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The rise and fall of the wealthy
The rich under attack
The G20 and the world economy
Be bold
Religion and human rights
The meaning of freedom
Democracy in South-East Asia
The Indonesian surprise
Russia and the rule of law
The Trial, round two
Israel's new government
Change your tune
Letters
On carbon capture and storage, Hmong women, credit-default swaps, philanthropy, the middle class, Michelle Obama

Briefing
Indonesian democracy
Beyond the crossroads
United States
The economy
A faint sound of applause
Statewatch: California
Under the tarnish, still golden
Health care
Harry and Louise ride again
The scrap-metal market
Nothing glisters
The Midwestern floods
A river runs through it, again
Florida's public defenders
Out in the cold
Lexington
A nation of jailbirds
The Americas
Mexico and the United States
Taking on the narcos, and their American guns
The Mexico-US border
Fear of violence
The progressives' Chile summit
Home truths
White-collar crime in Canada
Too trusting
Ra伃 Alfons匤
An Argentine democrat
Asia
India's election
Congress's great dynastic hope
Pakistan
The war on Pakistan's Taliban
Afghanistan and Pakistan
More troops and money
The Khmers Rouges and justice
The court on trial
Thailand
No green light
South Korea
Mad bullying disease
Middle East & Africa
South Africa
Politics versus the law
A mysterious air raid on Sudan
A battle between two long arms
Israel's electoral system
Make it better
Saudi Arabia's Prince Nayef
A rising but enigmatic prince
The Arab League summit
Unity of a kind
Iraq's former insurgents
Bad blood again

Europe
The Khodorkovsky case
A new Moscow show trial
Turkish politics
A wake-up call from the voters
Bosnia's future
A tearing sound
Troubled Macedonia
The name game
Charlemagne
The great euthanasia debate
Britain
Renewable energy
Greenstanding
Jacqui Smith
There's a recession on, you know
Politics and the internet
Today, Strasbourg; next, the world
British tax havens
Sinking assets
Building societies
Dunlending
Economic outlook
Glimmers of hope, forecasts of gloom
The equality industry
Rumblings in quangoland
Bagehot
Who runs Britain?
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The G20 summit
The Obama effect
Cyberwarfare
A Chinese ghost in the machine?
Religion and human rights
Diplomacy, faith and freedom
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A special report on the rich
Easier for a camel
Show them the money
Bling on a budget
A thing of beauty
Dropping bricks
More or less equal?
Giving it away
Plucking the chickens
Paying the bill
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers
Business
America's car industry
Time for a new driver
Carmaking in France
Mover and shaker
Computing
Clash of the clouds
Online gaming in China
Intangible value
Consumer psychology
From buy, buy to bye-bye
Face value
Ticket to ride
Briefing
The semiconductor industry
Under new management
Finance and economics
Japan
The incredible shrinking economy
Mexico and the IMF
No strings attached
Buttonwood
Minsky's moment
Regulating banks
Basel brush
The black market
Notes from the underground
Spanish banks
The mess in La Mancha
Gold
Bullish on bullion
Economics focus
The grass is always greener
Marjorie Deane internship
Correction: Globalisation and trade
Science & Technology
Neuroscience and social deprivation
I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told
Astrophysics
Ethereal wisps
Biometrics
Knobbly ID
Mining safety
Bash for help
Books & Arts
William Shakespeare
Soul of the age
Vince Cable
Spirit of the age
Eug鈩e Ionesco's 摘xit the King・ Forgotten gem
A shadow falls
In the heart of Java
Adolf Eichmann
Manhunt
The American civil war
Mule steak and dressed rat
Leaving Tangier
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Obituary
John Hope Franklin
Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
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The Economist commodity-price index
Women in parliament
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Learning the hard way
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The American presidency
Learning the hard way
The G20 summit
London calling
Saving America's banks
Only halfway there
The war in Afghanistan
Say you're staying, Mr President
Emerging-market multinationals
Not so nano


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On Barack Obama, legalising drugs, Kenya, Handel

