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Steam makes micro return00:02
PROPERTY / Seven ages of home ownership 2: A dog, a cat, two buyers and a baby00:02
Football: Hateley stamps the Rangers hallmark00:02
Plot to go soft on car fumes: 'Do drivers care about my children's health?': Two readers write of their families' plight00:02
Almanack: Bitten not bowed00:02
ETCETERA / ANGST: Expert advice on your problems00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Chinese Red: After Jung Chang's 'Wild Swans' comes 'Red Azalea' by Anchee Min, the story of a young woman's struggle in the Cultural Revolution. Michael Dibdin gives his verdict00:02
Woman, 91, weds00:02
RADIO / If it looks like you, eat it00:02
Workers turning back from personal pension plans: Shortfall for widow00:02
Bunhill: Reading matters00:02
In Washington: Middle America sees the world00:02
City File: Pilkington00:02
INTERIORS / Art goes underfoot: Western designers are working with Turkish artisans to create striking kilims and hand- tufted rugs. Dinah Hall on the weaving together of fresh ideas and ethnic know-how00:02
Kasparov has victory in his grasp00:02
Personal Finance: Steal a march on a winter Budget00:02
Technology: The cold facts about hot chips: Intel's problem as a world-beating profit machineis how to keep the returns rolling in00:02
Spirit of the volk descends to bluster: 'Adapt or die,' leaders warn00:02
GOING OUT / Beware: exploding emotions ahead00:02
Gaddafi 'no' to Rowland buyout loan00:02
The List00:02
Letter: Unhappy end00:02
Football: Who's next on the vegetable rack? A form guide to the fancied runners in the race to succeed Graham Taylor00:02
Letter: Licence to kill00:02
Peas fail to please Hillary Clinton00:02
News From Elsewhere: Small country, big problems00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
ART EXHIBITIONS/ The plain dealer from Philadelphia, USA: Old-fashioned virtues shine from the work of Thomas Eakins00:02
Tories demand pro-Europe drive00:02
Football: Ferdinand makes the running00:02
Letter: Birmingham's new deal00:02
TRAVEL / Hobby Holidays: Painting00:02
The lessons of a little boy's death: Celia Dodd talks to a mother whose baby died of meningitis00:02
Foreign firms scoop Tube work00:02
A town under siege by the sea: Since its beach was washed away, Withernsea on Humberside is cracking up from twice-daily poundings at high tide00:02
Protest to Pope00:02
Labour man defends Irish claim to Ulster00:02
TRAVEL / SKI SPECIAL: Snow motion00:02
Leaders who shame us all00:02
Odyssey for invoices in the world of Producer Choice00:02
A funny wee idea for a show: Ian Jack misses Andy Stewart and the whole 'White Heather Club' crowd00:02
Rise of a late developer who came from behind00:02
Letter: Most single men are rejects00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Mine's a double, please: 'Mr Barrett's Secret' - Kingsley Amis: Hutchinson, 14.99 pounds00:02
Board battle looms at Lonrho: Rowland and other directors get big pensions on top of salary - Bock likely to set up remuneration committee00:02
Football: Collymore pierces the gloom: Guy Hodgson sees a striker pay dividends as relieved Forest beat leaders 2-100:02
Shopping00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Illuminated work: Paradiso: The Illuminations to Dante's Divine Comedy by Giovanni di Paolo, with introduction and commentary by John Pope-Hennessy, Thames & Hudson pounds 45.00:02
Football / World Cup: Irish must fear god of reason: Eamon Dunphy on why a selection policy went wrong00:02
ART EXHIBITIONS / Cool, calm and collected: Great claims have been made for Ben Nicholson. But a new retrospective at the Tate Gallery reveals an accomplished painter who is lacking in passion00:02
HEALTH / Second opinion00:02
Bureaucrats stay in the pink00:02
Put that out, please: Passive smokers were urged to defend their air-space last week. Isabel Woolf tried asking people nicely00:02
Racing: Head girl in Champion class: Charities will benefit as Maktoum Al Maktoum wins the race he sponsors with Hatoof00:02
Aerogels come into their own: Rarefied substance is to end 60years of obscurity, writes Nuala Moran00:02
Competition: Win Bob Dylan videos00:02
Race march explodes into riot: Policeman paralysed, fighting and arrests as 25,000 head for headquarters of British National Party00:02
Bunhill: Sorrow over tax office00:02
Captain Moonlight: Cat nip00:02
Rugby Union: Davies has spark to plug gap00:02
Economics: Why Mr Clarke is an accident set to happen00:02
Letter: All change00:02
Landowners in search of a plot: 'Act of the Damned' - Antonio Lobo Antunes trs Richard Zenith: Secker, 8.99 pounds00:02
Sailing: Dalton on course for record00:02
Scots radicals aim to drive out English00:02
Nuclear waste 'to be dumped at sea'00:02
