29 AUGUST 1998, page 16

No Oil Painting

Within ten years, the world will begin to run out of its principal fuel, says James Srodes Washington DC MOST news analysts got it wrong when they attributed the $43 billion......

Mind Your Language

`HAS it got John Hunter?' asked my husband as I sat on the other side of the hearth with the New Oxford Dictio- nary of English (the Node) uncomfort- ably on my lap. `Yes,......