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Barack Obama's progress
Coming down to earth
Correction: Drugs


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◆United States
Populism
Will there be blood?
New York state politics
Taking the battle upstate
The budget
Ammunition for the critics
Cowboy poetry
Laureates of the lariat
Power from chocolate
The mighty bean
Energy research
Energiser money
Homelessness
Shelter from the storm
Public health
Out of the mouths of babes
Lexington
A tale of two barons


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◆The Americas
Argentina's election
The Kirchners make a dash for it
Venezuela's budget cuts
Hard landing
Brazil
Governors under fire
Canada's indigenous peoples
A policy that is outdated, expensive and unworkable
Correction: Brazil's banks


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◆Asia
Afghanistan
Reflecting on the Taliban
Afghanistan
Further into Taliban country
Japan's embarrassed opposition
Money politics, continued
Nepal under Maoism
War without bloodshed
China and Tibet
Rejoice, damn you
Nepal's royal palace
Versailles in green nylon
Australia’s foreign policy
Rudd floats an Asian balloon
Malaysia
Um, no change
The Indian Premier League
Re-hyphenated


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◆Middle East & Africa
America and Iran
The tantalising prospect of reconciliation
Iraq
Still tread softly
Israel's new government
Not as far-right as it might have been
Israel and Egypt
A chillier peace
Madagascar and Africa
A coup that is not yet irreversible


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◆Europe
Germany's Constitutional Court
Judgment days
Religious education in Germany
God and Berlin
France's ethnic minorities
To count or not to count
The Italian right
Rendering unto Caesar
The Hungarian prime minister
Gyurcsany goes
The Czech prime minister
Topolanek toppled
Charlemagne
Those exceptional British

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◆Britain
London economic summit
Gordon's Big Top
Economic performance
Snakes and ladders
Crowd control at the G20
Brace yourselves
Fighting terrorism
Getting metaphysical


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◆International
NATO and its future
Have combat experience, will travel
Correction: OECD

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◆Business
The Tata Nano
The new people's car
Inside the Tata Nano
No small achievement
Shipbuilding
Sink or swim
Oil mergers
Well matched
Mobile telecoms
Sharing the load
The internet
Connecting up
Co-operatives
All in this together
Face value
Reading between the lines


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Globalisation and trade
The nuts and bolts come apart

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◆Finance & Economics
America's toxic-asset plan
Dr Geithner's bank rehab
American banks
It takes two to tango
The dollar as a reserve currency
Handle with care
Buttonwood
Searching for value
The European Central Bank
Liquidity carrier
Japanese stocks
Wide girls
The G20 and tax
Haven hypocrisy
Economics focus
An economic bestiary
Marjorie Deane internship


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◆Science & Technology
Table-top fusion
The beast that will not die
Geo-engineering
Who ate all the algae?
Medical journals and ethics
Pity the messenger
Animal behaviour
Reputations in the mist


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◆Books & Arts
Toil, toil
The pleasures and sorrows of work
Wars, guns and votes
Democracy in difficult places
Palestinian poetry
On the waste land
The Oxford-Cambridge boat race
Shock and oar
Divorce and children
Dragons’ den
Contemporary art in Russia
Top guns


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Jade Goody


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Overview
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Asylum-seekers
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Top exporters

How China sees the world
And how the world should see China: leader

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Our weekly editorial cartoon
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The new world order
How China sees the world
The pope in Africa
Sex and sensibility
AIG and the president
Easy does it
Iran
The problem of Persian pride
Internet companies
The end of the free lunch預gain
Letters
On post-traumatic stress disorder, Barack Obama and Gordon Brown,
Pakistan, helping the poor, the Amazon rainforest, pacemakers,
recycling, emerging-market contagion

