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◆On the cover
Inflation's back...but not where you think

Double-digit price rises are about to afflict two-thirds of the world's population:



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◆Leaders
The world economy
Inflation's back
Afghanistan
How the “good war” could fail
Diplomacy
Speaking to the enemy
Computers and the environment
Buy our stuff, save the planet
ASEAN, Indonesia and Myanmar
Forcing help on Myanmar
Medicine
Smart drugs

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◆Letters
On Frank Field, Barack Obama, Ecuador, St Sebastian, the Gulf economies, Israel, Margaret Thatcher, Russian bears

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◆Special Report
Afghanistan
A war of money as well as bullets

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◆United States
Gay marriage
The guys next door
The Democrats
Close but no cigar
The popular vote
She says count the vote―but how?
The farm bill
A harvest of disgrace
Noah on stage
Come to the ark
Body art
Tattoo you
Campus activism
Coming down from the trees
Douglas Wilder
An icon moves on
Lexington
Indiana McCain rides again
Correction: Mohegan Sun

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◆The Americas
Colombia and Venezuela
The FARC files
Colombia's media
An icon reborn
Education in Mexico
Testing the teachers
Canada
Prisoners of ambiguity

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◆Asia
The earthquake in Sichuan
China helps itself
Myanmar after the cyclone
A modest opening
India and Pakistan
Lost momentum
West Bengal
Comrades in arms
Taiwan's new president
Strait is the gate
Vietnam
Shooting the messenger
Indonesia
Not yet a dream; no longer a nightmare

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◆Middle East & Africa
South Africa and immigration
Give them a better life
Sudan
The south is on the brink too
Kuwait's parliament
It just slows things down
Lebanon
Peace for a while
Israel, Syria and the Palestinians
Two-track tango

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◆Europe
Germany's tax debate
Whether and when to cut
Txt msgng in Frnc
Parlez-vous SMS?
Georgia's election
Misha's test
Turkey and the Caucasus
A Caucasian cheese circle
Italy's government
Rome v Roma
Corruption in eastern Europe
Talking of virtue, counting the spoons
Charlemagne
Let them eat cake

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◆Britain
Housebuilders
Home truths
Abortion laws
Hard cases and slippery slopes
Coastal erosion
The wisdom of Canute
Football clubs
We won, so let's make it worse

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◆International
Spreading the atom
Stopping the wrong sort of chain reaction
Cluster weapons
Blown away
Rice
Thin gruel and hungry stomachs
Correction: Humanitarian intervention

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◆Business
Computing
Down on the server farm
Telecoms infrastructure
Here we go again?
Corporate governance
A family affair
Yellow pages
Dial I for internet
Leica
Reflex action
Asian media
Final curtain
Companies as activists
Strange bedfellows
Face value
Stepping on the gas

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◆Special Report
Inflation in emerging economies
An old enemy rears its head

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◆Finance & Economics
Global housing markets
Structural cracks
Buttonwood
Catch two-and-twenty
America's mortgage giants
Haggling on the Hill
European banks
Tiers for fears
Consumer finance in Japan
Lenders of first resort
Economics focus
On the poverty line
Award

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◆Science & Technology
Cognitive enhancement
All on the mind
Cognitive disenhancement
From he that hath not
Vaccines
A shot in the dark no more
The Casimir effect
Much ado about nothing

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◆Books & Arts
Population control
Horrid history
Computer animation
Tall tales
Geopolitics and America
The rise of the rest
New fiction
The call of the running tide
The globalisation of spin
Marketing maestros
New film
The whipcracker is back

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◆Obituary
Irena Sendler

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Counterfeit goods
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
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◆On the cover
Western finance is under attack. Yet the banking system has done much better than it is given credit for



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◆Leaders
Banks
Barbarians at the vault
Lebanon
Keep it together
Georgia and Russia
Gather round the gorge
Disasters in China and Myanmar
No time to sit back
Zimbabwe's election
A huge risk that has to be taken
Travel and tourism
Asia, beware Benidorm

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◆Letters
On food prices, China, Vietnam, the Hoosier state

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◆Special Report
Lebanon
Iran's tool fights America's stooge

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◆United States
John McCain
It won't be a walk in the woods
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
West Virginia
The phoney war continues
Urban crime
The mystery of violence
Gambling
Bringing Vegas to the east
George Bush and Texas
Meanwhile, back at the ranch
Lexington
Why not both?

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◆The Americas
Drug violence in Mexico
Can the army out-gun the drug lords?
Colombia's paramilitaries
Free trade in thugs
The Amazon
Marina marches off
Panama
The poor relation
Chile
Not so shiny

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◆Asia
China's earthquake
Days of disaster
Myanmar's cyclone
The regime is satisfied
Indian bombs
Blood in the Pink City
Pakistan
The coalition collapses
Australia
The lucky prime minister
Sri Lanka
The war dividend
Correction: Vietnam

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◆Middle East & Africa
Sudan and Chad
A bloody tit-for-tat
Kenya
Looking more closely at the killings
Zimbabwe
The opposition goes for broke
Israel and America
Leaders united in the doldrums

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◆Europe
The euro-area economy
Too good to last
France's cost of living
Purchasing-power disparity
Russia's government
New jobs, old faces
Pipelines from Russia
Dead souls
The Spanish opposition
Alone at the top
Serbia's election
Balkan end-game?
Charlemagne
Balkan exceptionalism

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◆Britain
Gordon Brown's woes
A flimsy fightback
Belize Bank
A $10m mystery

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◆International
The UN and humanitarian intervention
To protect sovereignty, or to protect lives?
The value of keeping order
A dismal calculus
Climate change
A moment of truth

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◆Business
Paradise lost
Ruptured credit
Professionally gloomy
Black mark
Make them pay
Tightrope artists
Cycle clips
Spanish steps
Paradise regained?
The next crisis
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers
Business

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◆Special Report
Pharmaceuticals
Quagmire to goldmine?
Hewlett-Packard
Now services
Private equity
All Clear?
The art market
Signs of weakness
Supply-chain management
Shrink rapped
Book clubs
The final chapter?
Aviation
Flying the flag
Face value
Return to Rio

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◆Finance & Economics
Travel and tourism
A new itinerary

