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The collapse of manufacturing
The financial crisis has created an industrial crisis. What should governments do about it?:


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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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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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Alison Des Forges


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Slovakia
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Aid

To the rescue: The trouble with Obama's plan
This week marked a huge wasted opportunity in the economic crisis: leader

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Politics this week
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Leaders
Saving the banks
The Obama rescue
Bank bonuses
Sound and fury
Israel and the Arabs
Stalemate all around
Electronic books and newspapers
An iTunes moment?
The Balkans
A year in the life of Kosovo
The middle class in emerging markets
Two billion more bourgeois
Letters
On Thailand, finance, senators, Russia, east Europeans, the economic crisis, Norway, taxpayers, Martha's Vineyard

Briefing
America and Israel
Will the relationship change? Yes it can
Israel's election
I won. No, I won
United States
The politics of the recession
Gloom offensive
The National Security Council
Running the world
South Carolina
You can keep your money
The NAACP at 100
Much still to do
Philadelphia
A Nutter crisis
Politicians on Twitter
Tweeting the people
Environmental politics
Tree-huggers v nerds
Sex education
Just say no
Lexington
The war over Lincoln
The Americas
Rebuilding Haiti
Weighed down by disasters
Brazil's oil industry
Plunging in
Canada and NAFTA
No mariachis, please
Antarctic tourism
Waiting for another Titanic
Asia
Australia's wildfires
The burning bush
America and Afghanistan
Changing the guard in Kabul?
Sri Lanka's war
To the bitter end
Taiwan's economy
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Drought in northern China
The rainman comes
Middle East & Africa
South Africa's economy
Tough times ahead
Zimbabwe
A unity government, at last
Uganda
A country adrift, a president amiss
Iran's presidential election
Back to the future?

Europe
France and NATO
Back to the fold?
A German government shuffle
Taking the Glos off
Nuclear power in the Nordic countries
Recalled to half-life
Italy and the right to die
Death in Udine
The western Balkans
A stuck region
Kosovo's independence
One year on
Charlemagne
English is coming
Britain
The economy
Britain's fallen star
Bankers at bay
Open season
Shipbreaking
Breaking up is hard to do
Grammar schools
Who goes where?
Bagehot
The bloodhound versus the pimpernel
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Burgeoning bourgeoisie
Who's in the middle?
Beyond Wisteria Lane
What do you think?
Notions of shopkeepers
The other Moore's law
Suspended animation
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Offer to readers
Business
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Cinderella story
Rio Tinto and Chinalco
Undermined
The truck industry
A long haul
Corporate etiquette
Manners maketh the businessman
Face value
Back to the future
Briefing
Irving Fisher
Out of Keynes's shadow
Finance and economics
America's banking crisis
Worse than Japan?
America's bank bail-out
Dashed expectations
Buttonwood
A lament for savers
Santander and BBVA
The Spanish derby
Japan's brokerages
Anything but cordial
Private equity
Return to earth
Temasek
Chip off the new block
Economics focus
Pharaoh capitalism
Science & Technology
Animal behaviour
Decisions, decisions
Greenhouse gases
Accounting from above
Predators and prey
Hunting restrictions
Carnivores' teeth
Tooth and claw
Correction: Evolution
The Richard Casement internship
Books & Arts
Counter-terrorism in America
NYPD's fighting force
Living with the bomb
Better safe than sorry
American history
Freedom痴 messy triumph
Andr・Brink's memoir
For better or worse
New fiction: Abraham Verghese
Under the knife
Mongolia's bloody baron
Mad and bad
典he War of the Roses・ Cate and the king
Obituary
Rose Davis
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Football wealth
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The return of economic nationalism
A spectre is rising. To bury it again, Barack Obama needs to take the lead:




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The return of economic nationalism
A spectre is rising. To bury it again, Barack Obama needs to take the lead:


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｡eaders
The world economy
The return of economic nationalism
The euro
High tensions
Venezuela
Ten mostly wasted years
Japanese business
Nothing to lose but their (restaurant) chains
Zimbabwe
Wait and see


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On the British army, Russian mortality, female executives, Valley Forge, shareholders, Rolls-Royce, delays


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Divorce
Money in misery

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｡nited States
Economic policy
Can the centrists hold?
The new president's plans
Stealth care
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
Statewatch: Nevada
Wheel of fortune
Lexington
Another two bite the dust


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｡he Americas
Hugo Chｨ｢vez's Venezuela
Oblivious to the coming storm
Uruguay and Argentina
Profiting from virtue
A Brazilian political boss
Where dinosaurs still roam


