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◆On the cover
America is vulnerable to recession. Can booming emerging markets save the world economy?



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

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◆Leaders
Recession in America
America's vulnerable economy
Climate change
Green protectionism
France
Sarkozy's Thatcher moment
Pakistan
A coup from Wonderland
Georgia
Misha's mess
Mobile banking
A bank in every pocket?

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◆Letters
On English representation, business and human rights, technology clusters, America's military, malaria drugs, Cornish

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◆United States
Global warming
Getting the message, at last
Cap-and-trade in the north-east
Embracing Reggie
Guantánamo
Bay watch
The campaign trail
Primary colour
The Bernard Kerik case
Too close for comfort
Maryland
Fresh odds
Health care
On the frontier
Lexington
With us or against us

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◆The Americas
Brazil
All this and oil too
The Ibero-American Summit
The king was not amused
Venezuela
Challenging Chávez-for-life
The Latinobarómetro Poll
A warning for reformers

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◆Asia
Australia
Rudd in the home stretch
Pakistan's coup
When BB came marching home
Hong Kong
The iron ladies' contest
India's ragpickers
Scavenger hunt
Japan and America
Looking to the future, stuck in the present
Cambodia
Facing justice
Malaysia
Not mellow yellow
South Korean politics
The lady stays loyal

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◆Middle East & Africa
Congo
A humanitarian disaster unfolds
Somalia
Cast adrift
Iraq and Syria
The plight of the refugees
Iran
The enemy within
Gaza Strip
Tunnel visions
Correction: Ugandan guards


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◆Europe
France on strike
Let battle commence
Georgia in turmoil
Caucasian circle
Croatia
Looking to Brussels
Denmark's election
Fogh lights on
Turkey's foreign policy
An eminence grise
Germany's government
Dropping the co-pilot
A Potsdam story
When east meets west
Charlemagne
A dissertation on Romanian pork

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◆Britain
Economic troubles
When the credit dries up
Gordon Brown's foreign policy
Taking shape
Northern Ireland
Troubled waters
Bird flu
Stalking the land

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◆International
Russia and the West
Out to do business, or out for a scrap?
University rankings
Measuring mortarboards

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◆Business
Coal power
Still going strong
BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto
Financial prospecting
Business in France
Au revoir, papa?
Capsule hotels
Thinking small
Coffee
Move over, espresso
Food companies
Bitter times at Hershey
The Wall Street Journal
Brace yourselves
Proton
Lost compass
Face value
Maximum Bob
Correction: Google

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◆Special Report
America's economy
Getting worried downtown
Emerging economies
Dizzy in Boomtown

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◆Finance & Economics
African banks
On the frontier of finance
The Federal Reserve
Letting light in
Buttonwood
A yen for certainty
Investment banking
Facing the Lynch mob
Chinese banks
I scratch your back
Economics focus
Shock treatment

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◆Science & Technology
Nuclear weapons
Reliable evidence?
Human reproduction
Stress city
Optical materials
Catching rainbows
Geophysics
Going to extremes

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◆Books & Arts
Picasso's life
His middle years
Turkey's Kurdish rebels
Goading Ankara to overreach
Chechnya
A soldier's tale
There'll always be an England
Closed books
The importance of not reading
Gustav Klimt
A lover of women
Sean Penn's latest film
White death

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◆Obituary
Norman Mailer

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
R&D
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Trade logistics