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◆Science & Technology
Finance in Asia
Pots and kettles
Buttonwood
Crude threat
Insurance
Another problem parent
The battle for deposits
Your bank needs you
European banks
Austria 1, Germany 0
Microfinance
Poor people, rich returns
Mining
Sterling silver
Economics focus
Malthus, the false prophet

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◆Books & Arts
The environment
Dead water
Malaria
Resisting arrest
Animal behaviour
Cheetahs of the deep
Mobile-phone microscopes
Doctor on call
LED street lights
No smoke or mirrors

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◆Obituary
Global warming
A lot of hot air
Abu Ghraib
Tortured truth
Britain and Europe
At loggerheads
Secrets of leadership
Smartly does it
Jewellery on show
Baubles and bling
Barbara Walters
Working girl

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Mildred Loving
Correction: Albert Hofmann

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◆On the cover
Barack Obama deserves the nomination; it is not yet clear whether he deserves the presidency



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◆Leaders
The Democrats
Almost there
Cyclone in Myanmar
Myanmar's misery
Gordon Brown
The agony of Gordon Brown
The Palestinians
Still stateless after all these years
America's housing
Home truths
Russia's new president
Enter, pursued by a new bear

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◆Letters
On Colombia, Jewish refugees, currencies, Cuba, John McCain, Macedonia

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◆Special Report
Black America
Nearer to overcoming
The Palestinians
The wandering Palestinian

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◆United States
Presidential politics
The big remaining question
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
Education
Red ties and boys' pride
New York schools
Six books a week
The booming West
Grave goods
Lexington
Land of the free?

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◆The Americas
Peru
Poverty amid progress
The Dominican Republic
Two cheers for Fernández
Bolivia
Battle by referendum
Ecuador's constitution
Going nowhere

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◆Asia
Cyclone in Myanmar
No shelter from the storm
North Korea
Let them eat Juche
China and Tibet
A lama in sheep's clothing?
China and Japan
Blossoming
China's latest virus
Better safe than sorry
Smoking in Beijing
Out of puff
Pakistan
Three-way struggle

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◆Middle East & Africa
Iraq, Iran and the United States
Whose side are they all on?
Yemen
Anxious times
Zimbabwe
Mixed signals
South Africa
Scorpions stung


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◆Europe
Russia
A strange Kremlin wedding
Italian tax returns
Publish and be taxed
Serbia's election
Balkan ballot
Germany's security strategy
Thinking the unthinkable
Denmark's prime minister
When loose talk may cost a top job
Turkish media
Circulation wars
Charlemagne
Whistling in the dark
Correction: Russia and Lithuania

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◆Britain
The Conservative Party
The big Mo
Scottish politics
Another setback for Gordon
Taxing multinationals
The other tax rebellion
Ethics and the arms trade
Scout's honour

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◆International
Food prices and protest
Taking the strain
Media freedom
Hacks v beaks

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◆Business
Russia's oil industry
Trouble in the pipeline
Microsoft and Yahoo!
No deal
Mobile telecoms
Calling across the Indian Ocean
Electric vehicles
Charge!
Great Wall Motor
Hungry like the wolf
Tourism
Rebranding Australia
America's patent system
Methods and madness
Face value
Dynasty calls

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◆Special Report
Energy efficiency
The elusive negawatt

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◆Finance & Economics
American housing
Map of misery
Buttonwood
Backing greens with greenbacks
Bank lay-offs
First ink, now blood
African finance
Turning towards Mecca
Argentine lending
Who needs credit?
Economics focus
A tale of two worlds

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◆Science & Technology
Myalgic encephalomyelitis
The roots of chronic fatigue
Epigenetics
Silencing of the lambs
Lie detectors
Whose pants on fire?
Animal behaviour
Naughty nesters
Proteomics
Return to the fold

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◆Books & Arts
Richard Nixon
The fuel of power
Health care
No place to be sick
Hunting at sea
Blood and guts
Château Lafite
A mystery uncorked
Rhodes scholarships
Redemption by bequest
Philip Guston
The man who changed his mind

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◆Obituary
Albert Hofmann

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, May averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Broad money supply

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◆On the cover
The recent glimpses of a resentful, snarling China should scare the country's government as much as the world



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Politics this week
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◆Leaders
China
Angry China
France
Sarkozy's difficult year
Credit crunch
Too soon to relax
Farm subsidies
The right time to chop
Competition law
The American way of trustbusting

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◆Letters
On capital inflows, Barack Obama, Tony Blair, Turkey, medals, Silvio Berlusconi, Heathrow

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◆Special Report
Sarkozy's France
The presidency as theatre

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◆United States
Illegal drugs
Speedy decline
The Montana Meth Project
Shock tactics
The Indiana primary
More workaday than thou
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
Voting rules
Prove who you are
Campaign promises
Priming the pump
Genetics and privacy
Hands off, maybe
Police tactics
A deadly force
Lexington
Wright's wrongs

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◆The Americas
Argentina
Cristina in the land of make-believe
Canada
Not on our roads
Cuba
Committee of elders
Drug trafficking
Waving, not drowning
Venezuela
Unfraternal

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◆Asia
China
A lot to be angry about
Afghanistan
Fearful asymmetry
Pakistan's tribal areas
Dangerous deals
Japanese politics
Fukuda's botched repairs
Suicide in Japan
Death be not proud
Tonga
Unsteady as she goes
Malaysia
The winds of change

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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
The pressure on Robert Mugabe steadily mounts
African rock art
The continent's true history
Malawi
Can it feed itself?
Congo
Atrocities beyond words
Lebanon
A president at last?

