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◆On the cover
Why food is in crisis―and what to do about it



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

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◆Leaders
Food
The silent tsunami
The return of Silvio Berlusconi
Mamma mia
McCainomics
One cheer for the Arizona senator
Zimbabwe
Africa's shame
Brazil
An economic superpower, and now oil too
Derivatives
Taming the beast

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◆Letters
The World Bank, Macedonia, Silvio Berlusconi, Ian Paisley, Turkey, Heathrow

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◆Special Report
Food and the poor
The new face of hunger
How countries cope
Reviving the ration card

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◆United States
Inner-city crime
Back from the brink
Crime and exoneration
In the DNA
John McCain's economics
The man with half a plan
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
Climate change
Lukewarm
The Virginia Tech massacre
Curbing guns, but not too much
Drinking
Too young to have fun
University admissions
Accepted
Lexington
A bitter pill

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◆The Americas
Colombia's president
The Uribe temptation
Paraguay's elections
Liberation politics
Canada's seal hunt
Who's the pirate?

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◆Asia
Nepal's election
The Maoists triumph
Bangladesh
A different sort of emergency
Baluchistan
Let them eat mud
Western Australia
Diggers for China
China's grain supply
The ravening hoards
The Thai police
A law unto themselves
India's Parsees
Slow breeders

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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
Crisis? What crisis?
Kenya
More nice jobs for the boys
Somalia
A hint of hope for a broken country
Iraq and the United Nations
A Kurdish conundrum
Iran
Spinning out nuclear talks
The Palestinian territories
On a wheel and a prayer

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◆Europe
Italy's election
Italy embraces Silvio, again and again
Family policy in France
Baby about-face
Spanish economy
In a slump
Russia's leadership
A double-headed eagle
Bulgaria
Dirty politics
Charlemagne
The other presidential race

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◆Britain
The internet and politics
Semi-connected
Construction cartels
Crooked builders
BAE and its critics
An inconvenient past
The Gurkhas
Trouble in the rear

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◆International
Missing persons
What the dead have to say
Muslim opinion
Just what do they dislike, and why?

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◆Business
Disney
Magic restored
General Electric
Immeltdown
Airline mergers
Trouble in the air
China's unhappy pilots
Trapped in the cockpit
European energy
Power plays
Coffee in Ethiopia
Direct from the source
Technology start-ups
Chocolate.com
Face value
Jolly gold giant

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◆Special Report
Brazil
The delights of dullness
Oil
More bounty

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◆Finance & Economics
Macquarie Group
For whom the tolls swell
Buttonwood
Still vulnerable
Derivatives
Clearing the fog
Canadian banks
Beware grannies on Facebook
Oil prices
Crude estimates
African economies
Lion cubs?
Economics focus
Krugman's conundrum

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◆Science & Technology
Cancer therapy
Stemming the tumorous tide
Alzheimer's disease
To have and have not
Nanotechnology
Silver tongues
Financial endocrinology
Bulls at work
Correction: Palaeontology

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◆Books & Arts
Steel industry battles
Forging a new world
The British in Iraq
Blood in Basra and beyond
Men, women and work
Vanilla is not the only flavour
New fiction
A tale of three women
Tony Judt
Appraiser appraised
Japanese contemporary art
Infantile capitalism
Correction: Crime fiction

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◆Obituary
Pedro Zaragoza

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Global business barometer
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Regional income distribution