Briefing
China and the West
A time for muscle-flexing
United States
Labour mobility
The road not taken
California politics
Young man in a hurry
Taking on Congress
Obama's standing army
Virginia
Friends in high places
Charities
Taking from the givers
Electricity
Smart move
Rounding up rattlesnakes
The old enmity
Statewatch: Texas
Nowhere to hide
Lexington
The other Obama
The Americas
Mexico and the United States
Don't keep on trucking
El Salvador's presidential election
Left turn
Brazil's banks
Spread bets
Land rights in Peru
Whose jungle is it?
Chile, Cuba and Latin America
Courting Castro
Asia
Political breakthrough in Pakistan
Sharif wins a battle
Hong Kong and Macau
No politics, please
A Chinese eco-city
City of dreams
Opium in the Golden Triangle
Golden days
Burmese migrant workers in Thailand
Myanmar's overflow
An oil spill off Queensland
The Sludge Coast
Middle East & Africa
Iran's presidential choice
It could make a big difference
Burkina Faso's president
A canny chameleon
Dubai
A little more decorum, please
Madagascar
An odd way to change a government

Europe
Ireland's economy
The party is definitely over
Unrest in France
Paris in the spring
The European Union and Bulgaria
A new colonialism
Russia's economy
Poor little rich kids
Italy's opposition
New leader, old problems
Charlemagne
Fingers in the dyke
Britain
The jobless toll
A flood of misery
Welfare reform
Forward, not back
Nuclear weapons
And now for some light relief
Financial regulation
Bolting the stable door
Hospital deaths
Making them count
University fees
The only way is up
Breaking up BAA
Competition at last
Bagehot
The tiny minority
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The critical issue of safety
Proliferation and nuclear power
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Business
Agriculture
Green shoots
Industrial relations
Kidnapped
Coca-Cola and China
Hard to swallow
Information technology
Gathering clouds
The internet
Going AOL
Defence companies
In the line of fire
Technology
Six years in the Valley
Face value
Cheap, but not nasty
Briefing
General Electric
Losing its magic touch
Finance and economics
American International Group
Cranking up the outrage-o-meter
Buttonwood
Swissie fit
American banks
Sharing the pain
Financial regulation
Top watchdog
House prices
Caught in the downward current
German banking
Finance on four wheels
Microfinance
Sub-par but not subprime
Economics focus
Money's muddled message
Science & Technology
Lighting
A brilliant new approach
Dinosaurs
Our feathered friends
Parasitology
The song does not remain the same
Religion, medicine and death
But not yet, Lord
Water on Mars
Books & Arts
Handel's anniversary
Georgian splendour
The future of India
The Bangalore enlightenment
American economic intervention
Cavalry to the rescue
A British minister's diaries
Reflections of a bit-part player
Constable's early life
Finding nothing ugly
Obituary
Ali Bongo
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The jobs crisis
The London summit
The better part of valour
Barack Obama's foreign policy
All very engaging
Sudan
Compounding the crime
America and climate change
Cap and binge
Northern Ireland
Just when you thought it was safe

Letters
On transparency, sex education, Latvia, California, needles, Kenya, manufacturing

Briefing
America and climate change
Sins of emission

United States
The economy
Pursued by Obamabears
Science and the president
A new era of integrity, sort of
Barack Obama and education
The teacher-in-chief speaks
The death penalty
Saving lives and money
Africa policy
Don't expect a revolution
3D viewers
The final reel
Pennsylvania's burning mines
Fire in the hole
The border
Hoping for a silver lining
Lexington
Le vieux canard

The Americas
El Salvador's presidential election
A nation divided
Socialism in Venezuela
Feeding frenzy
Bolivia
The justice of crowds
History in Peru
Don't look back
Television in Brazil
Soaps, sex and sociology

Asia
India's election
On the trail with a megastar
Kidnapping Hmong women in Vietnam
Bartered brides
Indonesia's parliamentary election
Unencumbered incumbent
China and America spar at sea
Naked aggression
A missing Thai human-rights lawyer
More questions than answers
North Korea
Sound and fury
Afghanistan's Uruzgan province
The Dutch model

Middle East & Africa
Kenya
Next machetes, then machineguns?
Nigeria's economy
A double strike
Lagos
The Big Yam
South Africa
Shaik, rattle and release
Arab diplomacy and the Palestinians
Try to avoid embarrassment again

