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■Briefing
Nigeria
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■United States
Health-care reform
Passing the baton
College enrolment
Boom times
The killings at Fort Hood
After the rampage
Tim Pawlenty and the presidential race
T-Paw stakes his claim
Culling deer
The war on Bambi
Oklahoma's economy
Come home, Tom Joad
Streetcars in Washington, DC
Rolling stuck
Baltimore's mayor on trial
Dixon in the dock
Lexington
Farmers v greens

■The Americas
Presidential politics in Brazil
Her master's voice
Public morality in Brazil
Hemlines and headlines
Venezuela and Colombia
Jaw-jaw war
Gloomy Jamaica
Unfixable?
Canada's prime minister
Home thoughts from abroad

■Asia
Japan's government
Out of tune
Military strategy in Afghanistan
Tactical retreat?
Thaksin Shinawatra and Hun Sen
A new way to annoy a neighbour
Singapore and immigration
A PR problem
China's state-owned enterprises
Nationalisation rides again
Fiji and Oceania
Coconut dictator
Banyan
Barack Obama's Asian adventure

■Middle East & Africa
The leadership of Palestine
Will he jump?
Iraq's mobile-phone revolution
Better than freedom?
Rivalry over hummus
An emotive issue
Regional diplomacy and Zimbabwe
When patience finally runs out
Race and power in South Africa
Trouble at the grid
Hope for Zanzibar
Taking the spice out of politics
Uganda and homosexuality
Don’t ask

■Europe
Germany's foreign policy
A new game of dominoes
Turkey and the Kurds
Peace in sight?
Islamic finance in France
Sharia calling
The far right in Russia
Cracked up
The far right in eastern Europe
Right on down
Demography in the Balkans
A birth dearth
Charlemagne
Single market bargaining

■Britain
The planning takeover
The nuclear option
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Splitting the cost
Gordon Brown and the Tobin tax
Desperate measures
Public opinion on Afghanistan
Hearts and minds
Britain's economic outlook
Still overcast, but brightening [Britain only]
The DNA database
Slightly less big brother [Britain only]
British banks in transition
The great escape [Britain only]
Bagehot
The conjuror's bluff

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■International
Drugs
Virtually legal
The UN and corruption
Extracting teeth, and other things

■A special report on business and finance in Brazil
Getting it together at last
Breaking the habit
Survival of the quickest
Arrivals and departures
Condemned to prosperity
The self-harming state
A better today
Two Americas
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■Business
Music piracy
Singing a different tune
Media
Bulking up
State-owned enterprises
Stakes and mistakes
The fallout from GM keeping Opel
The German charm offensive
Face value
Salesman of the irrational
Oracle and Sun Microsystems
Merger interruptus
Japan as number one
Land of the setting sun
Schumpeter
The cult of the faceless boss

■Briefing
Derivatives
Over the counter, out of sight
Correction: Japan's technology champions

■Finance and Economics
The world economy
Dangerous froth
Minsheng's IPO
The not-so-little guy
South Korea's recovery
Leaning experience
White-collar trials
Subcrime
American stockmarkets
High-speed slide
Buttonwood
Paper promises, golden hordes
Accounting rules
Divided and overruled?
Mario Draghi, international regulator
The restless Italian
Economics focus
Secret sauce

■Science & Technology
Lagrangian coherent structures
The skeleton of water
Gut bacteria and obesity
Holy shit!
Electronics
Seeing clearly
Anatomy and sport
Athlete's foot
Dinosaurs
How to exterminate a dinosaur

■Books & Arts
The history of the Arabic-speaking peoples
A political lesson
The roots of the financial crisis
Market idol
Google
Facing the frenemy
Philip Roth's new novel
The crabbiness is all
Hollywood
The crown prince of Culver City
Bauhaus
The coast of Utopia
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■Obituary
Claude Lévi-Strauss

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