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◆Europe
The European Union and Russia
Divide, rule or waffle
Direct democracy in Germany
When voters want a say
Turkish politics
An ineffective opposition
A new mayor of Rome
Right back
Charlemagne
Going Dutch

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◆Britain
Conservative economic policy
The trust question
Financial stability
Hopes of healing
Northern Ireland's economy
Hard sell
The Old Bailey online
In the dock, and on the web

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◆International
Rivers and conflict
Streams of blood, or streams of peace
North Korea and Syria
Oh what a tangled web they weave
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◆Business
American media
On the brink
Indian media
Calling the shots
Confectionery firms
A sugary mouthful
European boards (1)
Jobs for the girls
European boards (2)
Money spinners
Investment in Indonesia
One-pronged attack
Clean-technology firms
Labour pains
Face value
Take two

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◆Special Report
Investigating price-fixing
Supermarket sweep
Mergers and dominant firms
Oceans apart

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◆Finance & Economics
Global monetary policy
Ben's bind
Bank of Japan
In a pickle
Investment banking
Rank injustice
Buttonwood
The fragility of perfection
Deposit insurance
When the safety net fails
China's stockmarket
Seeing red
Mexican banks
Riding high
Economics focus
An aberrant abacus

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◆Science & Technology
Gene therapy
Seeing is believing
Innovation
Home invention
Palaeontology
Gnashers at work
Psychology
Inside a deal

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◆Books & Arts
Religion and secularism
Power points
Smyrna, 1922
End of an era
English memoirs
An invitation to the dance
New fiction
Memory and forgetting
The business of AIDS
Sex and sensibility
New film
Look behind you
Amazon worldwide bestsellers
True stories

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◆Obituary
Alfonso López Trujillo

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Internet protocol television
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Productivity

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｡n the cover
The Gulf countries are managing their wealth better during this oil boom than they did during the last one



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｡he world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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｡eaders
Gulf economies
The rise of the Gulf
Vietnam
Asia's other miracle
Chinese nationalism
Flame on
The Democrats
Swinging in the wind
Bank capital
Joseph and the amazing technicalities
Recovery at Fiat
The miracle of Turin


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｡etters
On Israel, Bertelsmann, Tibet, bitter politics

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｡pecial Report
Gulf economies
How to spend it

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｡nited States
The Democrats in Pennsylvania
No surrender
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
Campaign finance
Mammon, McCain and Obama
Death penalty
A pointless extinction
Immigration
Not very nICE
History in California
Fighting for a piece of Clio
Health
Eat, smoke and die early
Rural schools
Shrinking pains
Lexington
Only in America


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｡he Americas
A tale of two Mexicos
North and south
Cuba
Fins ain't wot they used to be
Colombia
Cousin Mario
Bolivia
Once more to the brink


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｡sia
India
Shovelling for their supper
China
Manage that anger
Indonesia
Bully pulpit
Australia
Green, no queen
Nauru
Dumped on again
The Philippines
Too many babies?
Correction: Myanmar


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｡iddle East & Africa
Iraq
Nuri al-Maliki, a dogged survivor
Saudi Arabia
Our women must be protected
The Palestinian territories
Chickens and eggs
Zimbabwe
The stalemate turns bloody


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｡urope
Cyprus
A glimmer of hope, with ice cream
Northern Italy and Alitalia
Good money after bad
Germany's generation gap
Oldies with muscle
Iceland's economy
Till debt us do part
The press in eastern Europe
Less free speech
Charlemagne
Europe's Marxist dilemma


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｡ritain
The Labour government
Beleaguered Mr Brown
London's election
Every vote counts｡ｪtwice
Credit markets
A lifeline for banks
Banks
Look Ma, no capital


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｡nternational
The UN and human rights
A screaming start
Olympic games
The ghosts of Mexico 1968

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｡usiness
Business and human rights
Beyond the ｡ｰgenocide Olympics｡ｱ
Samsung
Lee bows out
Carmaking in China
Collision ahead
Yahoo! and Microsoft
Still No
Computer security
Pain in the aaS
Lawyers in India
Legally barred
Antitrust in Europe
Race to confess
Face value
Fuld of experience
Correction: Oil and gas in Peru


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｡pecial Report
Fiat
Rebirth of a carmaker

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｡inance & Economics
UBS
Wealth mismanagement
Buttonwood
Swap shop
Interest rates
On second thoughts
Spanish housing
Counting the costa
Japanese finance
My bow is my bond
Economics focus
Bankers' trust


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｡cience & Technology
Human evolution
Before the exodus
Human reproduction
Sugar and spice...
Learning and longevity
Critical thinking
Thunder and lightning
Out of the clouds
The brain
Early warning system
Correction: Financial endocrinology


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｡ooks & Arts
Israeli documentary cinema
Belonging in Israel
The global ruling class
Billion-dollar babies
American history
Big bite
Egyptian life
An unorthodox insight
New fiction 1
Waves of pleasure
New fiction 2
The unremembered
Correction: Babylon


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｡bituary
Ollie Johnston


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｡conomic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Ireland
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Top exporters

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◆On the cover
Why food is in crisis―and what to do about it



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Politics this week
Business this week
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◆Leaders
Food
The silent tsunami
The return of Silvio Berlusconi
Mamma mia
McCainomics
One cheer for the Arizona senator
Zimbabwe
Africa's shame
Brazil
An economic superpower, and now oil too
Derivatives
Taming the beast

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◆Letters
The World Bank, Macedonia, Silvio Berlusconi, Ian Paisley, Turkey, Heathrow

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◆Special Report
Food and the poor
The new face of hunger
How countries cope
Reviving the ration card

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◆United States
Inner-city crime
Back from the brink
Crime and exoneration
In the DNA
John McCain's economics
The man with half a plan
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
Climate change
Lukewarm
The Virginia Tech massacre
Curbing guns, but not too much
Drinking
Too young to have fun
University admissions
Accepted
Lexington
A bitter pill

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◆The Americas
Colombia's president
The Uribe temptation
Paraguay's elections
Liberation politics
Canada's seal hunt
Who's the pirate?

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◆Asia
Nepal's election
The Maoists triumph
Bangladesh
A different sort of emergency
Baluchistan
Let them eat mud
Western Australia
Diggers for China
China's grain supply
The ravening hoards
The Thai police
A law unto themselves
India's Parsees
Slow breeders

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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
Crisis? What crisis?
Kenya
More nice jobs for the boys
Somalia
A hint of hope for a broken country
Iraq and the United Nations
A Kurdish conundrum
Iran
Spinning out nuclear talks
The Palestinian territories
On a wheel and a prayer

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◆Europe
Italy's election
Italy embraces Silvio, again and again
Family policy in France
Baby about-face
Spanish economy
In a slump
Russia's leadership
A double-headed eagle
Bulgaria
Dirty politics
Charlemagne
The other presidential race

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◆Britain
The internet and politics
Semi-connected
Construction cartels
Crooked builders
BAE and its critics
An inconvenient past
The Gurkhas
Trouble in the rear

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◆International
Missing persons
What the dead have to say
Muslim opinion
Just what do they dislike, and why?

