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A fundamental change is coming sooner than you might think:



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｡he world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

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｡eaders
Energy
The future of energy
The future of the European Union
Just bury it
Zimbabwe
Africans, please help
North America
The dangers of Mexico-bashing
The curse of untidiness
DNA all over the place

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｡etters
On the Democrats, Norman Stone, South Africa, Afghanistan, the Federal Reserve, oil, corporal punishment, Hong Kong, suburbs

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｡pecial Report
Europe's Roma
Bottom of the heap

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｡nited States
Political segregation
The Big Sort
Unions and the election
The voice of labour
The Supreme Court
Stuck with Guantｨ｢namo
Pleasing the base
Twist and shout
Flooding in Iowa
As high as an elephant's eye
Visas
Beauty and the Geek
Lexington
The class warrior


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｡he Americas
Mexico and the United States
A wary friendship
Venezuela's economy
A funny way to beat inflation
Drugs in the Andes
The unstoppable crop
Argentina's farm dispute
Cristina's climbdown
Canada
Femme fatale


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Afghanistan
Still in the fight
Afghanistan's opium poppies
No quick fixes
Beijing Olympics
Limbering up for the games
China, Japan and Taiwan
Profit over patriotism
Nepal
Two into one won't go
Myanmar after the cyclone
Crony charity

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｡iddle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
No sign of an end to the horror
Equatorial Guinea
A short trial, at last
Saudi Arabia
The puzzle of oil production
Israel and the Palestinians
Can a ceasefire hold?
Iraqi Kurdistan
Music and mountains

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｡urope
The European Union
Ireland's voters speak
The Irish prime minister
A taoiseach in trouble
France's defence review
Let's get real
Italy's prime minister and the law
The fruits of office
The western Balkans
A June tide
Jonathan Carr
German talk
Poland's politics
Looking nice but doing nothing
Poland, Russia and history
Dead leaves in the wind
Charlemagne
Democracy in Europe


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｡ritain
Civil liberties
Mary Poppins and Magna Carta
Countering inflation
Mervyn's sombre message
The Anglican Communion
Two weddings and a divorce
Royal Ascot and chavs
Barbarians at the gate

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｡nternational
The nuclear network of A.Q. Khan
A hero at home, a villain abroad
Refugees
Still knocking, as the doors close
Short-wave radio
Snap and crackle goes pop

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｡usiness
Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon
The three survivors
eBay's legal woes
Handbagged
Biotechnology
Getting personal
Beer
A bid for Bud
Technology and climate change
Computing sustainability
Bollywood and Hollywood
Close encounters
Airbus
Gathering clouds
Face value
Enter the quiet giant

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｡pecial Report
Robots
Nothing to lose but their chains
Robot surgery
Tiny, careful cuts

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｡inance & Economics
Short-selling
Nasty, brutish and short
Buttonwood
From buy-backs to sell-backs
Investment banks
Sachs appeal
Activist investors
Derailed?
Vietnam
Flu symptoms
Investment in Brazil
Money magnet
The dollar
FEER of falling
Economics focus
Emissions suspicions

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｡cience & Technology
The endowment effect
It｡ｯs mine, I tell you
Medicine
Better than cure
Circumcision
Cutting the competition
Books & Arts

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｡ooks & Arts
The Duke of Marlborough
Aristocracy at work
American foreign policy
Imperial instincts
The Pakistani army
Pointed guns
Russia
Hot love in the cold war
New fiction
Stephen Carter's ｡ｰPalace Council｡ｱ
Boxing
A cultural history


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｡bituary
Jonathan Routh

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｡conomic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Oil reserves
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Tariff barriers