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◆On the cover
A full-blown dollar collapse would be disastrous. Thankfully, it need not happen:



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

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◆Leaders
The dollar
The panic about the dollar
The Annapolis peace summit
Much to be modest about
Australia's political upheaval
A lucky country to run
British politics
Labour pains
Russia's parliamentary election
United to win
Business in Japan
Tuning the hybrid

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◆Letters
On religion and public life

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◆Special Report
The City of London's tumble
After the fall

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◆United States
Foreign policy and the presidential race
The world in their hands
The campaign trail
Primary colour
Religion and the environment
A cross of green
Animal health
From stockyards to animal health
Californian casinos
The new Indian wars
Construction on campus
Just add cash
Lexington
Obama's moment
Correction: Mike Huckabee

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◆The Americas
Venezuela
Are they beginning to lose the faith?
Colombia and Venezuela
Sad pawn sent to freezer

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◆Asia
Pakistan
Lest old acquaintance be forgot
Australia's new leader
Rudd, glorious Rudd!
The EU-China summit
The world does not shake China
The Dalai Lama
Heresy!
Myanmar's Rohingyas
No place like home
South Korea
Dirty laundry
Java's unstoppable mudflow
Slimy business


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◆Middle East & Africa
The Arab-Israeli summit in Annapolis
Big turnout, small result
Lebanon
In search of a government
Mozambique
Not quite as stellar as it looks
Uganda
Still gripped by fear
Uganda and the Commonwealth
Museveni, munificent with monarch

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◆Europe
Russia's election
Putin's phoney election
French riots
Le Paris flambé
The independence precedent
If Kosovo goes free
Nagorno-Karabakh
The risk of a thaw
German foreign policy
The company she keeps
Charlemagne
The Polish farewell

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◆Britain
Labour's latest scandal
When the money machine blows up
Virgin and Northern Rock
Shotgun wedding
Politics and business
If firms had the vote
Freedom of speech
Invite and insult

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◆International
Climate change
Struggling to decode Bali's message
The Clean Development Mechanism
How to make a clever deal cleverer
Mobile phones and protest
Cats, mice and handsets
Statelessness
It's tough to live in limbo
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◆Business
Telecoms in India
Full-spectrum dominance
Airlines
Pie in the sky
E.ON and RWE
Damned duopoly
Philips
Bright idea
Web metrics
Many ways to skin a cat
Corporate governance in America
Shareholder rights and wrongs
Diamonds
Culling Cullinan
Face value
Doing well by being rather nice

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◆Special Report
The falling dollar
Losing faith in the greenback

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◆Finance & Economics
Banks
Dog days of winter
Sovereign-wealth funds
Dishdashing to the rescue
Japan's markets
Why us?
Consumer credit
Card sharks
Temasek
Reverse charges
Indian fuel prices
Too hot to touch
Mortgage restructuring
Group therapy
American house prices
Fantasy or phobia?
Economics focus
A less fiery dragon?

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◆Science & Technology
Genetics and infectious disease
The germ of an idea
Drug-resistant infections
Riding piggyback
Planetary science
Barren land
Vision and nutrition
A bird's eye view

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◆Books & Arts
Thabo Mbeki
Mystery man
German politics
Local hero
American poetry
Going with the free flow
Cleanliness
Next to godliness
The British on the stage
At the party of opposition
New cinema
The story of an eye

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◆Obituary
Milo Radulovich

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
GDP per person
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Benchmark interest rates