Europe
The state and the economy: Germany
How to restart the engine?
The state and the economy: France
Back in the driving seat
Italian justice
Silvio, the actress and the law
School killings in Germany
Not just an American horror
Turkish foreign policy
Repairing the bridge
Ruthenia
A glimpse of daylight
Charlemagne
Beware of breaking the single market

Britain
Northern Ireland
Shadow of the past
Political apathy
Of banks and ballot boxes
Illegal immigrants
All sins forgiven?
Condoning torture
Shoulder to shoulder
Public-services reform
Preparing for austerity [Britain only]
Harriet Harman
Lady in red [Britain only]
State-owned banking
Good sport [Britain only]

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International
The global crisis and the poor
The toxins trickle downward
Banks, graft and development
Dancing with despots
Russia and America
And now for a nuclear remake
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A special report on entrepreneurship
Global heroes
All in the mind
An idea whose time has come
The United States of Entrepreneurs
The more the merrier
Lands of opportunity
Magic formula
Saving the world
The entrepreneurial society
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

Business
Unions
In from the cold?
Pharmaceuticals
Merck's manoeuvres
Business in Asia
The next Great Wall
Patriotic purchasing
Flying the flag
Continental and Schaeffler
Losing its bearings
Marketing to women
Hello, girls
Face value
The long and the short

Briefing
Unemployment
When jobs disappear

Business and finance
The G20
Talking-shop-on-Thames
Regulating banks
Inadequate
China's stimulus
Got a light?
Buttonwood
The bear necessities
Credit markets
Unsavoury spread
Global insurance
The next domino?
The Madoff affair
Going down quietly
Economics focus
A Plan B for global finance

Science & Technology
Electric vehicles
Batteries now included
Climatology
Historical determinism
Climate change
A sinking feeling
Twenty years of the world wide web
What's the score?

Books & Arts
The Warsaw ghetto
From beyond the grave
Foreign aid
Voice of disenchantment
Fighting insurgencies
Reluctant warriors
John Cheever
Buttoned up
Iain Sinclair
The psychogeography of Hackney
The influence of C騷anne
Apples and oranges
Correction: Yves Saint Laurent

Obituary
Alan Landers

Economic and Financial Indicators
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Labour productivity
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The cost of living

How to stop the drug wars
Prohibition has failed; legalisation is the least bad solution: leader

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Failed states and failed policies
How to stop the drug wars
Terrorism in Pakistan
Horror in Lahore
America and Iraq
Take them home responsibly
Barack Obama's budget
Wishful, and dangerous, thinking
International justice
A warrant for Bashir
Climate change
The illusion of clean coal
Bankers
Scapegoat millionaire
Letters
On South Korea, the Czech Republic, English, ignorant politicians, liberalism, politeness, subprime loans, Antarctica, water

Briefing
Dealing with drugs
On the trail of the traffickers
The cocaine business
Sniffy customers
Levels of prohibition
A toker's guide
Drug education
In America, lessons learned
United States
Barack Obama's health reforms
The view from West Virginia
The budget and the environment
Whom the cap fits
Water in California
Dust to dust
Dollar stores
Many a mickle
Illinois politics
The outsiders
Louisiana
Diversionary tactics
Statewatch: New York
Reaping the whirlwind
Lexington
Anger management
The Americas
Brazil's economy
Reaping the rewards of indolence
Cuba
The other Castro stamps his heel
Colombia and Ecuador
An unmended fence
Asia
War in Sri Lanka
Trading danger for captivity
Terrorism in Pakistan
State of denial
Bangladesh after the rebellion
Bad or mad?
Afghanistan's presidential elections
Better than the alternative
Afghanistan's northern neighbours
Road blocks
Japan's opposition
A bruiser bruised
Vietnam's economy
In need of some snake-blood
The state of the Chinese nation
Yes, prime minister
Middle East & Africa
Hillary Clinton in the Middle East
All charm and smiles
Congo and Rwanda
A jungle alliance that may just endure
Zimbabwe's farms
Whose land?
Algeria
Steady but stale