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◆Business
Disney
Magic restored
General Electric
Immeltdown
Airline mergers
Trouble in the air
China's unhappy pilots
Trapped in the cockpit
European energy
Power plays
Coffee in Ethiopia
Direct from the source
Technology start-ups
Chocolate.com
Face value
Jolly gold giant

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◆Special Report
Brazil
The delights of dullness
Oil
More bounty

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◆Finance & Economics
Macquarie Group
For whom the tolls swell
Buttonwood
Still vulnerable
Derivatives
Clearing the fog
Canadian banks
Beware grannies on Facebook
Oil prices
Crude estimates
African economies
Lion cubs?
Economics focus
Krugman's conundrum

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◆Science & Technology
Cancer therapy
Stemming the tumorous tide
Alzheimer's disease
To have and have not
Nanotechnology
Silver tongues
Financial endocrinology
Bulls at work
Correction: Palaeontology

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◆Books & Arts
Steel industry battles
Forging a new world
The British in Iraq
Blood in Basra and beyond
Men, women and work
Vanilla is not the only flavour
New fiction
A tale of three women
Tony Judt
Appraiser appraised
Japanese contemporary art
Infantile capitalism
Correction: Crime fiction

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◆Obituary
Pedro Zaragoza

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Global business barometer
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Regional income distribution

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◆On the cover
America's recession may not be as severe as many fear, but the recovery could take longer-and that is dangerous: leader


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


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◆Leaders
The world economy
The great American slowdown
European security and Russia
Think pipes not rockets
China and Myanmar
Keeping the flame alight
Indian financial reform
Why Mr Rajan is right
A wireless world
Our nomadic future


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◆Letters
On Europe's carbon market, finance, food prices, Botswana's Bushmen, politics, Argentina


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◆Briefing
Myanmar
Spring postponed


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◆United States
The Democratic race
Welcome to the Super Bowl
America and Iraq
A year of surge, five years of war
Pollution
Something smells a bit fishy
Free trade with Colombia
Countdown
Judicial elections
Torts and courts
Polygamy
Children of men
Lexington
Help not wanted


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◆The Americas
Latin America's economies
A coming test of virtue
Ecotourism in Peru
Rumble in the jungle
Mexico's energy reform
Regeneration
Venezuela
Strategic move


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◆Asia
The Olympic flame
Torch song trilogy
China and Taiwan
All quiet on the eastern front?
Security for the Beijing Olympics
Orange is not the only protest
Kazakhstan
Going off the rails
Japan's politics
Advantage Fukuda
South Korea
Rites of spring
Nepal's election
Mountains to climb
Timor-Leste
Impunity reigns


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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe refuses to give up
Zimbabwe's opposition
Morganatic message
Kenya
The other dodgy election
America and Africa
Americans go a-wooing
Egypt
Not by bread alone
America and Israel
Let there be justice for all


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◆Europe
European security
Redrawing the MAP in Europe
Balkan politics
All at sea
Italian politics
Return of the jester
Depopulation of eastern Germany
Tearing itself down
German army
Guts, but no iron
Journalism in France
Pipol power
Charlemagne
Danger ahead for the mighty euro


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◆Britain
Housing market
The bubble bursts
Princess Diana
Still making headlines
The politics of the downturn
It's the economy again, stupid
Defence procurement
Goldplating new armour
School admissions
Playground politics
Youth work
Dehooding the hoodies
HIV transmission
A modern bugbear
Bagehot
The impressionists
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◆International
India and Africa
When trade winds smell sweet
Malaria and the politics of disease
One quick shot may not be enough


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◆A special report on mobility
Nomads at last
Labour movement
The new oases
Family ties
Location, location, location
A world of witnesses
Homo mobilis
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers


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◆Business
The food industry
Tightening belts
Deutsche Telekom
Bad connection
Thomson
Lights, cameras, cut
Facebook and Google
Poaching
Doing business in China
850,000 lawsuits in the making
Energy in Japan
Shocking
Oil and gas in Peru
A warm welcome
Health care
Eye-opener
Face value
Addressing the ball


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◆Briefing
The American economy
The long hangover


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◆Finance & Economics
Inflation in India
Shooting the messenger
American banks
Not so thrifty
Private equity
Restoration
The IMF
Selling the family gold
Japanese finance
The bank that could not say no
Chinese property
Cracks in the edifice
Finance in the Middle East
Gender gulf
Economics focus
Policing the frontiers of finance


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◆Science & Technology
Palaeontology
Seeing the light
Autism
Not more, just different
The origin of life
Not that sinister
Early warfare
Girls on top


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◆Books & Arts
Babylon
Ere Babylon was dust
Criminals and politicians
Who uses whom?
The bin Laden family
Between Allah and America
Israeli fiction
The good soldier
The second world war in Italy
Caught in the middle
America's performing arts
Made in Europe


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◆Obituary
Charlton Heston


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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
GDP forecasts
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Space competitiveness

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◆On the cover
Crises are endemic to financial systems. Attempts to regulate them away may do more harm than good:



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

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◆Leaders
Credit crisis
Fixing finance
Zimbabwe
The end of another African tragedy beckons
Italy's election
A Leopard, spots unchanged
Turkey's government
Courtroom drama
North Korea
Kim Jong Il's ashes
Israel at 60
The dysfunctional Jewish state

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◆Letters
On Argentina's monetary policy, screaming children, the rule of law, language, Bear Stearns

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◆Special Report
Germany's Turkish minority
Two unamalgamated worlds

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◆United States
The states' budgets
Time to turn out the lights
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
John McCain
Warrior or warmonger?
Policing in New York
NYPD blues
Smoking and drinking
Unlucky strikes
Public housing
For richer, for poorer
Lexington
Demolition derby

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◆The Americas
Foreign investment in Canada
Lie back and forget the maple leaf
Colombia
Death or freedom
The Caribbean
A storm brews
Brazil
Dilma and the goat

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◆Asia
North and South Korea
Rocket man v Bulldozer
Chinese nationalism
Land of the Yellow Emperor
Japan
Road warriors
Tibetans in Nepal
Good neighbours
Afghanistan
Putting the Hell in Helmand
Pakistan's tribal areas
Ruling the tiger park
Correction: India

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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
Morgan Tsvangirai waits for power to slip from the old tyrant
Nigeria
Another deadline goes up in flames
Ethiopia and the United States
A loveless liaison
Iraq
Maliki's knights fail to shine
Bahrain
Not so sunny for Shias

