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◆On the cover
Africa's next Big Man
If Jacob Zuma avoids becoming a caricature of African leadership, he could change the whole continent for the better

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

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◆Leaders
South Africa's election
Africa's next Big Man
Democracy in India
India's jumbo election
American banks
Payback time
Technology and medicine
Fixing health care
Housing
Building castles of sand


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◆Letters
On General Electric, credit-default swaps, Germany, Afghanistan, co-operatives, crime, San Francisco, knees, politicians

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◆Special Report
South Africa's elections
Voting for the people's man

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◆United States
Immigration reform
All together now
Earthquakes
State of fear
The ex-president
Back in the saddle
Uranium mining
In Virginia's glowing hills
Moonshine
Lightning strikes
North Carolina
Pipettes at the ready
Musical diplomacy
Perfect pitch
Statewatch: Iowa
It's all relative
Lexington
Obama derangement syndrome


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◆The Americas
Cuba and the United States
It takes two to rumba
Bolivia's Evo Morales
Fasting and dealing
Mexico and climate change
What's hot, green and Mexican?
Brazil and climate change
Dancing with the bear


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◆Asia
Thailand's political crisis
Dousing the flames
Fiji's constitutional coup
Puppet show
Indonesia's election results
One winner, many losers
Health care in China
Will patients be rewarded?
Dialysis in China
Free for now
India's election
The untouchable and the unattainable
Banyan
The trouble with the king
Correction: Pakistan


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◆Middle East & Africa
Piracy off Somalia
Perils of the sea
Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
A clear and present danger
Egypt versus Hizbullah
They really don't like each other
Congo's faltering economy
Too big to fail


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◆Europe
France's president
Super-Sarkozy falls to earth
Italy and Switzerland
A movable border
Greece's troubled government
An Aegean fog
The German economy
Clunk-clicked
Croatia and Europe
A Balkan state in balk
Protests in Moldova and Georgia
Street scenes
Charlemagne
Dragon nightmares


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◆Britain
Pakistan and Britain
The immigration superhighway
Police brutality
The camera is mightier than the sword
Helping carmakers
Underpowered
Housing market
A turning point of sorts


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◆International
Selection bias in politics
There was a lawyer, an engineer and a politician...


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◆Business
Medicine goes digital
HIT or miss
Flying blind
Getting personal
A doctor in your pocket
Fantastic Voyage
Health 2.0
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers


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◆Special Report
Health care in India
Lessons from a frugal innovator
Business in India
Salvaging the truth
MGM Mirage
Dicing with debt
Nintendo
Playing a new game
Internet regulation in France
Trois strikes and you're out
Business in Iraq
It's the economy, stupid
Face value
Keeper of the flame


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◆Finance & Economics
Home ownership
Shelter, or burden?


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◆Science & Technology
Banks
The audacity of hope
The world economy
Buckle down
Germany's bail-out
Too little, and late
Brazil's development bank
Central planning
Municipal bonds
Wakey wakey
Economic indicators
Googling the future
China's economy
Bamboo shoots of recovery
Economics focus
The curse of politics
Marjorie Deane internship


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◆Books & Arts
Autism and extraordinary ability
Genius locus
Conscious and unconscious thought
Incognito
Language and cognition
Twice blessed


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◆Obituary
South Africa
Going wrong
Islam
The choice facing Muslims
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Bare-knuckled capitalism
Renaissance Florence
Cradle of capitalism
Ian Fairweather
A reclusive Australian painter


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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
New Zealand
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
House prices