Europe
Turkey
The enduring popularity of Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Spain and its regions
A new landscape
Top jobs in France
Elitism rules OK
France and agriculture
Back to the farm
Charlemagne
Extremist nightmares
Correction: Eastern Europe
Britain
Monetary policy
Now for something completely different
State-owned banks
The go-between
London's mayor
Getting it together
Protecting medical data
Sorry, that's personal
Scotland's drinking crackdown
Last orders
Bagehot
The odd couple
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Monitor
Shifting gears
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Recharged
Monitor
Fuelled by coffee
Monitor
Party time!
Monitor
Bone in a bottle
Monitor
A mousetrap for bacteria
Monitor
Bouncing ideas around
Monitor
Twinkle, twinkle, little laser
Monitor
A good yarn
Monitor
Revolutionary buildings
Monitor
Fair comment
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Bright sparks
Monitor
Serious fun
Rational consumer
Just click to park
Wireless charging
Adaptor die
Carbon capture
Scrubbing the skies
Case history
The rhythm of life
Video analysis
Machines that can see
Crowd modelling
Model behaviour
Brain scan
The internet's librarian
Offer to readers
Business
Mobile telecoms in the recession
Boom in the bust
The boom in mobile broadband
Priming the pipe
The crisis in the car industry
No Opel, no hope
Hyundai's surprising success
Sui Genesis
Business in China
So much for capitalism
Barbie at 50
In the pink
Face value
Game on
Briefing
Carbon capture and storage
Trouble in store
Finance and economics
Stockmarkets and dividends
Slash and burn
Japan's economy
Rebalancing act
HSBC's rights issue
Household chores
Buttonwood
The grand illusion
Euro-zone government bonds
Beating the rush
Corporate bankruptcy
Burning down the house
India's economy
Bridges to somewhere
Economics focus
Give me your scientists・
Science & Technology
Agriculture
The bees are back in town
Physiognomy and economics
About face
Vanishing twins
Haunted by the past
Physics and philosophy
I'm not looking, honest!
Books & Arts
The fall of Bear Stearns
Bearing all
Ra伃 Prebisch
Latin America's Keynes
Iraq under Saddam
Only obeying orders
French history
Revolutionary women
Shapes
Nature's patterns
The Yves Saint Laurent sale
Caveat venditor
Obituary
Conchita Cintr
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The bill that could break up Europe
If eastern Europe goes down, it may take the European Union with it:




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Eastern Europe's woes
The bill that could break up Europe
The White House and America's banks
In knots over nationalisation
Investor relations
To forecast or not to forecast?
China and Tibet
Another year of the Iron Fist
The waste industry
A load of rubbish


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On Abraham Lincoln, Argentina, Rio Tinto, savings, the stimulus package, subprime lending, environmentalism


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Ex-communist economies
The whiff of contagion
A glimpse of optimism
Green shoots


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◆United States
The government's finances
Brave rhetoric, grim reality
Voting rights for Washington, DC
A constitutional conundrum
Affirmative action
Erasing race
Age and Californian cities
Gilded age
Judicial independence
Only in America
Bad judges
The lowest of the low
Victory gardens
Digging their way out of recession
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Take heart
Lexington
Californication


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The Brazilian Amazon
Preventing pillage in the rainforest
Quebec
Fighting old battles
Colombia
Spies in trouble
The Stanford affair
An $8 billion scandal goes a long way
Correction: Brazil


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◆Asia
China and Tibet
Not much of a celebration
China and the Dalai Lama
Politically incorrect tourism
The yakuza
Feeling the heat
Cambodia's oil resources
Blessing or curse?
Bangladesh's economy
No hiding place
Bangladesh's military
Mutiny in Bangladesh
Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka
Stoking the flames
Pakistan's politics
Just like the bad old days


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◆Middle East & Africa
Somalia's civil war
Just a glimmer of hope
Somalia's demography
Little-known, dispersed and dying
South Africa
Bishop's move
Senegal
Trouble at home
Shias in the Gulf
Grumbling and rumbling
Israel's would-be government
The right has the first shot


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◆Europe
Germany
Europe's reluctant paymaster
Protests in France
Allons, enfants!
Protests in Ireland
In a stew
A spy scandal in Estonia
How many more?
Albanian politics
Time for a change?
Charlemagne
Europe's family squabbles


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◆Britain
Britain and its Muslims
How the government lost the plot
Freedom of information
For their eyes only
Bank rescues
When will we see your like again?