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｡sia
India's election
Awaiting the democratic tide
Malaysia's airport controversy
Terminal declined
Australia's economic stimulus
Hey, big spender
Myanmar and the United Nations
Knock, knock
Ideological debate in China
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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｡iddle East & Africa
Israel
Politics not quite as usual
Voting in Iraq
God takes a back seat
Iran｡ｯs 30-year-old republic
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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｡urope
The euro area
A tricky balancing act
Food in France
Sandwich courses
The Irish economy
Reykjavik-on-Liffey
Turkey's prime minister
Temper tantrums
Spain's rail ambitions
Ave Madrid
Amsterdam's troubled metro
A big dig
Charlemagne
Single-market blues


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｡ritain
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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｡nternational
The World Social Forum
Dear capitalists, admit you got it wrong
Cyber-hedonism
Virtual pleasures

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｡usiness
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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｡inance & Economics
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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｡cience & Technology
Evolution
Unfinished business
The Richard Casement internship


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｡ooks & Arts
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
Correction: The YSL/Pierre Bergｨｦ sale


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｡bituary
Anastasia Baburova

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The Economist poll of forecasters, February averages
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Asia's shock
The slump in East Asia was made at home as well as in the West




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Asia's sinking economies
Asia's suffering
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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On George Bush, bankruptcy laws, Brazil's border, lawsuits, Scotland, Helen Suzman, corporate jets

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China's economy
A great migration into the unknown


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｡nited States
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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｡he Americas
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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｡sia
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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｡iddle East & Africa
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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｡ritain
Britain's armed forces
Losing their way?
Rescuing carmakers
Mandy's promise
Scottish politics
Budget show-stopper


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

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｡usiness
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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｡inance & Economics
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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｡cience & Technology
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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｡ooks & Arts
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
Correction: Gｨｦrard Prunier


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｡bituary
John Mortimer


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Inside the banks
Blank cheques, bankruptcy, nationalisation: the options are dire, but governments must choose between them: leader

The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon
Leaders
The future of finance
Inside the banks
The inauguration
Yes you must
After the Gaza war
Peace now?
Ex-communist reform
Mass murder and the market
Space travel
Mars rising?
Letters
On the sea, evolutionary psychology, health care, Plato, Africa, economics

Briefing
Norway and the environment
Binge and purge
United States
Barack Obama's inauguration
And now to work
Inaugural balls
Move over, Texas
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
Asia
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
But does it work?
Bagehot
An unaffordable luxury
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The growing, and mysterious, irrelevance of al-Qaeda
NATO
Who can unite the allies?
Development
Fairly happy birthday
Public health
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A special report on the future of finance
Greed預nd fear
Wild-animal spirits
In Plato's cave
When markets turn
How to play chicken and lose
The uneven contest
Fixing finance
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers
Business
The Wallenbergs
The ties that bind
The car industry
An Italian lifeline
LG v Samsung
Looking Good?
Corporate write-downs
The goodwill, the bad and the ugly
L丹r饌l and Nestl・
In pursuit of beauty
Cosmetics in the downturn
Lip reading
Face value
The first epistle of St Bill
Award: Jonathan Rosenthal
Briefing
Global economic imbalances
When a flow becomes a flood
Finance and economics
Global banks
Another fine mess
Bank capital
Fishy stock
Sovereign-wealth funds
From torrent to trickle
Buttonwood
Beware of Greeks bearing gilts
Japan
Early in, early out
Depreciating currencies
The money-go-round
Economics focus
The spectre of nationalisation
Science & Technology
Flexible display screens
Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me
Epigenetics
Mysterious ways
Psychology
Motivating minds
Correction: Cortisol
Books & Arts
Charles Darwin
A natural selection
Central Africa
Bloody history, unhappy future
Carla Del Ponte
Madame Prosecutor
Profits and charity
How to be bold
Paul Dirac
Theoretical physics
Sundance film festival
Underwater treasures
Obituary
Gaston Lenre
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Overview
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Gold production
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Big Mac index

Renewing America
George Bush has left a dismal legacy, but Barack Obama can do much to repair the damage: leader

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Politics this week
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Leaders
The 44th president
Renewing America
Sri Lanka
Chronicle of a death foretold
The Gaza war
Long past time to cease fire
World economy
Accelerating downhill
Britain's credit-guarantee plan
Buddy, can you insure a loan?
Technology in the recession
Less is Moore
Letters
On music, the Arab-Israeli conflict, William James, risk, shopping, Generation Y

Briefing
George Bush's legacy
The frat boy ships out
United States
The transition
Ready for Day One
Preparing for the inauguration
Huddled masses
Hillary Clinton at State
Not necessarily a team of rivals
Adult literacy
The Readers
The Rod Blagojevich saga
The second act
New wilderness
Where the wild things are
Parties
Dancing in the downturn
Lexington
Law v common sense
The Americas
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
Middle East & Africa
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?
The charges against Jacob Zuma
Standing by their man
Albinos in east Africa
A horrendous trade
Business
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
Obituary
Richard Neuhaus
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US financial bail-outs
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Pensions in Asia

