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｡n the cover
The collapse of manufacturing
The financial crisis has created an industrial crisis. What should governments do about it?:


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


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｡eaders
The economy
The collapse of manufacturing
Debris in space
Flying blind
Saudi reforms
No time to lose
Fighting the Taliban
A strategy for avoiding defeat
Eastern Europe
Argentina on the Danube?


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｡etters
On Brazil, banks, privatisation in Russia, broadband, Japan, Asia, London

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｡pecial Report
Pakistan
In the face of chaos
Afghanistan and Pakistan
Boots on the ground


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｡nited States
California's crisis
The ungovernable state
The foreclosure plan
Can't pay or won't pay?
The politics of the census
Who counts?
Small homes
Very little house on the prairie
Louisiana's Bobby Jindal
The hope of the party
Baseball
Curveballs
Statewatch: Illinois
Now, to work
Lexington
The end of innocence

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｡he Americas
Venezuela's term-limits referendum
Chｨ｢vez for ever?
Political tension in Nicaragua
The new Somoza
Chile's economy
Stimulating
The restless Caribbean
Unhappy islanders
Mexico's ceramics industry
A clean plate


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｡sia
American diplomacy in Asia
Hillary says hello to Asia
Japan's crashing economy
Cold medicine
China's rural consumers
Pretend you're a Westerner
Malaysian politics
What the doctor ordered
Cambodia's Khmers Rouges on trial
Evil and the law
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers
The Tigers' lair


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｡iddle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
Not yet unity
Saudi Arabia
Tiptoeing towards reform
Israel and the Golan Heights
A would-be happy link with Syria
Iraq and its Kurds
Not so happy
Iraq's Kurds and Turkey
An unusual new friendship

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｡urope
The American car industry
In pieces
German manufacturing
A thousand cries of pain
Fashion
A new look
Starbucks
Just add water
Satellite radio
Liberty Media gets Sirius
Business in Hong Kong
Tycoons in the ascendant
Hotels
Outsourcing as you sleep
Face value
In a deep hole


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｡ritain
Chinese business
Time to change the act


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｡inance & Economics
Financial fraud
Howzat!
Buttonwood
Debtors' prison
Eastern European banks
The ties that bind
China's economy
Perhaps a reason to be cheerful?
America's economy
The second derivative may be turning positive
Remittances
Trickle-down economics
Economics focus
Full disclosure


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｡cience & Technology
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
What's cooking?
Neanderthal genetics
Basic information
Education
A handwaving approach to arithmetic
Exobiology
The lonely planet guide
Dog breeds
The long and the short and the tall


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｡ooks & Arts
Women's literature in America
A paean to the female pen
Virgin Mary
Mother of God
Fiction from Pakistan
Poignant Punjab
Oral history in China
Tales of old
｡ｰThe Winter's Tale｡ｱ
Crackling wire of menace
New exhibitions
Silken splendour


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｡bituary
Alison Des Forges


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