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◆International
Proliferation
United in defiance
The World Bank
Guilty as charged

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◆Business
Talking rubbish
You are what you throw away
Down in the dumps
A better hole
The appliance of science
Round and round it goes
Muck and brass
Less is more
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers


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◆Special Report
Corporate planning
Managing in the fog
Prediction markets
An uncertain future
European energy
Power games
Telecoms in India
The hesitant auctioneer
Software in the recession
Out on its own
News Corporation
Home alone
Google in Asia
Seeking success
Face value
A teacher for the times


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◆Finance & Economics
American banks
A ghoulish prospect
Bank capital
Stress-test mess


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◆Science & Technology
Public order
The kindness of crowds
Social networks
Primates on Facebook
Greenhouse gases
OCOck up
Psychology
Sunny side up
Homo erectus
A footprint in the sands of time


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◆Books & Arts
Corruption in Kenya
How to ruin a country
The end of the cold war
Reagan's rebellion
The life of Flannery O’Connor
All beak and claws
American canal building
Waterway triumphs
Social inequality
Always with us?
Krishna exhibition
Seduced by a flute


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Christopher Nolan

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Overview
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Metals
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Junk bonds

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The collapse of manufacturing
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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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On Brazil, banks, privatisation in Russia, broadband, Japan, Asia, London

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Pakistan
In the face of chaos
Afghanistan and Pakistan
Boots on the ground


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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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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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American diplomacy in Asia
Hillary says hello to Asia
Japan's crashing economy
Cold medicine
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Pretend you're a Westerner
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What the doctor ordered
Cambodia's Khmers Rouges on trial
Evil and the law
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The Tigers' lair


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In pieces
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A thousand cries of pain
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A new look
Starbucks
Just add water
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Liberty Media gets Sirius
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Time to change the act


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Howzat!
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Eastern European banks
The ties that bind
China's economy
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America's economy
The second derivative may be turning positive
Remittances
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Basic information
Education
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The lonely planet guide
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A paean to the female pen
Virgin Mary
Mother of God
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Poignant Punjab
Oral history in China
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Tough times ahead
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A unity government, at last
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A country adrift, a president amiss
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Recalled to half-life
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One year on
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English is coming
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The return of economic nationalism
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Venezuela
Ten mostly wasted years
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Nothing to lose but their (restaurant) chains
Zimbabwe
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Infrastructure
Be careful what you wish for
The Republicans
Reassembling the wreckage
Minnesota's Senate seat
Three months and counting
Open government
Track my tax dollars
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Wheel of fortune
Lexington
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Hugo Chｨ｢vez's Venezuela
Oblivious to the coming storm
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Profiting from virtue
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Where dinosaurs still roam


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India's election
Awaiting the democratic tide
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Terminal declined
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Hey, big spender
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Knock, knock
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The Little Red Bookshop
Press freedom in Kazakhstan
Keep it official
North Korea's belligerence
In the court of King Kim
Correction: Cambodia


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God takes a back seat
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Defiant, and doubtful
Ethiopia
A row over human rights
Turmoil in Madagascar
I'm king of the...oops
Kenya
Double trouble


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The euro area
A tricky balancing act
Food in France
Sandwich courses
The Irish economy
Reykjavik-on-Liffey
Turkey's prime minister
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Spain's rail ambitions
Ave Madrid
Amsterdam's troubled metro
A big dig
Charlemagne
Single-market blues


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Industrial action
Discontents, wintry and otherwise
Torture and the law
That curious relationship
Monetary policy
Breaking the rule book
Snowbound Britain
White-out


