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｡n the cover
Asia's shock
The slump in East Asia was made at home as well as in the West




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


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｡eaders
Asia's sinking economies
Asia's suffering
Britain's armed forces
Overstretched, overwhelmed and over there
Thailand
A sad slide backwards
The first ten days
Brief encounter
Broadband stimulus
Not so fast


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｡etters
On George Bush, bankruptcy laws, Brazil's border, lawsuits, Scotland, Helen Suzman, corporate jets

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｡pecial Report
China's economy
A great migration into the unknown


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｡nited States
Barack Obama's start
High hopes, horrendous workload
Guantｨ｢namo
Promises to keep
Greenhouse-gas emissions
California's green light
Trade policy
Buying American
New York and Illinois
Over-mighty governors
Energy policy
Pumped up
The aftermath of Hurricane Ike
Blown in the wind
Lexington
Republicans seeking relevance


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｡he Americas
Canada's budget
Joining the stimulating party
The Caribbean economies
Lonely beaches
Mining in Peru
If a city's the pits


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｡sia
Japan's politics
The Fat Lady is about to join in
Cambodia's disappearing capital
Lake inferior
Fiji and the Pacific Islands Summit
Doing it his way
Sri Lanka's war
Where have all the people gone?
Politics in Bangladesh
Back to normal
India's urban environment
Heavy baggage


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｡iddle East & Africa
Congo and Rwanda
An arresting and hopeful surprise
Zimbabwe
Will power really be shared?
Diplomacy after the Gaza war
A long and bumpy road
Israel and Turkey
Bad new vibrations
Yemen and al-Qaeda
A nice safe haven for jihadists


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｡urope
Europe and America
Waiting for the Messiah
Missile defence
Cool heads
Denmark and the euro
Nordic nerves
Law and order in Italy
Trouble with figures
Turkey and the army
Conspiracy theories
Charlemagne
An Iranian conundrum


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｡ritain
Britain's armed forces
Losing their way?
Rescuing carmakers
Mandy's promise
Scottish politics
Budget show-stopper


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｡nternational
Failed states
Fixing a broken world
Catholics and Jews
A less than perfect touch

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｡usiness
Human capital and the crisis
Swinging the axe
Pharmaceuticals
Buying time
Technology stimulus plans
Paved with good intentions
Siemens and Areva
Nuclear fission
Sweden's car industry
For sale
For-profit activism
Change we can profit from
Face value
Casino Royal
Correction: Car industry


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｡pecial Report
Asian economies
Troubled tigers


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｡inance & Economics
Rescue efforts
Big government fights back
Wall Street excess
Looting stars
Buttonwood
The bonus racket
Monetary policy
Trapped
Hedge funds
One-and-ten
Derivatives
Drugstore cowboys
America｡ｯs mortgage agencies
Government-sponsored anxiety
Economics focus
(Nearly) nothing to fear but fear itself

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｡cience & Technology
Embryonic stem cells
Can I serve you now?
Geo-engineering
Every silver lining has a cloud
Biomimetic materials
Does even more than a spider can
The Richard Casement internship


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｡ooks & Arts
John Updike
An American subversive
Oil in Texas
Slick and dirty
Jaipur's Literature Festival
The power of words
Unicorns
Always elsewhere
New fiction
Simon Mawer's dream palace
The YSL/Pierre Bergｨｦ sale
Scattered to the winds
Correction: Gｨｦrard Prunier


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｡bituary
John Mortimer


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｡conomic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Foreign direct investment
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Government bonds