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◆On the cover
A choice the West must be careful not to force on the people of the Middle East



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◆The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

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◆Leaders
The Arab world
Martyrs or traitors
Inflation
Core principles
Management in Europe
Pay slips
A counter-insurgency in trouble
Fatal errors in Afghanistan
British manufacturing
In praise of shopkeepers and sellers

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◆Letters
On American health care, Sri Lanka, recycling, Tony Blair, legacies, Russia, the six-day war, think-tanks, robots, British hypochondria

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◆United States
Environmental policy (1)
Arnie's uphill climb
Environmental policy (2)
Soot and safflower
Michael Bloomberg
Aiming for the gold, with gold
The budget
Limbering up for a fight
Hemp
On a high
The Southern Baptists
Searching their souls
Fishing
Much ado about pollock
Lexington
Pillorying Hillary
Correction: hurricanes

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◆The Americas
Canada
Time to put a tiger in his tank
Cuba
The revolution is not yet over
Mexico
Having his cake and eating it
Ecuador
Having it both ways

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◆Asia
Protest in China
Mobilised by mobile
Cambodia
Promises, promises
Timor-Leste
Taking turns
Pakistan
Conspiracy theories
Western forces in Afghanistan
Unfriendly fire
North Korea
Expect worse
Japan
The opposition's divine wind

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◆Middle East & Africa
Iraq
Is the surge going to fizzle?
Sudan
The oil factor
Saudi Arabia
Vicious about virtue
Tanzania
Boffins for Africa
Zimbabwe
Rumblings within
Correction: Egypt


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◆Europe
France
The reforming juggernaut
The French Socialists
Affairs of state
Eastern Europe's politicians
Doctor Who?
Malta and immigration
Tidal wave
Turkey's Kurds
Guns and votes
Charlemagne
The summit dances

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◆Britain
Public health
None so deaf as those that will not hear
Sir Salman Rushdie
A new chapter
Private equity in the spotlight
Taxing minds
The Dome
Re-opening an old wound

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◆International
Suicide
Elusive, but not always unstoppable
Cluster munitions
A change of heart, or of tactic?
Cyber-crime
A good bot roast

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◆Business
Airbus
Happy landing?
Yahoo!
Yin and Yang
Pharmaceuticals
On the block?
Hyundai in America
Three-point turn
Carmaking in central Europe
Vroom
Executive pay in Europe
Minder's mission
Barilla
Big portions
Face value
The outsourcerer
Award

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◆Finance & Economics
The subprime meltdown, continued
Bearish turns
Agricultural commodities
Biofuelled
Buttonwood
Research in commotion
Italy's Mediobanca
One step forward, two steps back
History's big bubbles
The boiling point
Emerging-market debt
The sovereign loses its crown
Algorithmic trading
Ahead of the tape
Economics focus
Misleading misalignments

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◆Science & Technology
Chemical and biological engineering
One for the road
Crime prediction
The jailer's dilemma
Human evolution
My sister's keeper
Astrophysics
Spiralling in space
Ecology
When small is best

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◆Books & Arts
The history of India
A miraculous journey
Pakistan's military businesses
Polished brass
European history
Revolutionary days
Fanny Kemble
A woman of many lives
Economics in Chicago
Hyde Park corner
Dutch portraits
The secrets behind the faces

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◆Obituary
Kurt Waldheim

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Long-term unemployment
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Oil reserves