The Great Coal Stitch-Up: A year ago miners had everything to fight for. The Government outwitted them. Paul Routledge on the death of an industry00:02
Rugby Union: All Blacks have the style of winners: Five to become famous as the tour unfolds00:02
Letter: Old prejudice00:02
Rugby Union Round-Up: Wallabies' wet00:02
CINEMA / It's just a bloody farce: Quentin Tarantino: genius, or gore bore?00:02
Rowland rides into Lonrho's final shootout: Empire builder ranges from Africa to Switzerland in quest for allies as his company slips from his grasp. Richard Thomson reports00:02
DANCE / Dancing in the dark: Britain's best-loved dance company is out of funds and out of favour. Anne Sacks on a crisis at the Royal Ballet00:02
Almanack: Bullied beef take a dive00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: The least racist nation00:02
Football: What the papers said . . . about England00:02
Expansion: Turning the tables to conquer China: A furniture maker reinvents itself00:02
Letter: Fumes data00:02
Shares: Shares that go better in the heart of Dixie00:02
TELEVISION / Tears, jerks and fakery: What happened when a daytime chat show was confronted by grim reality00:02
Football: Graham pays for caution00:02
Bunhill: Crystal ball view on conmpanies00:02
Sorting out the rules of engagement: Feminism and the students' mating game00:02
Bitrthdays00:02
Angels need matchmakers too00:02
Quotes of the week00:02
MOTORING / Stealing the Show: This year's hopeful debutantes go on display at the Motor Show in London on Thursday. Roger Bell picks ten of the most interesting, from Fiat Punto supermini to Saab 900 hatch to Aston Martin DB700:02
Indian army besieges mosque00:02
Football: Fox is too wily for Hoddle00:02
Rugby League: Sun shines on Devereux00:02
Bunhill: Hello hello00:02
The Broader Picture: Skating when the ice is right00:02
PC's skull broken00:02
Letters: Briefly00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A thorn in the bear-garden: 'In no Uncertain Terms' - Helen Suzman: Sinclair-Stevenson, 17.95 pounds00:02
Pilot killed00:02
Football: On the move00:02
Football / World Cup: Madness in his methods: World Cup woes: Taylor now needs an outrageous turn-up as Charlton's men seek to overcome a trauma of their own - Richard Williams exposes a lack of tactical awareness00:02
Baseball: How and Why - Dave Stewart's split-fingered fastball is the key to the World Series00:02
Football: Match facts00:02
Slimmer of the year00:02
Profile: Racing beyond the famous names: Louis Schweitzer, Renault's chairman tells John Eisenhammer how he plans to keep the car maker up to speed00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks00:02
Captain Moonlight: Not on the list00:02
How much does he earn?: No 1: Graham Taylor - Manager of the England football team00:02
Sport Q & A: Case of theperipatetic goalie . . . and narrow minds at Ibrox00:02
BOOKS / Events00:02
TRAVEL / SKI SPECIAL: Chill Factor: Measure yourself against the hippest on the piste and take the insiders' test00:02
FOOD & DRINK / The worlds great beanfeast: They used to be one shape and went with toast. In the first extract from his new book, Michael Bateman reveals all the beans and pulses in their true colours00:02
Holiday jets within 300ft of disaster00:02
Rugby Union: Underwoodgoes into overdrive00:02
North keen to make serious imprint00:02
City File: Buyers to ease burden on Do It All partners00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Thin end of the veg: 'The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing & Imprisonment' - Maud Ellmann: Virago, 7.99 pounds00:02
Squash: Macree excels to lead English onslaught00:02
Snooker: Out of the shadows comes a bright star: Gordon Burn meets Ronnie O'Sullivan, the new golden boy of snooker who has emerged from a troubled past to lay claim to a better future for himself and Barry Hearn00:02
No one answers telephone call for help00:02
Bond winners00:02
Companies ready to pile into Lloyd's: Limited liability and promise of high returns attracts corporate investors00:02
ARTS / Cries & Whispers00:02
Captain Moonlight: Remaindered memoirs00:02
ART MARKET / Up for sale00:02
Letter: Pension rights00:02
DANCE / A mad, mad, mad, mad whirl00:02
Plot to go soft on car fumes: 'We live in fear by the A34': Two readers write of their families' plight00:02
Tiny figure who may rewrite prehistory: Enigma with a human shape goes on display in Israel00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Visited by someone like a virgin: 'I Dream of Madonna' - ed Kay Turner: Thames & Hudson, 6.95 pounds00:02
DTI takes credit inquiries to public00:02
Motorists warned00:02
Swimming with the trend: Angela Wilkes looks at the controversy surrounding birth under water00:02
