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◆On the cover
Cancer and stem cells
A theory linking cancer to stem cells offers hope; it also shows the value of general scientific research




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

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◆Leaders
Medicine
Shooting down cancer
Pakistan’s new president
A 10% chance he will get it right?
Ukraine
Near-abroad blues
Financial services
Hank to the rescue
Israel
Give Livni a chance


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◆Letters
On India's nuclear technology, estate taxes, South Ossetia, immigration, lawyers' fees

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◆Special Report
Egypt
Will the dam burst?


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◆United States
Evangelical voters
The born-again block
Voting machines
A farewell to chads
Books in Wyoming
Why cowboys read
Nimbyism
Train wreck in suburbia
Airport slots
Unfriendly skies
Slow food
Revolutionaries by the Bay
Swing states: Wisconsin
Of beer and bikers
Lexington
The triumph of feminism


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◆The Americas
Brazil
Half the nation, a hundred million citizens strong
Peru and Brazil
Connecting to the world
Venezuela’s traffic
Jam today
Venezuela and the Kremlin
The Russians are here


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◆Asia
Pakistan
The widower’s might
Pakistan’s economy
Sweets and stones
India’s nuclear deal with America
Quantum politics
India’s nuclear waiver
A legacy project
North Korea
Kim Jong Ill or Kim Jong Well?
Thailand
Where cookery is crookery
Protest in China
Post-Olympic stress disorder
An election in Hong Kong
Bad day for business


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◆Middle East & Africa
Israel
One of the trickiest jobs in the world
North Africa
A real network of terror?
South Africa
Who should run the broadcaster?
Angola
The people have their say


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◆Europe
Russia's western neighbours
Ukraine comes to the forefront
Russia and Georgia
To end a war
Germany's left
Enter the stone manager
The French language
Franglais resurgent
Silvio Berlusconi
Greece's government
Schools for scandal
Charlemagne
A worrying new world order


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◆Britain
Fighting terrorism
Overt difficulties for the police
Government beyond the capital
How dukes improved diversity
Labour and the unions
Sibling rivalry
London’s transport mess
Holes underground

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◆International
Climate change and the poor
Adapt or die
Educating migrant children
Huddled classes

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◆Business
American corporate profits
A turn for the worse
The business of giving
Non-profit capitalism
Business and regulation
A new kind of eastern promise
Boeing and Airbus
Striking differences
Advertising
Postmodern wriggle
Fairground rides
Ups and downs
Brazilians in China
Footloose capitalism
Face value
Power politics


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◆Special Report
Cancer stem cells
The root of all evil?


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◆Finance & Economics
Lehman Brothers
Fuld again
Credit derivatives
Quite an event
America’s economy
Paulson’s pluck
Buttonwood
Credit and blame
Covered bonds
From Prussia with love
Oil prices
Running out of gas
The Federal Reserve
When hawks cry
Economics focus
Redefining recession


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◆Science & Technology
Particle physics
Off into the wild, blue yonder
Traffic jams
Queuing conundrums
Space survival
Hardygrades

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◆Books & Arts
Damien Hirst
The shark's last move
Nelson Mandela
Rugby's role in his rise
Lessons from Africa
Laughter and music
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Big brains and a hairy chest
New fiction: Aravind Adiga
His master's voice

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◆Obituary
Ian Hibell

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