It describes a life form that inhabits a small nebula known as a Bok globule, which visits the solar system to refuel from the sun.

ECONOMIST: Sir Fred Hoyle

The authors of this collection of essays Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Howard Zinn, among others will seem irredeemably parti pris to those who still believe that sanctions must be held steady, albeit with exceptions for humanitarian relief, until Iraq has come clean about the last globule of biological horror hidden away in a bottle in somebody's fridge.

ECONOMIST: Iraqi sanctions