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The World Social Forum
Dear capitalists, admit you got it wrong
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Virtual pleasures

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Japan's electronics giants
Unplugged
Japan's labour market
Non-regular and not wanted
Executive pay
Paying the piper
Mining
Digging deep
The rise of haggling
Let's make a deal
Outsourcing
A quick fix
Online video
Hulu who?
Face value
The unrepentant salesman


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Globalisation under strain
Homeward bound
Carmakers
Too many moving parts


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Mortgage losses
Move over, subprime
Russia's currency
Down in the dumps
Japan's currency
Up and away
American Treasury bonds
Too much of a good thing
Asian stockmarkets
Bye bye sell
Fortis
What a carve-up
Corporate finance
Triple trouble
The IMF
Supersizing the fund
Economics focus
Burger-thy-neighbour policies


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Evolution
Unfinished business
The Richard Casement internship


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Liberalism
Anatomy of an idea
Iran and the West
Talking past each other
Tehran memoir
Mulberry milkshake
Charles Darwin
A life in poems
The euro
Currency affairs
Pierre Bonnard
Meditating on modernism
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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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China's economy
A great migration into the unknown


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


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

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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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Asian economies
Troubled tigers


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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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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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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
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Cleaning up afterwards
Bin it
State pension funds
The land of liabilities
Agricultural fairs
Mutton bustin' and manure
Segregation and shopping
The call of the mall
Lexington
Betrayed by Obama
The Americas
Bolivia's new constitution
A passport to Utopia
Economic policy in Mexico
Damage control
Fugitives from justice in Brazil
The madness of asylum
Religion in Canada
Wives galore
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China's flagging economy
Strong as an ox?
A defence white paper in China
White lies
Political corruption in Taiwan
Trial and error
South Korea's troubled government
Up in flames
Thailand's l鑚e-majest・law
The trouble with Harry
Thailand's Burmese boat people
Cast adrift
India and Pakistan
Diplomatic outsourcing
Middle East & Africa
Diplomacy after the Gaza war
Now get back to making peace
The Gaza Strip
Back to a kind of life
Israel after Gaza
Counting the cost
Iraq's elections
A real choice for the people
Correction: A war of words and images

Europe
France
A time of troubles and protest
East European economies
To the barricades
Spain's new unemployed
And worse to come
Russian political murders
Deaths in Moscow
Hesse's election
A strange liberal revival
Charlemagne
Iceland hunts the euro
Britain
Rescuing banks
Shorn bank shares, shaven poll ratings, shredded nerves
Robert Burns
Selling Scotland by the verse
The return of Ken Clarke
The beast is awake
Public-service broadcasting
When just one BBC is not enough
Private education
Rock or hard place?
The police
A new beat
Regulating alternative medicine
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The second act
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Dancing in the downturn
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Law v common sense
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Canada
A sticky ending for the tar sands
Brazil's army
But what is it for?
Venezuela's indigenous people
A promise unkept
Asia
Dissent in China
The year of living dissidently
Vietnam's press under pressure
Muting the messengers
Thai politics
The first hurdle
Bhutanese refugees in Nepal
Point of no return
The war on Myanmar's border
Unequal struggle
South Korea's financial prophet
Paranoid seclusions
Nepal and the United Nations
Another fine mission
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The war in the Gaza Strip
The outlines of a settlement
Hamas and diplomacy
The pressures mount
The role of the media
A war of words and images
Gaza and the laws of war
A thousand tragedies. But is it a crime?
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Albinos in east Africa
A horrendous trade
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Technology firms in the recession
Here we go again
Nortel
The bigger they come
Corporate finance
The great dilution
Business in China
Not playing
The Satyam scandal
Offshore inmates
Apple
Lost Jobs
The car industry
Bright sparks
Face value
One tough Yahoo!
Briefing
The car industry
The big chill
Finance and economics
Citigroup
A house built on Sandy
Buttonwood
In praise of volatility
The Securities and Exchange Commission
Growing insecurities
China's trade
Surplus to requirements
Europe's economy
Nowhere to hide
Insurance
Flames, claims and automobiles
Economics focus
Looking good by doing good
Science & Technology
Psychology
The price of prejudice
Animal behaviour
The song of songs
Neuroeconomics
Digitally enhanced
Deforestation and extinction
Second life
Books & Arts
American presidential history
Honest Abe, reborn
The financial crisis
Don't forget the benefits
Political thrillers
The young president
Buffalo in America
Born again
Archibald Wavell
A clever chap, and modest
Gustavo Dudamel
A “yes we can” maestro
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Richard Neuhaus
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British manufacturing
Coming in from the cold
America's budget
After the recession, the deluge
Energy in the European Union
Gas wars

