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｡ﾟOn the cover
China's rulers care too much for their own welfare, and too little about the peasants



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｡ﾟThe world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

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｡ﾟLeaders
The party congress in China
China, beware
British politics
The emperor's new clothes
Pakistan
Farce in Islamabad
ABN AMRO
Triple play
Che Guevara
A modern saint and sinner


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｡ﾟLetters
On Canada, biofuels, saffron, murder rates, lynchings, risk, greens


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｡ﾟSpecial Report
Rural China
Missing the barefoot doctors

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｡ﾟUnited States
The candidates: Fred Thompson
The tall guy from Tennessee
Libertarian protests
Live free or get hauled off to prison
Abortion
Creative construction
Maritime disputes
The lobster wars
Renewable energy in Alaska
Steam and surf in the far north
Baseball
Ball blues
Katrina's deaths
Who's to blame?
New Jersey
Panic on the boardwalk
Lexington
Compassionate centrism

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｡ﾟThe Americas
Education in Venezuela
Fatherland, socialism or death
Nicaragua
Ortega's crab dance
Argentina
The Jewish card
Canada
A place apart


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｡ﾟAsia
China's Communist Party congress
Still in Mao's shadow
Tasmania
Bandicoots, beware!
Myanmar
A chink in the armour
Repression in Yangon
Waiting for the knock on the door
Sri Lanka's Muslims
Homeless and homesick
Sumo wrestling
Heavy petting
Indonesia and Malaysia
No brotherly love
Pakistan's tribal areas
The war heats up


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｡ﾟMiddle East & Africa
Sudan
The worsening chaos of Darfur
Nigeria
A dressing down
Niger
Oasis of defiance
The Gaza Strip
A riddle of rockets
Saudi Arabia
Law of God versus law of man
Iraq
Blackwater in hot water


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｡ﾟEurope
French foreign policy
Kouchner's kingdom
Passport-free travel in Europe
Burning bridges
Share scandals in France
Inside story
Switzerland's election
A noisy herd
The German left
Troubled times
Charlemagne
Europe's despot dilemma


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｡ﾟBritain
Public finances
The perils of imprudence
The British army
The politics of retreat
The BBC
A royal mess
Nuclear power
Contaminated ground


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｡ﾟInternational
Muslims and Christians
Table talk for monotheists
Civil liberties: freedom of speech
The tongue twisters
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｡ﾟBusiness
Corporate governance
Keeping shareholders in their place
Siemens
Generation game
Business television
Squawk boxes
Beer mergers
Another round?
Outsourcing
Adding sugar
Outdoor advertising
Visual pollution
Online music
The slow death of digital rights
Face value
Offers refused
Corrections: Maltese lire and Vought Aircraft Industries


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｡ﾟSpecial Report
The Airbus A380
The giant on the runway


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｡ﾟFinance & Economics
Commercial property
View from the top
Property in Japan
Back from the grave
India's economy
A Himalayan challenge
Buttonwood
It's a Wonderful Mess
Debt
Switching off the lites
Spanish banking
｢ｮVamos!
Economics focus
A workers' manifesto for China


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｡ﾟScience & Technology
Medicine
Blood simple
The 2007 Nobel science prizes
It's a knockout
Space dust
Blowing in the wind
Human evolution
Hidden charms
Correction: kidney transplants


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｡ﾟBooks & Arts
Israel's settlers
One reason for the absence of peace
Internet grassroots politics
The day of the netroots
Financial mergers
Class warfare
Ballet
An inheritance beyond price
Photosynthesis
The shedding of light
New film
An atrocity unseen


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｡ﾟObituary
Jim Michaels

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｡ﾟEconomic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Commitment to development
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Global business barometer