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◆Europe
Turkey
The secularists fight back
France and defence
Gaullist no more?
Ireland's prime minister
So sorry, goodbye
The Italian economy
Rival plans
Italy's election timing
Putting it off
Nordic labour markets
Where bosses will be your friends
Belarus
Dark dance
Charlemagne
The perils of three-legged races

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◆Britain
Electricity
Green and black
Terminal 5
Still a mess
Credit squeeze
Lessons of history
Children's books
Decline of the picture book

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◆International
The pope and America
Don't all hug him at once
Election outcomes
When voters settle nothing
The NATO summit
With allies like these

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◆Business
Renewable energy
German lessons
The drinks industry
Santé and Skål!
Internet advertising
The case of the missing clicks
India's fashion industry
Stepping out
Tsukiji
Fishy business
Business in the Navajo Nation
Capitalism's last frontier
Trouble at Ho-Chunk
Ho dear
Face value
The higher they climb

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◆Special Report
Financial literacy
Getting it right on the money

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◆Finance & Economics
Financial regulation
Will it fly?
Mortgage bail-outs
Itching to act; unsure what to do
Buttonwood
Hung, drawn and first-quartered
Bank capital
Rights and wrongs
The euro-area economy
Bearing up
Vietnamese shares
The fall of Ho Chi Minh City
House prices
High-rise living
Economics focus
Feet, dollars and inches

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◆Science & Technology
Genetics and lung cancer
Smoking out the smoking gene
Doping in sport
High hopes
The first Americans
Number one and number twos
Irrational economics
Look and feel
Physics and the law
Stranger than truth

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◆Books & Arts
Natural disaster
Fire and brimstone
Fighting terrorism
Fresh thought needed
V.S. Naipaul
Naked ambition
Amazon worldwide bestseller table
Laid bare
New film
Cry, beloved country
New crime fiction
Murky work

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◆Obituary
Neil Aspinall

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, April averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Foreign-exchange reserves

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◆On the cover
Whether it is Clinton, McCain or Obama, the world will still quarrel with America:



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

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◆Leaders
American foreign policy
All change?
Aviation
How to fix Heathrow
Tibet and the Beijing Olympics
A sporting chance
Banking
The regulators are coming
Argentina's taxes on food exports
Killing the pampas's golden calf

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◆Letters
On NAFTA, local government, crime, Wikipedia, Eliot Spitzer, plastic bags, buffalo meat, London

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◆Special Report
The state of NATO
A ray of light in the dark defile

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◆United States
Redesigning cities
Tackling the hydra
The Democrats
Of snipers and sniping
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
Schools and testing
Left behind
The farm bill
Long time in germination
Wolves
Fair game now
Lexington
The joys of parenthood

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◆The Americas
Argentina
The Kirchners v the farmers
Canada
Angry Anglicans
The Caribbean
The Canadian connection
Brazil
Feverish in Rio
Salsa dancing
Selling rhythm to the world

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◆Asia
China and Tibet
Welcome to the Olympics
Taiwan
Ma's horse comes in
India's civil service
A bonus for babus
Pakistan
Zardari's big tent
Criminal justice in Japan
Throw away the key
Bhutan
Voting on the king's orders

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◆Middle East & Africa
Iraq
Wobbling all over the place
Iraq
Boxing is good for reconciliation
The Gaza Strip
Hamas's battle for hearts and minds
Iran
The rites and wrongs of spring
Botswana
The southern star

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◆Europe
Italy's election
Promises, but no delivery
Rubbish in Naples
Garbage in, garbage out
Troubled Armenia
Protests continued
Hungary's economy
A Magyar mess
Slovakia's history
Textbook wars
Charlemagne
Europe makes peace with nationalism

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◆Britain
Britain and America
Anglo-Saxon attitudes
Religion and politics
Playing God
Greyhound racing
Scarcely a cloth cap in sight

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◆International
Famine, farm prices and aid
Food for thought
Rice and politics
Needed: a new revolution
Nuclear weapons
Just how low can you go?
Rainforests
Racing to hug those trees
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◆Business
Bankruptcies in America
Waiting for Armageddon
Tata, Jaguar and Land Rover
Now what?
China's steel industry
Pile up
Business in Russia
Another inspector calls
Baseball in Japan
The old ball game
Business in France
Fraternity
Wine in Australia
From quantity to quality
Wine in New Zealand
At the sweet spot
Face value
This is your captain speaking

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◆Special Report
Heathrow airport
Hemmed in at Heathrow

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◆Finance & Economics
Bear Stearns
No picnic
Buttonwood
Requiem for a prudent man
Financial markets
Still wobbling
Ecotourism and economics
Shellshock
Export restrictions
Cereal offenders
Trade and migration
How to smite Smoot
Economics focus
Divine intervention
Marjorie Deane internship
Correction: Foreign exchange

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◆Science & Technology
Ultra-fast lasers
Zapping with the light fantastic
Ball lightning
Great balls of fire!
Psychology
Sugaring the decision
Suspended animation
Smelly sleep

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◆Books & Arts
Geopolitical trends
The empires strike back
American conservatism
Opportunity missed
The Shias in Iraq
Riding the tiger
New fiction
Still lost in the wilderness
Economic ideas
Sachs appeal
Marie-Antoinette
From the garden to the guillotine

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◆Obituary
Arthur C. Clarke

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Natural disasters
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
European bond spreads

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◆On the cover
What went wrong in the financial system―and the long, hard task of fixing it



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

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◆Leaders
Wall Street
Wall Street's crisis
Tibet
A colonial uprising
Elections in Iran
Conservative or conservative?
Zimbabwe
Time for the rescue
Internet communities
Break down these walls

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◆Letters
On Colombia, asset management, Iraq, India, populism, old age

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◆Special Report
A week in Tibet
Trashing the Beijing Road

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◆United States
The Jeremiah Wright affair
The trouble with uncles
The Democrats
Inside the minds of the superdelegates
Handgun bans
Whose right to bear arms?
Virginia's exurbs
Paint them blue
Rehabilitating prisoners
A new deal
David Paterson
New York, new governor
Hispanic families
Bad news from California
Lexington
The cult of Adams

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◆The Americas
Brazil and Argentina
The tortoise and the hare
Guatemala
A test of will
Consumer electronics in Cuba
Byte by byte
Mexico
The resurrection

