英国The Economist（エコノミスト） 発売日・バックナンバー

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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

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◆On the cover
The Republicans, at least, seem to have found a decent candidate



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

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◆Leaders
America's election
Half-way there
Snowbound China
Megaphone apology
Technology and development
The limits of leapfrogging
Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google
Giants in combat
Kenya's tragedy
Stop this descent into hell

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◆Letters
On corporate social responsibility, Keynesian economics, Taiwan, business, wine

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◆Special Report
After Super Tuesday
A fighter in search of an opponent
The road to the Democratic nomination
The great delegate hunt begins

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◆United States
The economy
The geography of recession
Rescuing Kalamazoo
A promising future
The budget
For the bin
Crime
On foot, bike and Segway
Architecture
You're history
Snowmobiling in Yellowstone
Where the Arctic cats roam
Lexington
The people versus the powerful


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◆The Americas
Brazil
Happy families
Simón Bolívar
Time to liberate the Liberator
Chile
The slow lane
Colombia
Facing down the FARC
Canada
Gangland

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◆Asia
Afghanistan and NATO
Where the sniping has to stop
China's weather
Frozen assets
Iraqis in China
The ecumenism of commerce
China and Myanmar
Our friends in the north
Bangladesh
Looking for the exit
India's Christians
The cross they bear
Sri Lanka
Not much to celebrate
Bougainville
Explosive mines

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◆Middle East & Africa
Kenya
Ethnic cleansing in Luoland
Kenya and China
The sound of silence
Zimbabwe
Simba's roar
Chad
A regime saved, for the moment
The Arab media
How governments handle the news
The Gaza Strip
Back to abnormal

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◆Europe
Serbia
The spectre over Belgrade
Montenegro's leadership
A Balkan survivor
Italy's election
They're off, again
Islam in the Netherlands
Wild thing
France's government
The unpopular president
Political wives
For better, for worse
Charlemagne
Colonial baggage

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◆Britain
Dealing with drug addiction
Hard to swallow
British films
A fistful of sterling
Privacy and politicians
Bugbears all round
Interest rates
Bankwatch

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◆International
Smoking
How to save a billion lives
Suicide-bombers
Just what are they dreaming of?
The internet
Of cables and conspiracies
Correction: Western Sahara

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◆Business
Microsoft v Google
When clouds collide
Mining mega-mergers
Some miner concerns
Samsung
Losing its shine
Kenya's flower industry
Roses are red
Business in Japan
Food for thought
India's film industry
Bollywood rising
Auction houses
Playing favourites
Face value
Disruption of service

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◆Special Report
Technology in emerging economies
Of internet cafés and power cuts

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◆Finance & Economics
The credit crisis
Financial engine failure
Credit-rating agencies
Restructured products
Buttonwood
Bear necessities
Société Générale
The rogue rebuttal
The IMF downsizes
It's Mostly Firing
Insider trading
Too well connected
An idea for Lent
Carrot and stickK
Economics focus
Chain of fools

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◆Science & Technology
Demography and genetics
Kissing cousins, missing children
Evolution
Human races or human race?
Seismology
Plumbing the depths
Self-generated energy
Power from the people
The Richard Casement internship

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◆Books & Arts
The future of Asia
Eastern approaches
Genetic engineering
Conceiving the future
Amazon worldwide bestsellers
Heavy hitters
Fiction
Self-knowledge and self-help
Alexander Rodchenko
Pictures and pain
Peter Doig
In the woods

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◆Obituary
Marie Smith

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

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◆On the cover
Iran's ayatollahs have wriggled off the nuclear hook, but there is a way to put them on again

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

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◆Leaders
Nuclear proliferation
Has Iran won?
The death of Suharto
Epitaph on a crook and a tyrant
Financial regulation
Repairs begin at home
America's election
Once again, the greatest show on earth
The Gaza Strip
Hamas won't go away
Italy's government
Unsteady as she goes

