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America's economy
Over the cliff? (133)
Italian politics in turmoil
Run, Mario, run (29)
North Korea
Space cadet (13)
Obesity
Fat chance (23)
Non-bank finance in Europe
Embracing the alternatives (5)

■Letters
Letters
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■Briefing
Non-bank finance
Filling the bank-shaped hole (2)

■United States
The fiscal cliff
On the edge (11)
America’s demographic squeeze
Double bind (11)
Right-to-work laws
Now Michigan (15)
Food stamps
Counting pennies (10)
Racial classification
All together now (9)
Season’s greetings
Merry Chrismukkah
Lexington
Terms of surrender (12)

■The Americas
Venezuela
Preparing to pass the torch (2)
Foreign investment in Canada
Thus far but no further (4)
Justice in Colombia
Who should try the soldiers? (2)

■Asia
North Korea’s rocket launch
Beaming (2)
Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban
To the table (3)

■China
The economy
An understated recovery (3)
The capital
Removal time (6)
Political symbolism
Ditching dour
Banyan
The rocky road to revival (4)

■Middle East and Africa
Egypt’s choice
The Founding Brothers (8)
America and the Middle East
The masochism tango (5)
Unstable Mali
The 400 coups
South Africa
Wrangling in the ruling party (2)
Ghana’s election
Still shining (3)

■Briefing
Trying war crimes in Bangladesh
The trial of the birth of a nation (597)

■Europe
Italian politics
Will Monti run for prime minister? (13)
Romania’s election
Clear victory, uncertain future (6)
Serbia
Confounding expectations (13)
Danish Christmas trees
Firly resilient (2)
Lower Saxony
The Hanoverian connection
Russian politics
A new ideology for political ends (10)
Charlemagne
Europe’s worries about Italy (12)

■Britain
Measuring diversity
The London effect (9)
Northern Ireland
The bones of the past (3)
Gay marriage
Ties that divide (4)
Linn hi-fi systems
Streaming toddler
Managing floods
Go with the flow (1)
Anglo-Russian relations
Ballets Russes
Sir Patrick Moore
Fallen star (2)
Bagehot
A season of dolour and dole (1)
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■International
The politics of corruption
Squeezing the sleazy (1)
Catholic conservatives
A traditionalist avant-garde (63)
Climate conference
What Doha did (1)

■Special report: Obesity
The big picture(14)
The science
The caveman’s curse(6)
Treating obesity
Slim pickings(3)
Health effects
A heavy burden(1)
Small, rich and overweight(1)
Food companies
Food for thought(3)
The Big Mac index(2)
Government intervention
The nanny state’s biggest test(1)
Nudge, nudge(2)
Containing obesity
The last course
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■Business
Foxconn
When workers dream of a life beyond the factory gates (17)
Corporate taxation
Wake up and smell the coffee (8)
The EU’s unitary patent
Yes, ja, oui, no, no (2)
Corporate computing
Network effect (1)
Personal data
Know thyself (1)
Hispanic television in America
Lights, camera, accion! (2)
Tourism
From satanic mills to sundecks
Schumpeter
Gold-hunting in a frugal age

■Finance and economics
Infrastructure in India
RIPPP (1)
Buttonwood
Big is not always beautiful
HSBC and Standard Chartered
Too big to jail (5)
The Federal Reserve
The other mandate (4)
Inequality in China
To each, not according to his needs (5)
When global banks fail
National trust
Financial-transaction taxes
Skimming the froth (2)
Free exchange
The scam busters (5)

■Science and technology
Global health
Lifting the burden (1)
Space flight
Flight of the phoenix
3D printing
Your flexible friend
Parenthood and life expectancy
Pro creation (6)

■Books and arts
Political theory
Thinking men (1)
Turkey
Out of the chrysalis (10)
A history of pirates
Eye on the main chance (2)
British theatre
The miller’s tale
New cinema: “Midnight’s Children”
Night vision
The “Ring” cycle at the Teatro Massimo
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