Outreach with technology: Rural communities and innovative small businesses are being given hi-tech help. Sally Watts reports00:02
GARDENING / And for my next trick . . .: Helen Chappell shares some techniques to transform a garden by playing with perspective00:02
COMEDY / Not the funniest man in Britain00:02
'End gas monopoly by 1996'00:02
Football: Keane and Sharpe give United edge00:02
Captain Moonlight: Curtain calls00:02
Plot to go soft on car fumes: Despite fears that exhaust gases are linked to a child asthma epidemic, ministers intend to ease control on emissions00:02
TRAVEL / SKI SPECIAL: Snow flakiness: If skiing leaves you cold, how about doing something really dangerous?00:02
Sarajevo sustains heavy pounding00:02
Bunhill: Where are you, Adam Smith?00:02
Rugby League: Kiwis are put to flight: Debutant Robinson strikes twice in Britain's command performance as New Zealand are found wanting on rugby league's big stage00:02
Nobel legacy of political dynamite: Salvation Army misses its calling as secretive peace prize committee backs Mandela, De Klerk and the 'forces of good'00:02
Letter: Food is safe00:02
TRAVEL / SKI SPECIAL: Controls to thrill: New hardware will maximise safety on the slopes without spoiling the fun00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
Fast moves on the media highway00:02
The Art of Theatre: 2 The Retrospective: Nicholas Wright's masterclass00:02
Scenes from domestic life00:02
Letter: All change00:02
The prelate, the priest and the Mafia: For centuries Catholic leaders kept quiet - now Father Paolo daily risks his life to save young Sicilians from the godfathers00:02
Golf: Sun City's greater challenge00:02
Captain Moonlight: White and wrong00:02
MUSIC / Airs on a shoestring00:02
Most-wanted plotter caught in Russia00:02
Race to design pigs that live on grass: Companies cash in on genetic research00:02
SHOW PEOPLE / 'Life' reached by stages: Matthew Warchus00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Min and Mao: An extract from 'Red Azalea'00:02
Letter: Wrong toremove this right00:02
Home's where the US heart is: As America's vision of policing the world recedes, will public opinion force Clinton to take an isolationist stance?00:02
Professor of surgery enters a male theatre00:02
Political Commentary: As term starts, beware those 'boring' debates00:02
Audit helps take stock: Best and worst - Selective investments00:02
Cannabis arrest00:02
ROCK / Doin' it for themselves00:02
Almanak: Gadget of the week00:02
Cycling: Boardman bows to the inevitable00:02
City & Business: Tiny's best hope00:02
TRAVEL / SKI SPECIAL: When to go00:02
Leading Article: Family devalues00:02
City File: SmithKline Beecham00:02
Winter is here from the Arctic00:02
The Iron Lady returns. . .this time in wood, paint and plasticine00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Floods test the gaps in policies00:02
City & Business: Jardine rules at Trafalgar00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The girls' turn to be bookworms: 'The Woman Reader 1837-1914' - Kate Flint: OUP, 25 pounds00:02
Workers turning back from personal pension plans: Insurers help miners and NHS employees return to their occupational schemes00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The best fears of our lives: 'The Robber Bride' - Margaret Atwood: Bloomsbury, 14.99 pounds00:02
Cricket: Crowe confident in his young charges00:02
THEATRE / A swift half with Mike Leigh00:02
Letter: Criminal attitude to theft00:02
Letter: All change00:02
Orange-juice wrangle gives ministry the pip: Acting asconsumers' champion has backfired on civil servants00:02
Letter: All change00:02
Bunhill: Cutting edge00:02
FASHION / Heady stuff: Treacy puts on his own show00:02
British Sugar refines its planning: Photographs from space can save millions by forecasting beet crops three months ahead00:02
Cricket: Fear and losing at Old Trafford: Guy Hodgson explains how a season of under-achievement has left a county riven by internal strife00:02
Rear Window: Goodbye children everywhere00:02
Older self-employed lose out on health insurance: What support can pensioners who rely on earned income expect if they should fall ill? Maria Scott reports00:02
Almanack: Will Sydney be served on a dish?00:02
Girl cyclist killed00:02
Sport on TV: Big Ron in the land of little Englanders00:02
Bunhill: Gloves off at the Treasury00:02
Shot in the dark for lottery bids: Millions being spent to win national licence00:02
Corporate Image: Giant that rose without trace: EDS has become an industry leader but few can explain what it does00:02
Smith to reshuffle team00:02
Leading Article: All right on paper00:02
Shot robber was Bosnia mercenary00:02
ROCK / Men and their buttons: In Beaconsfield and Dollis Hill something is stirring. Ben Thompson samples the new sound of the suburbs00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Daily bread: What the Tranmere Rovers winger ate in one day00:02
