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■Leaders
Problems with scientific research
How science goes wrong (267)
The fiscal deal in Washington
Worse than Europe, really (153)
Asset prices
A very rational award
Negotiating with Iran
The best v the not-too-bad (35)
Venezuela’s president
The crunch in Caracas (7)

■Letters
Letters
On Spain, Bulgaria, David Cameron, the census, art, missing people, roundabouts, energy, consultants (1)

■Briefing
Unreliable research
Trouble at the lab (32)

■United States
The debt-ceiling deal
Last-minutemen (241)
Infrastructure funding
Roads less travelled (4)
Across the divide (1)
Purple heart (5)
Across the divide (2)
The Christie recipe (1)
Rape in the armed forces
Breaking the silence (2)
Hurricane Sandy one year on
Stronger than the storm (1)
Lexington
Lawyers, beware lawyers (9)

■The Americas
Crime in Mexico
Out of sight, not out of mind (6)
Haiti’s army
Who needs them? (2)
A crackdown in Venezuela
News that’s fit to print (1)
Canada’s First Nations
These schools are our schools (6)

■Asia
Politics in Myanmar
Preparing for success
Press freedom in Japan
Secrecy and lies (7)
Drones over Pakistan
Drop the pilot (13)
State capitalism in Vietnam
Blowing in the trade winds (3)
Australia’s opposition
Now we need to talk about Bill (1)
Banyan
The meaning of Sachin (23)

■China
Relations with South-East Asia
Being there (44)
Online nationalism
Running dog eat dog (5)
Television
Drawing blood (7)

■Middle East and Africa
Iran and its nuclear plans
There’s a chink of hope (18)
Egypt
Back to the bad old ways (3)
Iran’s carpet trade
A magic comeback? (1)
Syria’s war
Reporters’ nightmare (3)
Yemen
A city on edge (1)
Kenya and the international court
In a tangle (2)
Politics in South Africa
Will the young bother to vote? (1)

■Europe
French politics
Against the odds (20)
Ireland
The eighth austerity budget (7)
Italy
How not to rescue an airline (9)
The church in Germany
Bishop of bling (2)
Riots in Russia
Dangerous game
Russian prisons
Slave labour and criminal cultures (3)
Charlemagne
On the Baltic slow train (10)

■Britain
Transport in London
Underground, overground (3)
Chinese banks
Open for business (1)
Andrew Mitchell
The price of cynicism (6)
Restaurants
Giving up the gosht (1)
Payday lending
Shark bait (1)
Motoring
A wacky race (1)
Labour and schools
Not so free after all (1)
Bagehot
The new Islamophobes (4)
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■International
Electricity
Edison’s revenge (4)
Solving global problems
Grey matters
Slavery
Dry bones (1)

■Business
Europe’s regional airports
Runway or another (3)
Ryanair’s future
Oh really, O’Leary? (9)
German property firms
Safe as houses
Soft drinks in Mexico
Fizzing with rage (3)
Business education for lawyers
Commercial law (3)
Technology and luxury goods
Catwalk credentials (11)
Taxis and technology
Tap to hail (6)
Schumpeter
A new business idol (15)

■Finance and economics
High-yield bonds
An appetite for junk (2)
Reforming the World Bank
Zen and the art of poverty reduction (3)
Buttonwood
Where there’s money, there’s risk (7)
Brazil’s development banks
A ripple begets a flood
Banks and tax evasion
Herve lifting (2)
American mortgage lending
Home sickness
The Hong Kong dollar
Buy now at 1983 prices (2)
Free exchange
Methods for all moments

■Science and technology
Particle accelerators
Small really is beautiful
Marine ecology
Robochop
AIDS
Bursting HIV’s bubble (1)
Human evolution
Unity or diversity? (2)

■Books and arts
Damien Hirst in Doha
They will come (1)
The man who assassinated JFK
Shot to pieces (1)
Rufus Norris at the National Theatre
Into the spotlight
Georgian London
True grit
Unconventional literary biographies
Reading between the lines
Life in Antarctica
Mind-numbing (1)
Malcolm Gladwell
Canned ham (1)

■Obituary
Norman John Gillies (4)

■Economic and financial indicators
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