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SPIEGEL interview with Harvard professor Chalmers Johnson on the inadequate planning of anti-terrorist measures in the United States.


SPIEGEL interview with the German minister of the interior, Otto Schily, on the security situation in Germany after the terrorist attack in America.


SPIEGEL interview with the head of Deutsche Bank, Rolf Breuer, on the terrorist attack in America and the consequences for the business world.


SPIEGEL interview with Macedonian prime minister Ljubco Georgievski on the conditions for the continued deployment of Nato troops.


"The Morals of Money"

Children: World-wide trafficking in minors has reached alarming levels. Weak laws and lax authorities facilitate this particularly lucrative form of crime. It affects the weakest of the weak: up to five million children live like slaves.


"New Hot Goods"

SPIEGEL interview with human rights campaigner Marco-Antonio Gramegna on the world-wide battle against child trafficking and the victims' chances of leading a normal life:

"We are trying to train and inform the authorities in charge. And we want to educate the potential victims. Most of them live in extreme poverty or in regions wracked by civil war, and have no idea what awaits them abroad - coercion, rape, unpaid labour."


"Only Free in Germany"

How the Ethiopian child slave Mulu Brahan Nega escaped from her masters.


"I'm a Sailor, Not a Beggar"

Shipping: The Ukrainian training sailing ship "Tovarishch", which once served the Reich's Navy as the "Gorch Fock", has been stranded in Wilhelmshaven for the past two years, ramshackle and unseaworthy. Her crew is waiting in foreign lands and dreaming of a future at sea.


"Strength that Brings Death"

Anabolic steroids: Increasingly, doctors, pharmacists and even police officers are cashing in on the lucrative trade with muscle-building pills. The black market is being flooded by illegal products, the number of deaths is mounting.


"The Devil's Conductor"

Film: Oscar winner István Szabó has filmed the artist drama "The Furtwängler Case". With stars such as Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skargard and Ulrich Turkur he tells the tale of the great conductor's involvement with the Nazis - an instructive story about art and morals.


Legendary chess player Bobby Fischer is said to have himself played in chess games on the Internet.


"The Vichy Taboo"

SPIEGEL series: The carefully staged picture of history depicting a nation heroically resisting the Nazis is in fact a concoction. Nowhere else did the collaboration between occupiers and occupied work as smoothly as under the Vichy regime, which was dependent on Hitler.