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Tom Standage, editor of Technology Quarterly, talks about producing ethanol from trees

A round-up of noteworthy articles in the print edition of March 10th - 16th 2007. In this week’s podcast: Japan’s past; murder in Russia; medical tourism in Asia; and what Muslim’s think

” Just because your secretary speaks Spanish doesn’t mean he is an interpreter”
This is this week’s one liner, posted by our Road Scholar.

A round-up of noteworthy articles in the print edition of March 3rd - 10th 2007.In this week’s podcast: financial markets; the US and Latin America; medical marijuana; and sex in advertising

“There’s still racism, of course. There’s still a certain uncomfortableness about inter-racial romance. But by and large, blacks and whites rub along pretty well together.”