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◆Asia
Japan
Kamikaze politics
China
Unanswered questions
Indian politics
Supersonia
Pakistan
After the mullahs
Democracy in Afghanistan
Spoilt for choice
Malaysia
Shuffling deckchairs
Nepal
A Maoist on the hustings
Correction: Kerala's capital

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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe's election
Coming to a crunch
Iran's election
Back to first principles
Djibouti
St Tropez in the Horn?
The Comoro Islands
Send in the Afro-marines

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◆Europe
France
Sarkozy rebuked
Anglo-French relations
An entente in London
Germany and Israel
Friends in high places
Kosovo's riots
Border clashing
Turkey's secular constitution
See you in court
Free speech and Islam
Flat-earth fears
Charlemagne
The hot air of hypocrisy
Correction: London and Paris

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◆Britain
Inflation resurgent
Unwelcome lift-off
Polls and politics
Up, up and away
Nuclear energy
Hot property
McCartney divorce
Breaking up is hard to do

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◆International
Mathematics
Let's talk about figures
The World Bank
Dirty linen

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◆Business
Online social networks
Everywhere and nowhere
German corporate governance
Raising their voices
Israel's technology cluster
Land of milk and start-ups
Alitalia
Rapid descent
Diamonds in Africa
Keeping the sparkle at home
Business in Japan
Silent spring
Internet jewellers
A boy's best friend
Face value
Service is everything

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◆Special Report
The financial system
What went wrong
Investment banks
The $2 bail-out
The fallout at Bear Stearns
Sore heads
Central banks
A dangerous divergence
Buttonwood
Apocalypse now?
Commodities
A bit tarnished
Derivatives
Caveat counterparty
Foreign exchange
The yen also rises
China's stockmarket
Earnings up, prices down
Economics focus
History lesson

◆Science & Technology
The science of religion
Where angels no longer fear to tread

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◆Books & Arts
Tibet
Mountain forces
Zimbabwe
The making of a monster
The struggle between East and West
A long line of stand-offs
New American fiction
Murder in Candyland
Albania in the second world war
More than a sideshow
18th-century intellectuals
Clever girls

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◆Obituary
Lazare Ponticelli

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index (1)
The Economist commodity-price index (2)
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Taxing wages

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｡n the cover
China's hunger for natural resources is causing more problems at home than abroad



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


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｡eaders
China
The new colonialists
Tax
Not now, Darling
Credit crunch
Plugging holes
Malaysia's election
The no-colour revolution
Spain's election
Zap back


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｡etters
On America's primary elections, Japan, Israel, Russia, Jersey, potatoes, the world

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｡pecial Report
London and Paris
The rivals


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｡nited States
Exports and the economy
A few good machines
Tourism
Bargain-hunting
The Democrats
Getting fratricidal
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
Health care
No relief on the right
Illinois Democrats
Striking at the red heart
Water rows in the South
Take them to the river
City planning
Harlem reborn
Lexington
The hypocrites' club

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｡he Americas
Colombia and its neighbours
Peace in our time, on the box
AIDS in Brazil
A portrait in red
Canada
Please buy our dirty oil
The Caribbean
Crown and Anchor

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｡sia
Malaysia's election upset
Anwar overturns the apple cart
The internet and Malaysian politics
The perils of modernity
Pakistan's politics
The lion lies down with the lamb
India and Pakistan
He came in from the cold
The death penalty in Japan
Just plead guilty and die
The My Lai massacre 40 years on
Not quite forgotten
Taiwan
Where a common market is divisive
Demonstrations in Tibet
Monks on the march


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｡iddle East & Africa
Israel and the Arabs
Bracing for the big one
Sudan
Peacekeepers into the fray
Uganda
Might the Lord's Resisters give up?
Kenya
A new dawn amid the golf carts
Mali
Mud, glorious mud


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｡urope
The Franco-German relationship
The awkward partners
Ireland's prime minister
Ahern at bay
Spain's election
Back｡ｪto a new challenge
Italy's election
Bridges and other promises
Serbia's politics
Election time
Poland's economy
Work in progress
Charlemagne
The parable of the presidents

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｡ritain
Public finances
Boxed in, fingers crossed
Environmental taxes
Hot air
Shake-up at M&S
A Rose by any other name
Adam Smith
Monumental profits


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｡nternational
The UN's oil-for-food scandal
Rolling up the culprits
The illegal weapons trade
Suited and booted

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｡usiness
Business in Russia
The meaning of Norilsk
Media
Mogul v mogul
Yahoo!'s options
Deconstructing Jerry
Industry in China
Where is everybody?
Business in emerging economies
The stay-at-home giants
Law firms
Legal problems
Industrial relations
On strike, virtually
Face value
Woman of steel


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｡pecial Report
Economics and the rule of law
Order in the jungle


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｡inance & Economics
Credit markets
If at first you don't succeed
Buttonwood
Privates on parade
Welfare economics
When bribery pays
Central bank interventions
Bonding session
Commodities
Shooting up
Chinese inflation
Sweet and sour pork
Banks and climate change
The greening of Wall Street
Economics focus
Grossly distorted picture
Internship


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｡cience & Technology
Traffic jams
Turn left. No right. I mean left
Military health
War of nerves
Cell therapy
No knee-jerk reaction
Pest control
The year of the no-rats?
Pester power
Sob story


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｡ooks & Arts
Invading Iraq
Eyeing the wages of war
Irrational fear
No good at risk
New theatre
Iraq on the stage
20th-century literature
Striving for the spirit
AIDS in South Africa
A testing journey
Chinese art in Florence
Dainty, ferocious and extravagant


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｡bituary
Gary Gygax

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｡conomic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Consumer prices in the OECD
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Iceland

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◆On the cover
India's achievement is at risk because it has failed to reform its public sector



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

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◆Leaders
India's economy
What's holding India back?
Latin America
The war behind the insults
Conservation
Use them or lose them
The credit crunch
Mark it and weep
After Texas and Ohio
The Democrats' nightmare

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◆Letters
On deforestation, technology and government, malaria, Fidel Castro

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◆Special Report
India's civil service
Battling the babu raj

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◆United States
The primaries
Never say die
Fraud
Trials and tribulations
The Republicans
Ready for round two
Ethics in Louisiana
Taco Bell time
Oregon's forests
The wood and the trees
Cities
Rise of the super-mayor
Ferries
The rusting armada
Lexington
Obamaworld versus Hillaryland

