The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

young viewers is a precocious 26-year-old architect whose
favourite buildings include McDonald's and Tesco - see
Television 16/09/01
* Despite 13 plans in 13 years, London's artistic hub is fast
descending into squalor and dereliction, what can be done to
rescue it asks Deyan Sudjic 16/09/01 R 6 1>5 Photographs
* Since Tate Modern opened, the original Tate on Millbank has
been the poor relation - struggling to attract visitors, will its new
makeover pull in the crowds? 30/09/01 R 10 1>8 Photograph
* Prince Charles is to become a government 'design tsar' for
Britain's new hospitals - see Charles, Prince 14/10/01
* A redundant steel works in Rotherham, transformed into a
visitor attraction devoted to science, has won this year's Stirling
Prize, Britain's most valuable award for architecture 21/10/01 B
13 4>8 Photograph
* An attempt to create a new London village is marred by bad
design and execution 28/10/01 R 10 1>8 Photograph
* Review of British Galleries: Victoria & Albert Museum
04/11/01 R 10 1>8 Photograph
* Norwich's new library has it all - a radio station, pizzas,
computers, but books still take pride of place 18/11/01 R 10 1>5
Photographs
* Deyan Sudjic 02/12/01 R 11 7>8 Photograph
* Deyan Sudjic 09/12/01 R 11 1>6 Photographs
* Prince Charles is to set to inflame architects at the cutting edge
of modern design in the new year by instituting his own 'antiaward'
for the five worst new buildings - see Charles, Prince
23/12/01
* Architecture of the Year: Deyan Sudjic 23/12/01 R 10 1>8
Photographs
* Deyan Sudjic 30/12/01 R 10 1>7 Photographs
ARENAS, REINALDO
* Reinaldo Arenas was thrown in jail by Castro and later killed
himself in New York, now an Oscar-nominated film celebrates
the life of this controversial Cuban writer 03/06/01 R 5 1>5
Photographs
ARMADILLO
* See Book Reviews - Boucher, Caroline 02/09/01
* See Television 23/09/01
ARMANI, GIORGIO
* Tamsin Blanchard offers a private view of the enigma that is
Giorgio Armani 17/06/01 M 10>14 1>4 Photographs
ARMED FORCES
* Radioactive dust from depleted uranium weapons remains in
the atmosphere at potentially dangerous levels for up to a decade
after their use - see Uranium 07/01/01
* Uranium panic grips Nato as a dozen peacekeepers have died
and scores more claim to have been made ill be debris from US
ammunition in the Balkans 07/01/01 B 19 1>8 Photograph,
illustrations
* Inhaling depleted uranium particles causes acute symptoms
identical to those claimed by Gulf War veterans - see Uranium
14/01/01
* The MoD is forced to sign contracts with 40 hospitals outside
state system to beat long waiting lists 28/01/01 B 10 1>8
* Up to 10,000 widows are losing out because of quirks in the
armed forces pension scheme - see Personal Finance 04/02/01
* British troops serving in Kosovo will help seal its border with
Macedonia in a move that could bring them into the firing line of
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the rebellion by ethnic Albanians 25/03/01 B 2 5>6
* The Royal Air Force is facing a serious shortage of frontline
aircraft 01/04/01 B 9 6>7
* Senior officers fear meltdown as bullying and a 'macho' culture
cause soldiers to go AWOL for weeks 13/05/01 B 5 1>8
Photograph
* Report from north Kenya where the British Army trains with
live ammunition - and Masai children are maimed and killed by
the ordnance the troops leave behind 01/07/01 B 8 1>8
Photographs
* Servicemen are committing tens of thousands of crimes a year,
an Observer investigation has revealed 08/07/01 B 12 7>8
* The long delayed £1.7bn contract to replace the British forces'
obsolete battlefield radios with a digital system is likely to go to
a Canadian subsidiary of US defence group - see Business &
Industry 15/07/01
* The Canadian firm CDC courted Army top brass to win the
UK's most bitterly fought defence contract - see Business &
Industry 22/07/01
* Hundreds of British troops are expected to arrive in Macedonia
by the end of this week to help disarm ethnic Albanian guerrillas
in the north of the country 05/08/01 B 2 4>7 Photograph
* Armed forces plan to give gay partners full married benefits
12/08/01 B 2 2>7 Cartoon
* Report on the helicopter chase in the Caribbean that saw a
British Royal Navy crew foil a £60m cocaine smuggling run -
see Crime 09/09/01
* French defence contractor Thales has moved to boost UK
involvement in its attempts to build the Royal Navy's next
generation of aircraft carriers - see Defence 16/09/01
* British troops will lead an international coalition alongside
America to wage war on Afghanistan in the next 10 days - see
Terrorism 23/09/01
* American and British troops are to target a £20bn stockpile of
opium and heroin which intelligence officials believe is about to
be released... - see Terrorism 30/09/01
* Fury over pop singer Geri Halliwell's fee for entertaining
British troops in Oman 18/11/01 B 7 1>6 Photographs
* Britain's armed forces are facing a funding black hole of
£500m a year because of the additional pressures of the war on
terrorism - see Terrorism 25/11/01
* Two pilots who were blamed for the worst peace-time disaster
in the history of the RAF could soon be cleared of negligence
30/12/01 B 10 1>8 Photographs
ARMITAGE, SIMON
* Interview with Simon Armitage, poet and author - see Books
Interview, The 29/07/01
ARMITT, JOHN
* Profile on Railtrack's new chief executive, John Armitt
16/12/01 N 12 1>6 Photograph
ARMS
* A new arms race looms after reports that Russia and China are
preparing to enter into a historic pact, spurred on by plans by the
incoming Bush administration 14/01/01 B 1>2 4>6
* Britain broke its own ministerial guidelines banning the sale of
weapons in a dispute in the Western Sahara - see International
Affairs: Middle East 04/02/01
ARMSTRONG, DIDO
* Interview with Dido Armstrong, currently the world's best
selling female music star 20/05/01 M 10>14 1>4 Photographs