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The hundred years' war
How growing rejectionism, the rise of religion, a new military doctrine and a new cold war keep peace at bay




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Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

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The Arabs and Israel
The hundred years' war
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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On Gaza, India, Tintin, chilies, William Tyndale, Rod Blagojevich

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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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｡nited States
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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｡he Americas
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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｡sia
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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｡iddle East & Africa
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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｡urope
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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｡ritain
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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｡usiness
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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｡inance & Economics
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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｡cience & Technology
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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｡ooks & Arts
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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｡bituary
Helen Suzman

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　From heroic to farcical
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　The next surge
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Who's for the hot seat?
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Eating carbon
Genetic disease and evolution
Bad old genes
Neurology
Light revival


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｡bituary
A book of silence
Out of this world
The net generation
The kids are alright
War surgery in Iraq
Standard operating procedures
The making of ｡ｰGray's Anatomy｡ｱ
Fearfully and wonderfully made
New fiction
Stewart O'Nan
Georgian treasure
Ancient bling


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｡conomic and Financial Indicators
Miriam Makeba


Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Vacancies
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Oil demand

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｡n the cover
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon



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

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｡eaders
America's election
Great expectations
Derivatives
Giving credit where it is due
Climate change
Green, easy and wrong
British bank mergers
Call it off
Spain
After the fiesta
Heathrow's future
The right side of the argument


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｡etters
On opinion polling, Central America, currency boards, confidence, Georgia, Spain, language, politics

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｡pecial Report
Challenges facing Barack Obama
Obama's world
The economic crisis
Wolves at the door


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｡nited States
The presidency
Signed, sealed, delivered
A time to laugh...
Confetti and hot dates
...and a time to weep
Scenes from a wake
Congress
Happy days for Democrats
Gubernatorial races
No time for a novice
The Republicans
Palin for 2012!
Ballot initiatives
Dispatches from the culture wars
State legislatures
Down at the bottom
Lexington
The unhappy warrior


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｡he Americas
Brazil
The credit crunch reaches Brazil Inc
Bolivia and the United States
Non grata
Religion in Latin America
Hola, Luther


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｡sia
Taiwan and China
Resisting China's charm offensive
China and Sudan
There be dragons
Tibet
Britain's suzerain remedy
Japan and its history
The ghost of wartimes past
Bangladesh
The nice side of democracy
The war in Pakistan
Predator and prey
Pakistan and Barack Obama
Barracking
Malaysia
Enter Najib, with baggage


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｡iddle East & Africa
Congo
Murder, muddle and panic
South Africa
A new party
Africa
Jet-setting to business as usual
The Gulf states
Caught in the middle but still perky


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｡urope
Russia
Getting Medvedev's message
Estonian spies
Fog in the Baltic
Germany's Social Democrats
A mess in Hesse
Fragile Bosnia
The break-up danger
Transvestites in Turkey
Gender-benders
Charlemagne
Russian lessons


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｡ritain
Gauging the recession
How deep and how long?
Heathrow
Third-runway blues
Banks and capital
Reshaping the landscape
Trump's Scottish venture
Birdie or bogey?


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｡nternational
Cities and growth
Lump together and like it

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｡usiness
The morning after
Zapatero's gambits
How much is enough?
Banks, bricks and mortar
In search of a new economy
A cooler welcome
The Spanish legion
The perils of parochialism
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers


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｡pecial Report
Clean technology in the downturn
Gathering clouds
Business in Japan
Criss-crossed capitalism
Motorola and Sun
Icons no more
Transport in Italy
Trains v planes
Blogging
Oh, grow up
Companies and social networks
Losing face
Face value
Raging bull


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｡inance & Economics
Credit derivatives
The great untangling


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｡cience & Technology
The euro area
All fall down
Eastern Europe
Smouldering
Barclays and Deutsche Bank
Cry freedom
Oil
Well prepared
Buttonwood
Clare and present danger
India's monetary policy
Traffic duty
Asian credit markets
Undergoing repair
Economics focus
The global slumpometer
Award: Philip Coggan


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｡ooks & Arts
Treating tumours
Golden slingshot
Alternative energy
Is it plane?
Biodiversity
Forest-friendly farming
Pest control
United we fall


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｡bituary
Prince Bandar bin Sultan
Larger-than-life diplomacy
Europe 1900-14
The vertigo years
Colonel Bill Eddy
An earlier envoy
Patty Hearst
Guns 'n' berets
Toni Morrison
Mercy mission
Martｨｪn Ramｨｪrez
Spit and crayons


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｡conomic and Financial Indicators
Studs Terkel