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◆Letters
On space, “uneducated” Americans, emissions, energy prices, Jérôme Kerviel, Shakespeare, politics

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◆Special Report
Iran's nuclear programme
As the enrichment machines spin on

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◆United States
The Republicans
Goodbye, Rudy Tuesday
The Democrats
Where will the wind blow?
Barack Obama's organisation
The ground war
California
The big one
Campaign tools
A-twitter
Clean coal
Up in smoke
A vanishing South
Gullahs v golfers
Lexington
George Bush's last grandstand

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◆The Americas
Mexico
Marching as to war
The Caribbean
Sun, sea and murder
Venezuela
The mouse that roared

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◆Asia
Vietnam's economy
Grappling with success
China's bleak mid-winter
A cold coming
Afghanistan's tribal complexity
In the dark
Pakistan
On edge
Australia's aborigines
Stolen birthrights

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◆Middle East & Africa
Kenya
More mayhem than mediation
Congo
Peace at last?
Israel, Egypt and the Gaza Strip
The shifting balance of power
Gaza
A Hamas hardliner
Gaza and Kenya
Young, alive but not very heaven
Israel's war in Lebanon
A prime minister gets away with it
Lebanon
Sliding back to civil war?


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◆Europe
Italy
Berlusconi redux?
German state elections
Hessen lesson
Russia's presidency
The pseudoelection
Poland's past
Sleeping dogs that won't lie
Turkey, the Kurds and Islam
A religious revival
A new silk road
The return of the scarves
Charlemagne
Toy story
Corrections: Spanish bishops and eastern European pipelines

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◆Britain
The British army
Friendly fire in Afghanistan
Sleaze in politics
The hits just keep on coming
Failed banks
Avoiding the next Northern Rock
Northern Ireland's victims
Grieving and politics

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◆International
UN law
Coming up trumps
Scientology
Fair game
Malaria
Net benefits
Telex
A faint ping

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◆Business
The internet in China
Alternative reality
Boeing v Airbus
This time it's war
Pharmaceuticals
Shock to the system
Twenty20
Jiminy cricket!
Cocoa farming
Fair enough?
Electricity in South Africa
The dark ages
Face value
The testing of long-term Eddie

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◆Special Report
Unilever and emerging markets
The legacy that got left on the shelf

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◆Finance & Economics
Société Générale
No Défense
French capitalism
Biting the hand that feeds it
American interest rates
Aggressive activism
Buttonwood
Heart of Glass
Exchanges
Gulp, swallow, gulp
Economic statistics
Odd numbers
Credit derivatives
Gross exaggeration
Banking in Japan
A cash machine
Economics focus
The in-betweeners

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◆Science & Technology
Electricity storage
Ne plus ultra
Diet and behaviour
Eat it up and be a good boy
Drug testing
The invisible man
Linguistic evolution
Received pronunciation
The Richard Casement internship

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◆Books & Arts
Al-Qaeda
How jihad went freelance
Social entrepreneurs
Agents of change
Mathematics
Mirror games
Edgar Allan Poe
The blasted soul
Collecting art
Not just an eye for a bargain
Sexual fantasies
Secret cinema

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◆Obituary
Suharto

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Child mortality
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Official reserves

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◆On the cover
Panic in the markets is scary. Among policymakers it makes things worse



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

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◆Leaders
The markets
It's rough out there
Northern Rock
Hocking the Rock
Private spaceflight
Virgin birth
Thailand
Good riddance
Serbia's future
No place else to go

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◆Letters
On migration, the National Health Service, Chinese exports, Bruce Forsyth

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◆Special Report
The world's silver lining
Somewhere over the rainbow

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◆United States
Race and the Democrats
The cooks spoil Obama's broth
The stimulus package
Full speed ahead
Barack Obama's church
Holy moly
The Republicans
McCain builds momentum
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
Health care costs
Boon or bane?
Fred Thompson bows out
Lights, camera, curtains
Racing
All bets may be off
Land use in Colorado
Where gas comes cheap
Lexington
Off the leash

