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Features archive - October 2008

• Nature loss 'dwarfs bank crisis'
  BARCELONA, Spain, 10 October 2008
  The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study. ...
• The long march backwards: Chinese capitalism
  ON THE WEB, 2 October 2008
  Most people, particularly those living outside China, assume that the country’s phenomenal growth and increasing global heft are based on a steady, if not always smooth, transition to capitalism. ...
• Surveillance of Skype messages found in China
  1 October 2008
  A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words. ...