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◆The Americas
Colombia and its neighbours
On the warpath
NAFTA
An unreliable ally
Entrepreneurs in Brazil
Betting the fazenda

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◆Asia
China's parliament
You have permission to think freely
India's budget
Write-offs as high as an elephant's eye
Japan's regions
The puzzle of power
Nepal
Ballot box takes wing
The Philippines
Up the creek

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◆Middle East & Africa
Israel and the Palestinians
The bloody conundrum of Gaza
Arab diplomacy
The pro-Westerners feel stumped too
Iraq and Iran
Big brother comes to town
South Africa
Skin-deep
Somalia's fighting
Hitting the right target?
Correction: Kenyan peace deal

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◆Europe
Spanish elections
The coming pain in Spain
Regional politics in Spain
Power in their hands
Russia's new president
A Putin-shaped throne
Armenia
Troubling news from the Caucasus
Northern France
Not so grim up north
American visas
Stand in line
Charlemagne
Don't play politics with the euro

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◆Britain
Britain and Europe
Rebels with a cause
Northern Ireland
The big man leaves the stage
Coming of age
You'll be a man, my son
Carbon capture and storage
Filling it all back up again

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◆International
Global Muslim networks
How far they have travelled
Fethullah Gulen
A farm boy on the world stage
The internet and government
Leaks and lawsuits
Anti-terrorist spending
Feel safer now?
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◆Business
Japan's Mittelstand
Under pressure
Porsche and VW
In the driving seat
Cars
Ford's European arm lends a hand
European trademarks
A money mountain
European energy
Neelie's deal
Business in Turkey
Mixed signals
Shipping
Heavy weather
Face value
Stopping the rot

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◆Special Report
Trade bans and conservation
Call of the wild

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◆Finance & Economics
Emerging markets
The decoupling debate
Brazil's stockmarket
Food, fuel and froth
Buttonwood
Bling fling
The credit crisis
Crunch numbers
Valuing securities
Don't mark to Markit
Australia's economy
Hawks in the outback
Fidelity Investments
Lynched
Economics focus
When the rivers run dry
Internship

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◆Science & Technology
Physics
Wanted: Einstein Jr
Websites
Hold the front page
Flooding the Grand Canyon
Wiping the slate dirty
Forestry
Protected by bars

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◆Books & Arts
The credit crunch
The pendulum swings
India's economy
Open wide
Terrorism
The evil that men do
Amazon worldwide bestsellers
Win-win-Winfrey
Physics
Facts from fiction
Titian's late period
Worth waiting for
Correction: Roman love affair

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◆Obituary
The Creature from the Black Lagoon

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, March averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Travel and tourism

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◆On the cover
Russia's new president, Dmitry Medvedev, faces an unpalatable legacy



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

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◆Leaders
Russia
Russia's uneasy handover
The Kurdish conundrum
Avoid that quagmire
Obamanomics
Hope and fear
Fund management
Trillion-dollar baby
The potato
Spud we like

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◆Letters
On farming, Barack Obama, Russia, religion, air tankers

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◆Special Report
Russia's economy
Smoke and mirrors

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◆United States
Obamanomics
Dr Obama's patent economic medicine
Health care
Running for cover
Polls
Obama by one. No, ten. No, five
The campaign trail
Primary colour
Religion
Brand disloyalty
Ethanol and water
Don't mix
The beef business
Cows down
John McCain's obstacles
No country for old men
Lexington
The Buckley effect

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◆The Americas
Canada and the United States
A fence in the north, too
Cuba
Young blood
Venezuela
Propaganda, not policy
Peru
Llamas and mash
Colombia's hostages

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◆Asia
Indian politics
Beginning the long goodbye
Romantic fiction in India
Sari-rippers
South Korea's new president
Chilly welcome
Thailand
Thaksin comes home
Pakistan
Coming to terms
Animal rights in China
A small voice calling

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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
Simba Makoni is getting up steam
Kenya
A peace deal at last
Cameroon
Another president who won't go
The Kurds
Turkey invades northern Iraq
Morocco
It isn't funny
Nigeria
It all looks horribly the same

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◆Europe
Serbia
The road of discontent
Cyprus
A Communist to the rescue
Russia's new president
The name's Dmitry
Chechnya and the north Caucasus
And they call it peace
German politics
On death and dying
Spain's election
Spanish customs
Charlemagne
Winners and losers

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◆Britain
Private education
Is it worth it?
Child abuse in Jersey
Not seen, not heard
British airports
BAA's double-whammy
The DNA database
Big, bigger, biggest

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◆International
America, Europe and the management of danger
A hazardous comparison
Nuclear proliferation
Why not just blow your whistle?
Torture and deportation
The ban stays absolute
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◆Business
Business and the environment
From geeks to greens
Health care
The bleeding edge
Video games
Attempted carjack
Business in China
On the fake take
Fashion in New Zealand
Kiwis on the catwalk
Business in France
Not so exceptional
Coal mining in Germany
Small earthquake in Saarland...
Face value
The figures man
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◆Special Report
Business in South-East Asia
The tigers that lost their roar

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◆Finance & Economics
Foreclosures in America
Searching for Plan B
Monetary policy
Oceans apart
Buttonwood
Structural fault
Standard Chartered
The decoupled bank
Bank of Japan
Mood swings over Muto
Risk management
Next year's model?
Economics focus
In the stocks

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◆Science & Technology
Antidepressants
Hope from a pill
Diagnostics
Winds of change
Forensic science
Telltale hairs
Sea gliders
Run silent, run green

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◆Books & Arts
Cultural diplomacy
Soft power and a rapturous ovation
The human brain
What a piece of work
The Bush legacy
War horse
John Milton
Heavenly muse
History of the potato
Wonder-food

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◆Obituary
Baba Amte

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The brain drain
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Patent filings

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◆On the cover
As Castro steps down, rue the damage he has done, but lift the embargo against a sad, dysfunctional island:



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

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◆Leaders
Cuba, Latin America and the United States
Castro's legacy
The world economy
Japain
Pakistan
Where voters are heroes
Hollywood and the internet
There will be blood
The Balkans
Kosovo, controversially free at last
Northern Rock
Now make it work

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◆Letters
On Afghanistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Nicolas Sarkozy, Gaza, American populists, political correctness

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◆Special Report
Japan's pain
Why Japan keeps failing

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◆United States
The Democrats
The end draws nigh
Texas
Hillary's last stand
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
The Republicans
McCain turns his sights on Obama
Mormons
Gnashing their teeth
America's most vengeful prosecutor
You've got mail
Surveillance
Own goal
Cities and hospitals
Mayo with everything
Lexington
The newest frontier

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◆The Americas
Cuba
The comandante's last move
The United States and Cuba
Movement in Miami
Brazil
Whodunnit?

