09Mobile-telephone operators are in big trouble. Some equipment = suppliers are=20 stumbling too. 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