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◆The Americas
Canada
The automaton goes on and on
Mexico and NAFTA
Tariffs and tortillas
Brazil
Wolf pack
Argentina
Stop all the clocks

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◆Asia
Environmental protection in China
Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air
Thailand's drug wars
Back on the offensive
Malaysia
Indian mutiny
Whaling
Salty shepherds
Tourism in Nepal
From treks to sex
Afghanistan
Paddy re-enlists

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◆Middle East & Africa
The Gaza Strip
Busting the blockade
Kenya
No let-up in the killing
Central African Republic
Beyond a failed state
Nigeria
Democracy by court order


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◆Europe
Spain
Zapatero's bear fight
Italy's rocky government
On its way out
Italian art treasures
Coming home
Eastern Europe, America and Russia
Pipedreams
European energy
Hot air
French reforms
Attali the Hun
Charlemagne
The in and out club

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◆Britain
Economic nerves
Nothing to smile about
Political-party funding
Hain walks the plank
The poor
Undeserving
Britain and Europe
Push-pull
Northern Ireland
The old order changeth

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◆International
Environment and development
How green is their growth
The Vatican and Islam
A flustered flock of pigeons
Malnutrition
The starvelings
Military helicopters
Getting boots off the ground

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◆Business
The advertising market
Hard sell
Australian media
Likely lads
The pharmaceutical industry
The bitterest pill
European business schools
Insead out?
Wireless industry
Airwaves for sale
Chinese hotels
Room at the inn
Face value
High Streiff

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◆Special Report
Commercial space flight
Starship enterprise: the next generation
Spaceflight medicals
Suited for space

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◆Finance & Economics
Bond insurers
Buddy, could you spare us $15 billion?
Global markets
A wild ride
The Federal Reserve
Going it alone
Pakistan's stockmarket
The world's most dangerous haven
Decoupling 1: Emerging Asia
An independent streak
Decoupling 2: Japan
Unable to fend for itself
Société Générale
Socked, not gently
Economics focus
Faulty powers

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◆Science & Technology
Artificial life
Nearly there
Microelectronics
Eyeing up a new technology
Organ transplants
A successful mixture
Physiognomy and success
Face value

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◆Books & Arts
Rupert Murdoch
Spend some, then spend some more
Doing business in China
By the book
Chinese and Indian capitalism
Shifting the balance
New film: “Katyn”
Unburied dead
New fiction
The winds of war
Parmigianino at the Frick
One and only

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◆Obituary
Bobby Fischer

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

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◆On the cover
The biggest worry about rich Arab and Asian states buying up banks is the potential backlash



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

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◆Leaders
Capital markets
The invasion of the sovereign-wealth funds
Democracy in retreat
Freedom marches backward
Ethical capitalism
How good should your business be?
The militarisation of space
Dangerous driving in the heavens
Global warming
Get the price right

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◆Letters
On Pakistan, Belgians, Italy, cliff jumping, China, tribes, Mormons, Ivar Kreuger

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◆Special Report
The militarisation of space
Disharmony in the spheres

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◆United States
Michigan's Republican primary
All must have prizes
The Democrats in Michigan
Vote early at your peril
Sex, race and Democrats
Outrage all round
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
The economy
Stampede to stimulus
University fees
Affording Ivy
Depopulation
The Great Plains drain
Lexington
Blood and oil

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◆The Americas
Brazil's economy
This time it will all be different
Panama
Party time
Colombia
Liberation politics
Barbados
Sweet success

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◆Asia
Taiwan's legislative election
Bowing out
Japan
The “caretaker”
South Korea
The “bulldozer”
Australia's new prime minister
Rudd, sweat and tears
Sir Edmund Hillary
Plain man, mighty deeds
India's army
Unfit for service
A bombing in Kabul
A bubble bursts

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◆Middle East & Africa
George Bush and the Arabs
Hard to make friends
Iraq
A hint of political compromise at last
Kenya
A cracked nation holds its breath
South Africa
Let's all arrest one another
Zimbabwe
A serious rival, at last?


