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◆On the cover
The Republicans, at least, seem to have found a decent candidate



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

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◆Leaders
America's election
Half-way there
Snowbound China
Megaphone apology
Technology and development
The limits of leapfrogging
Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google
Giants in combat
Kenya's tragedy
Stop this descent into hell

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◆Letters
On corporate social responsibility, Keynesian economics, Taiwan, business, wine

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◆Special Report
After Super Tuesday
A fighter in search of an opponent
The road to the Democratic nomination
The great delegate hunt begins

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◆United States
The economy
The geography of recession
Rescuing Kalamazoo
A promising future
The budget
For the bin
Crime
On foot, bike and Segway
Architecture
You're history
Snowmobiling in Yellowstone
Where the Arctic cats roam
Lexington
The people versus the powerful


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◆The Americas
Brazil
Happy families
Simón Bolívar
Time to liberate the Liberator
Chile
The slow lane
Colombia
Facing down the FARC
Canada
Gangland

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◆Asia
Afghanistan and NATO
Where the sniping has to stop
China's weather
Frozen assets
Iraqis in China
The ecumenism of commerce
China and Myanmar
Our friends in the north
Bangladesh
Looking for the exit
India's Christians
The cross they bear
Sri Lanka
Not much to celebrate
Bougainville
Explosive mines

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◆Middle East & Africa
Kenya
Ethnic cleansing in Luoland
Kenya and China
The sound of silence
Zimbabwe
Simba's roar
Chad
A regime saved, for the moment
The Arab media
How governments handle the news
The Gaza Strip
Back to abnormal

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◆Europe
Serbia
The spectre over Belgrade
Montenegro's leadership
A Balkan survivor
Italy's election
They're off, again
Islam in the Netherlands
Wild thing
France's government
The unpopular president
Political wives
For better, for worse
Charlemagne
Colonial baggage

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◆Britain
Dealing with drug addiction
Hard to swallow
British films
A fistful of sterling
Privacy and politicians
Bugbears all round
Interest rates
Bankwatch

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◆International
Smoking
How to save a billion lives
Suicide-bombers
Just what are they dreaming of?
The internet
Of cables and conspiracies
Correction: Western Sahara

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◆Business
Microsoft v Google
When clouds collide
Mining mega-mergers
Some miner concerns
Samsung
Losing its shine
Kenya's flower industry
Roses are red
Business in Japan
Food for thought
India's film industry
Bollywood rising
Auction houses
Playing favourites
Face value
Disruption of service

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◆Special Report
Technology in emerging economies
Of internet cafés and power cuts

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◆Finance & Economics
The credit crisis
Financial engine failure
Credit-rating agencies
Restructured products
Buttonwood
Bear necessities
Société Générale
The rogue rebuttal
The IMF downsizes
It's Mostly Firing
Insider trading
Too well connected
An idea for Lent
Carrot and stickK
Economics focus
Chain of fools

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◆Science & Technology
Demography and genetics
Kissing cousins, missing children
Evolution
Human races or human race?
Seismology
Plumbing the depths
Self-generated energy
Power from the people
The Richard Casement internship

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◆Books & Arts
The future of Asia
Eastern approaches
Genetic engineering
Conceiving the future
Amazon worldwide bestsellers
Heavy hitters
Fiction
Self-knowledge and self-help
Alexander Rodchenko
Pictures and pain
Peter Doig
In the woods

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◆Obituary
Marie Smith

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, February averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
The Netherlands