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◆On the cover
The meaning of Bill Gates
As Bill Gates' reign at Microsoft comes to an end, so does the era he dominated




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


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◆Leaders
Microsoft
The meaning of Bill Gates
Zimbabwe
How to get him out
Israel and Iran
It’s later than you think
Inflation
The importance of being in earnest
Microfinance
Doing good by doing very nicely indeed

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◆Letters
On civil liberties, innovation, pensions, credit derivatives, politics, mosquito nets, tax, Volkswagen, the Netherlands, driving, Iraq, beer

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◆Special Report
Migration
A turning tide?

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◆United States
Gun control
The Supreme Court opens fire
Infrastructure
The cracks are showing
The campaign
Humbug all round
Budweiser and St Louis
Crying into their beer
Renewable energy
Freezing the sun
Worker protection
The price of a tomato
El Paso
Living together
Lexington
The politics of hip-hop

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◆The Americas
Biofuels in Brazil
Lean, green and not mean
Cuba
Anyone for cocktails?
Chile
Give a fish a bad name


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◆Asia
India
Manmohan Singh’s burning ambition
North Korea
Going bang
Avian flu in southern China
A game of chicken
Australia’s foreign policy
G’day Asia
Turkmenistan
Still a prison
The Philippine ferry disaster
Those in peril
Middle East & Africa

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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
An election with only one candidate
The United Nations and Zimbabwe
Crimes against humanity
The Palestinians
Ever divided
Nigeria
The slippery business of oil

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◆Europe
France and the European Union presidency
Nicolas Sarkozy’s European apotheosis
The Lisbon treaty
The ratification game
Turkey and the army
Paper soldiers
Slovakia and the euro
Always the same winners
Lech Walesa
History’s tentacles
Minorities in Germany
A Sorb story
Charlemagne
The unanimity problem

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◆Britain
Britain and the world
Ambiguous Albion
Americans abroad
Not for much longer
Pay deals
Resistance struggles
Criminal law
A matter of justice
The Markov murder
Dead, not buried

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◆International
Education reform
Top of the class
Ancient Greek
Bats about the Attic
Politics on the web
Blog standard

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◆Business
Industrial biotechnology
Better living through chemurgy
Electricity in Spain
Price shock
Coal-bed methane
Canary in a coal mine
Video games
Asian invasion
Business in China
On a roll
Retailing
Lotte ambition
Gambling in America
A cut in the wages of sin
Face value
Rare commodity

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◆Special Report
Microsoft after Gates
After Bill


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◆Finance & Economics
Capital inflows to China
Hot and bothered
Japanese banks
On the prowl again
Buttonwood
Losing their halo
Bank of America and Countrywide
Fingers crossed
Emissions trading
Creditworthy
Banking
Tread carefully
Economics focus
Grim expectations


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◆Science & Technology
Metabolomics
Signs of a long life
The microbiome
Bug hunting
Astronomy
Stars in their eyes
Psychology
The crowd within


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◆Books & Arts
Mustangs
The killing fields
India's economy
Arvind v Arvind
Failed states
Nation-building for dummies
New fiction
Bowled out, not over
New fiction
Love the one you’re with
American contemporary art
Bits and pieces
Sweden
Potential turbulence


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◆Obituary
Mustangs
The killing fields
India's economy
Arvind v Arvind
Failed states
Nation-building for dummies
New fiction
Bowled out, not over
New fiction
Love the one you’re with
American contemporary art
Bits and pieces
Sweden
Potential turbulence


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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Organic land management
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Portugal