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The struggle for Gaza
Where will it end?
Israel's military strategy
Two eyes for an eye


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The budget deficit
Waiting for God-only-knows-what
The new surgeon-general
Health screen
Transitional woes
Reality check
Barack Obama's BlackBerry
Subject: Russia and China
California's budget
Crimson tide
Student loans
College on credit
Consumer finance
The layaway way
Texas politics
Happy together
Lexington
Leading the lawmakers


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Politics in Brazil
Lula's last lap
Politics in Colombia
Third term temptation
Quebec's demography
The cradle's costly revenge
Housing in Argentina
Misery in their midst


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Sri Lanka
The Tigers' last stand
South Korea
Barrack-room brawls
Indonesia's economy and the election
So far so good
Land reform in China
Users and losers
India and Pakistan
Dodging the dossier
India｡ｯs traditional crafts
Looming extinction


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Ghana's election
A damned close-run thing｡ｪand a fine example to the rest of Africa
Ethiopia and Somalia
Back into the abyss?
Iraq
Sovereign, sort of
Morocco
The sacred and the profane


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Russia, Ukraine and gas
Pipe down
France's minority politicians
Ethnic troubles
Montenegro's economy
Not quite a crash
The left in Italy
Scuola di scandalo
Poland's public television
Tragedy or farce?
Charlemagne
Of antibiotics and globalisation


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Interest rates
Combating the recession
Saving jobs
Holding back the tide
The death of Sir Alan Walters
Mrs Thatcher's monetarist guru


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Libel tourism
Writ large
Nuclear safeguards
Every little helps

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Second-act chief executives
Comeback kings?
Steve Jobs
One of a kind
Corporate governance
India's Enron
Business in Indonesia
Bakrie's bounceback
Adolf Merckle
Empire lost
Corporate jets
Deeply uncool
Face value
The enforcer


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Rolls-Royce
Britain's lonely high-flier


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Emerging markets
Stumble or fall?
Banks and private equity
Roll up, roll up
Buttonwood
Yielding to none
Governance in Hong Kong
Indefensible
Risk aversion
The bonds of time
Economics focus
Drastic times


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Science policy
Blessed are the geeks, for they shall inherit the Earth
The environment
Green Bush
Astronomy
The cosmic boogie-box
Solar energy
Seeing red
Neuroscience
Sound and no fury


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Central bankers
Lords of finance
Scotland and England
Unkilting the myths
Europe's first financiers
The Genoa connection
Political posters in Lebanon
Clenched fists and AK-47s
Skiing
The white stuff
Henry Moore's fabrics
Cloth art
Amazon worldwide bestsellers
Words of warning

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　Managing the Facebookers

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　Heroic myth and prosaic failure
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　Ill winds

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Barack Obama's BlackBerry
　Subject: Wall Street
Unemployment insurance
　A safety net in need of repair
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　The tenacity of hope
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　A good vote in the angry valley
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　Don't bring me your huddled masses

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Israel and Gaza
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Guinea
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Visiting the Capitol
　Nobody does it better
Lexington
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　Tokens of utopia

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Pakistan
　United against the wrong enemy
Afghanistan
　The next surge
Thailand
　New face, old anger
China and Taiwan
　Ever cuddlier
Australian tourism
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Somalia's Islamists
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Uganda
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Geothermal power in Africa
　Continental Rift
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German neo-Nazis
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Charlemagne
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University applications
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