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◆On the cover
America's recession may not be as severe as many fear, but the recovery could take longer-and that is dangerous: leader


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


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◆Leaders
The world economy
The great American slowdown
European security and Russia
Think pipes not rockets
China and Myanmar
Keeping the flame alight
Indian financial reform
Why Mr Rajan is right
A wireless world
Our nomadic future


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◆Letters
On Europe's carbon market, finance, food prices, Botswana's Bushmen, politics, Argentina


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◆Briefing
Myanmar
Spring postponed


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◆United States
The Democratic race
Welcome to the Super Bowl
America and Iraq
A year of surge, five years of war
Pollution
Something smells a bit fishy
Free trade with Colombia
Countdown
Judicial elections
Torts and courts
Polygamy
Children of men
Lexington
Help not wanted


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◆The Americas
Latin America's economies
A coming test of virtue
Ecotourism in Peru
Rumble in the jungle
Mexico's energy reform
Regeneration
Venezuela
Strategic move


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◆Asia
The Olympic flame
Torch song trilogy
China and Taiwan
All quiet on the eastern front?
Security for the Beijing Olympics
Orange is not the only protest
Kazakhstan
Going off the rails
Japan's politics
Advantage Fukuda
South Korea
Rites of spring
Nepal's election
Mountains to climb
Timor-Leste
Impunity reigns


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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe refuses to give up
Zimbabwe's opposition
Morganatic message
Kenya
The other dodgy election
America and Africa
Americans go a-wooing
Egypt
Not by bread alone
America and Israel
Let there be justice for all


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◆Europe
European security
Redrawing the MAP in Europe
Balkan politics
All at sea
Italian politics
Return of the jester
Depopulation of eastern Germany
Tearing itself down
German army
Guts, but no iron
Journalism in France
Pipol power
Charlemagne
Danger ahead for the mighty euro


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◆Britain
Housing market
The bubble bursts
Princess Diana
Still making headlines
The politics of the downturn
It's the economy again, stupid
Defence procurement
Goldplating new armour
School admissions
Playground politics
Youth work
Dehooding the hoodies
HIV transmission
A modern bugbear
Bagehot
The impressionists
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◆International
India and Africa
When trade winds smell sweet
Malaria and the politics of disease
One quick shot may not be enough


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◆A special report on mobility
Nomads at last
Labour movement
The new oases
Family ties
Location, location, location
A world of witnesses
Homo mobilis
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers


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◆Business
The food industry
Tightening belts
Deutsche Telekom
Bad connection
Thomson
Lights, cameras, cut
Facebook and Google
Poaching
Doing business in China
850,000 lawsuits in the making
Energy in Japan
Shocking
Oil and gas in Peru
A warm welcome
Health care
Eye-opener
Face value
Addressing the ball


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◆Briefing
The American economy
The long hangover


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◆Finance & Economics
Inflation in India
Shooting the messenger
American banks
Not so thrifty
Private equity
Restoration
The IMF
Selling the family gold
Japanese finance
The bank that could not say no
Chinese property
Cracks in the edifice
Finance in the Middle East
Gender gulf
Economics focus
Policing the frontiers of finance


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◆Science & Technology
Palaeontology
Seeing the light
Autism
Not more, just different
The origin of life
Not that sinister
Early warfare
Girls on top


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◆Books & Arts
Babylon
Ere Babylon was dust
Criminals and politicians
Who uses whom?
The bin Laden family
Between Allah and America
Israeli fiction
The good soldier
The second world war in Italy
Caught in the middle
America's performing arts
Made in Europe


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◆Obituary
Charlton Heston


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