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◆On the cover
Inflation's back...but not where you think

Double-digit price rises are about to afflict two-thirds of the world's population:



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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
Inflation's back
Afghanistan
How the “good war” could fail
Diplomacy
Speaking to the enemy
Computers and the environment
Buy our stuff, save the planet
ASEAN, Indonesia and Myanmar
Forcing help on Myanmar
Medicine
Smart drugs

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◆Letters
On Frank Field, Barack Obama, Ecuador, St Sebastian, the Gulf economies, Israel, Margaret Thatcher, Russian bears

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◆Special Report
Afghanistan
A war of money as well as bullets

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◆United States
Gay marriage
The guys next door
The Democrats
Close but no cigar
The popular vote
She says count the vote―but how?
The farm bill
A harvest of disgrace
Noah on stage
Come to the ark
Body art
Tattoo you
Campus activism
Coming down from the trees
Douglas Wilder
An icon moves on
Lexington
Indiana McCain rides again
Correction: Mohegan Sun

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◆The Americas
Colombia and Venezuela
The FARC files
Colombia's media
An icon reborn
Education in Mexico
Testing the teachers
Canada
Prisoners of ambiguity

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◆Asia
The earthquake in Sichuan
China helps itself
Myanmar after the cyclone
A modest opening
India and Pakistan
Lost momentum
West Bengal
Comrades in arms
Taiwan's new president
Strait is the gate
Vietnam
Shooting the messenger
Indonesia
Not yet a dream; no longer a nightmare

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◆Middle East & Africa
South Africa and immigration
Give them a better life
Sudan
The south is on the brink too
Kuwait's parliament
It just slows things down
Lebanon
Peace for a while
Israel, Syria and the Palestinians
Two-track tango

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◆Europe
Germany's tax debate
Whether and when to cut
Txt msgng in Frnc
Parlez-vous SMS?
Georgia's election
Misha's test
Turkey and the Caucasus
A Caucasian cheese circle
Italy's government
Rome v Roma
Corruption in eastern Europe
Talking of virtue, counting the spoons
Charlemagne
Let them eat cake

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◆Britain
Housebuilders
Home truths
Abortion laws
Hard cases and slippery slopes
Coastal erosion
The wisdom of Canute
Football clubs
We won, so let's make it worse

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◆International
Spreading the atom
Stopping the wrong sort of chain reaction
Cluster weapons
Blown away
Rice
Thin gruel and hungry stomachs
Correction: Humanitarian intervention

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◆Business
Computing
Down on the server farm
Telecoms infrastructure
Here we go again?
Corporate governance
A family affair
Yellow pages
Dial I for internet
Leica
Reflex action
Asian media
Final curtain
Companies as activists
Strange bedfellows
Face value
Stepping on the gas

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◆Special Report
Inflation in emerging economies
An old enemy rears its head

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◆Finance & Economics
Global housing markets
Structural cracks
Buttonwood
Catch two-and-twenty
America's mortgage giants
Haggling on the Hill
European banks
Tiers for fears
Consumer finance in Japan
Lenders of first resort
Economics focus
On the poverty line
Award

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◆Science & Technology
Cognitive enhancement
All on the mind
Cognitive disenhancement
From he that hath not
Vaccines
A shot in the dark no more
The Casimir effect
Much ado about nothing

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◆Books & Arts
Population control
Horrid history
Computer animation
Tall tales
Geopolitics and America
The rise of the rest
New fiction
The call of the running tide
The globalisation of spin
Marketing maestros
New film
The whipcracker is back

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◆Obituary
Irena Sendler

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Counterfeit goods
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
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