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Thursday 28 August 2008

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Features

Has the smoking ban reduced heart attacks?

Enforced abstention may not lead to fewer heart attacks

Reading on the web is not really reading

Susan Jacoby laments the intellectual crisis now gripping America and says that the torrent of digital infotainment is threatening basic literacy and news knowledge

Georgia sheds light on the mind of Cameron

James Forsyth says that the Tory leader is more immersed in foreign policy than first seemed probable. Unlike Brown, he has ambitions as an international leader

Behind closed doors with the maestro

As a Proms presenter, Clemency Burton-Hill had unique access to Daniel Barenboim last week: she reports on his private remarks about music and his rage for excellence

Poles are the fall guys of the immigration debate

The taboo on discussing migration has only been partly lifted, says Dennis Sewell. We pretend that all migrants are the same, whereas the statistics reveal some uncomfortable truths

Arts

Too much information

Blood and Guts (BBC4)

Poverty of the soul

Heart and Soul (BBC World Service); Gun and Knife Crime: Seeking Solutions (BBC Radio 4)

Books

Life and Letters

Allan Massie remembers Simon Gray (1936-2008)

The great deception continues

Out of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of New China by Philip Pan

Style & Travel

Acropolis now

Henry Sands says Athens’s new museum is missing its Marbles

Sitting on a rocket

Henry Sands goes powerboating in Malta

Reading on the web is not really reading

Susan Jacoby laments the intellectual crisis now gripping America and says that the torrent of digital infotainment is threatening basic literacy and news knowledge

Susan Jacoby

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