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◆Asia
Pakistan's election
Out with the president's men
Health care in China
Losing patients
India's fake doctors
Quackdown
Japan's pornography laws
Fleshing it out
Australian river-management
Not so gently down the stream

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◆Middle East & Africa
Iran
New parliament, new policies?
The Palestinians
Split by geography and by politics
Syria
Cultural diversity v Arab purity
The Gulf
Cash is going to the poor, too
Kenya
Still stalled on the edge
Chad
The aftermath

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◆Europe
Kosovo
The world's newest state
German tax scandals
The disgrace of Germany AG
Armenia
Out of Armenia, something new?
French foreign policy
Club Med
Italy
Pro-life, or pro-Berlusconi?
Charlemagne
Ask a silly question

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◆Britain
Nationalising Northern Rock
A bank by any other name
Northern Rock's future
In the state's tender hands
Multicultural backtracking
The search for social glue
Reporting suicide
Beware of imitations

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◆International
Global health
The side-effects of doing good
Refugees from Iraq
Less than generous
The World Council of Churches
A house still divided

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◆Business
Agriculture
The next green revolution
French broadcasting
A fuzzy picture
Business in China
Inevitable collision
Wal-Mart
Always low prices
Business in America
Where there's muck
Solar energy
The power of concentration
Face value
Mr High-speed Europe

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◆Special Report
Hollywood and the internet
Coming soon

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◆Finance & Economics
Bond insurers and the markets
Splitting headaches
Buttonwood
Beyond reason
Commodities
What downturn?
Asian price controls
In a fix
Commercial property
Taking Manhattan
Banks and accounting
More holes than thou
Deutsche Bank
Snakes and ladders
Economics focus
Well-dressed thieves

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◆Science & Technology
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
And now here is the virus forecast
Human evolution
Moral thinking
Climate change
Sour times
Pollution
A poison Pill

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◆Books & Arts
Rural idylls
Under the greenwood tree
United Nations
A brave man's journey
Economics
How to get a lover and win at poker
Poverty
Yogurt or cucumber?
New fiction
To love and to hate
British journalism
Hacks at work
American currency
Lovely lucre

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◆Obituary
Steve Fossett

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

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◆On the cover
It is now time for America to evaluate Obama the potential president, not Obama the phenomenon



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

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◆Leaders
Barack Obama
But could he deliver?
The world economy
In search of an insurance policy
Technology and the public sector
Government offline
Church and state
Sever them
Aviation
The need to shrink

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◆Letters
On America's GDP, hunger, Nepal, military tankers, Northern Ireland, Rudy Giuliani, Belgian mathematicians

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◆Special Report
China's infrastructure splurge
Rushing on by road, rail and air
America's interstate highways
America's splurge


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◆United States
The Democratic race
His to lose
The Republican race
Cannon to the right of him
Military commissions
The Guantánamo six
The death penalty
So long to Old Sparky
Urban flight from Los Angeles
Straight outta Compton
Hannah Montana
The UnBritney
The Mafia
End of the Gambinos?
Lexington
A declaration on independents

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◆The Americas
Oil in Venezuela
Exxon's wrathful tiger takes on Hugo Chávez
Belize
The squid and the whales
Mexico
Big, expensive and weirdly spineless
Argentina
Party time
Peru's hotel industry
Killing the tourism goose

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◆Asia
Pakistan's election
The posthumous poll
China's farmland
This land is my land
Taiwan's National Palace Museum
Treasure island
Timor-Leste
Dawn raids
The Japan Sumo Association
Heavy hitters
Myanmar
If voting changed anything
The Maldives
Sea, sun and jihad
Malaysia
Snap! It's an election

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◆Middle East & Africa
Iraq
The enigma of Muqtada al-Sadr
Lebanon
The world's most elusive terrorist
Egypt
A bit more religious freedom
African football
A happy taste of the future
America in Africa
Doing good, quietly
South Africa's economy
Tighten your belt

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◆Europe
Europe's economies
Dangers ahead
Eastern Europe's economies
Coming in to land
Turkey and Islam
Veils of half-truth
Kosovo's independence
A state is born. Or so say some
Spain's election
Rivals in profligacy
Russia and its history
A Byzantine sermon
Charlemagne
Farm follies revisited

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◆Britain
Political manoeuvres
The need for speed
Taxing rich foreigners
What did you do in the non-dom wars?
Anglicanism
The gathering storm
Cathedral finances
Helping those who help themselves

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◆International
Faith, law and democracy
Defining the limits of exceptionalism
The West and Russia
Lights, camera and a different ending
Politics and sport
High hurdles

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◆Business
Aviation
A normal industry?
Mobile telecoms
Small, but disruptive
Consumer goods
Cleaning up
The Hollywood writers' strike
The show goes on―for now
Class-action lawsuits
Lerach and ruin
Takeover battles
Just say no
Activist investors in Japan
Samurai v shareholders
Face value
Mittalic magic

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◆Special Report
The electronic bureaucrat
Look it up on the web
The good, the bad and the inevitable
Notional Health Server
Making it happen
Identity parade
E for express
The road to e-democracy
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

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◆Finance & Economics
The world economy
A stimulating notion
Asian budget finances
Poles apart
Buttonwood
Hedge podge
UBS and Credit Suisse
For richer, for even richer
New blood at UBS
The outsiders
Insurers
Unsurance
Stockmarkets
Dow wager
Economics focus
From Mao to the mall

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◆Science & Technology
Metabolic syndrome I: diabetes
The battle of the bulge
Metabolic syndrome II: obesity
Sweetness and light
The price of conservation
The unkindest cut
Nanotechnology
Casting a long line
The Richard Casement internship

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◆Books & Arts
Rome and the Barbarians
The stranger in their midst
Civilians in war
How best to protect them
Benazir Bhutto
Her last words
New fiction
Bugs' life
Vladimir Nabokov
Imagination ablaze
New film
The living daylights

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◆Obituary
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Football wealth
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Chances of becoming vice-president