Opinions: Do you fancy your secretary?00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
All queues break down in adversity00:02
Americans stunned by Howard's jail policy00:02
Why Flipper lost the will to live00:02
Haiti on edge over new threat00:02
Murder charge00:02
Sport: Data base00:02
On excellence: Back to the homework00:02
Tennis: Lendl survives tense tie-break00:02
BOOK REVIEW / To Havana and have not: 'Writes of Passage' - G Cabrera Infante: Faber, 14.99 pounds00:02
Football: Pitcher catches Leicester out00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Grapevine: Kathryn McWhirter savours this week's best buys00:02
The Independent on Sunday Bestseller List00:02
TRAVEL / SKI SPECIAL: Bypassing the last resort: Tired of sharing the same slushy slopes with tribes of Club 18-30 skiers? Our guide will help you choose when and where to go to find classier descents at the lowest prices00:02
UN quenches the Cuito inferno00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Candid king of the Bs: 'A Siegel Film: An Autobiography' - Don Siegel: Faber, 20 pounds00:02
Bunhill: Grand story00:02
RECORDS / New releases00:02
Fishing Lines: Dogged by an unruly couple00:02
Treasury threatens more cuts for defence: Row over public spending00:02
Business Information Service: This week00:02
The day the new world order died: Only a political solution can save Somalia00:02
TRAVEL / SKI SPECIAL: Downhill devotion00:02
The last of the high rollers?: Tiphook's boss fights for his corporate life as his advisers try to 'rein him in'00:02
When two careers collide: Can working couples make happy families? Geraldine Bedell reports00:02
Letter: Mystery name00:02
All news is bad news00:02
TRIED & TESTED / When it's crunch time: Do you know your cheese and onions? Our taste panel tests leading crisp brands00:02
Branding: Small screen magic hits shops: A licensing deal gives new meaning to the term TV dinner00:02
Flights of fantasy00:02
Letter: Hard lesson00:02
Profile: Serious intent of a 'choker' - Jana Novotna00:02
City File: Dia Met and Lytton Minerals00:02
City File: Virtuality00:02
ETCETERA / Other people's jobs: No. 2 The Bear Seller00:02
Profile: Germaine Greer - Another age, another rage: Her gift is certainty, but, says Isabel Hilton, that doesn't mean she's ever been consistent00:02
FASHION / Style Notes00:02
A CRITICAL GUIDE / Staying in: Long Runners: No 2: Eastenders00:02
Captain Moonlight: M'learned chat show host00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A belly full of the blues: 'The Life and Legend of Leadbelly' - Charles Wolfe & Kip Lornell: Secker, 17.99 pounds00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Hornet's nest of Peru: 'In the Forests of the Night' - John Simpson: Hutchinson, 16.99 pounds00:02
City & Business: Name of the game00:02
Open days can clear a career path for girls00:02
TRAVEL / SKI SPECIAL: Peaks and toffs: Money no problem? Good. Skiing is a joy for the rich. If you've got the cash, here are the places to cut a dash00:02
Captain Moonlight: Old revolutionaries never die, they simply melt away00:02
Rugby Union: Ubogu cruises in top gear00:02
Football Round-Up: Hapless Barlow is in the red00:02
City File: London International Group00:02
Hockey: Hounslow take half-chances00:02
Football / Divisions Two and Three: Barnet break their duck00:02
Golf: Matches that strike home00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In brief00:02
EATING OUT / Vodka and lambada a la polonaise: Lowiczanka: The Polish Restaurant00:02
BOOK REVIEW / More sinner than saint: 'De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow' - Tim Pat Coogan: Hutchinson, 20 pounds00:02
Deaths00:02
Clegg in frame at Greycoat00:02
Today's papers00:02
First-Hand: 'No job is worth another heart attack': Mike Goldsmith, a coronary survivor, has some advice for Michael Heseltine00:02
Golf: England owe it to Baker00:02
City File: Bank of England00:02
From rent to repossession?: The latest attempt to turn council tenants into home-owners may not be the bargain it seems00:02
High life in sun for BBC battalion00:02
My biggest mistake: Claude Bebear, chairman of AXA00:02
Clarke's conundrum: The Chancellor's future depends on getting next month's Budget right. Stephen Castle and Robert Chote report00:02
Premadasa's killer 'had nine back-ups'00:02
Snooker: Why Hearn is chasing another pot of gold00:02
City & Business: Murdoch's ploy00:02
How We Met: Magenta De Vine and David Okuefuna00:02
Rugby Union: All Blacks have the style of winners: Chris Rea explains why the accident-prone New Zealand tourists should still sweep all before them on their British tour00:02
Letter: All change00:02
Letter: All change