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◆Europe
Germany's state elections
Pay and punishment
French defence policy
En garde
French broadcasting
No English, please
Serbia
Still surly
Energy in Poland
Walking on hot coals
The race for the EU presidency
Blair for president?
Charlemagne
Roll up, roll up, get your energy here

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◆Britain
Northern Rock
Running out of time
Party-funding scandal
Here we go again
Biofuels
Sugar in the tank
Children's television
School's out

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◆International
Measuring liberty
When freedom stumbles
The World Bank
Lin's long swim
Broadband
Open up those highways

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◆Business
The food industry
Son of Frankenfood?
Corporate law
The battle of StoneRidge
Regulation in Japan
Crime and punishment
Italy's violin cluster
Con brio
Spanish-language publishing
Lost in translation no more
Media in America
Reading the Metro
Virtualisation
The rise of the hypervisor
Face value
Google's guru of giving

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◆Special Report
Sovereign-wealth funds
Asset-backed insecurity

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◆Finance & Economics
Global inflation
A delicate condition
Bank losses
A Citi situation
Buttonwood
Finding default
Indian IPOs
Power play
Portuguese banks
Millennium bug
American house prices
Baby boom and bust
Economics focus
Selling sex

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◆Science & Technology
Pricing and the brain
Hitting the spot
Acoustic shielding
Sound reflections
A messenger from Mercury
Syphilis
Montezuma's revenge
Antarctic science
Snow place like home

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◆Books & Arts
The secret of happiness
It's in Iceland
America and the world
Big think that gets you a headline
British post-war history
At the centre
Crime writing
Death watch
The American Museum of Finance
Curating capitalism

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◆Obituary
John Harvey-Jones

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

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◆On the cover
America wants change; it just can't work out what sort of change



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

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◆Leaders
America's election
Up in the air
Colour revolutions in the former Soviet Union
A bit faded but still bright enough
Emerging-market multinationals
Wind of change
America's economy
A long slog
America in the Middle East
George Bush drinks in the last-chance casbah

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◆Letters
On Kenya, beauty, Canadian workers, Muslims, words, shopping malls

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◆United States
The Democrats
The Comeback Kid, part two
The Republicans
The Mac is back
Primary colour
On the campaign trail
Obamamania
Has the magical mystery tour hit the buffers?
Kenya
Saving the world in his spare time
Nevada and California
Into the West
Bipartisanship
Squeezed out?
Lexington
The Republican crack-up

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◆The Americas
Venezuela
Chávez slows to a trot
Chile
The centre cannot hold
Peru
Suffer the children
Canada
Islam and phobias
Brazil
The granny from Ipanema
Correction: Mexico's oil industry

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◆Asia
Islam in Indonesia
Where “soft Islam” is on the march
Executions in China
The bullet or the needle
Marshall Islands
Home on the range
Censorship in China
Caution: lust
Nepal
The tumbrel rolls

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◆Middle East & Africa
Kenya
Kibaki v Odinga: no compromise yet
The Arabs
Between fitna, fawda and the deep blue sea
Israel
Where do we go from here?

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◆Europe
Georgia
Misha bounces back
Rubbish in Naples
See it and die
French politics
L'hyperprésident
German media
The mirror crack'd
Spain and the Catholic church
The bishops' revolt
Turkey and tolerance
Deviating from the path
Charlemagne
Those naive American voters

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◆Britain
The London mayoral race
Political capital
Energy prices
Higher still and higher
Nuclear power
The wind, the sun―and the atom
Bad women
Ma's behind bars

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◆International
Charles Taylor in the dock
Bringing bigwigs to justice
Islam and democracy
The practice―and the theory
Avoidable deaths
Where do all the dollars go?
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◆Business
The music industry
From major to minor
Consumer electronics
Everything's gone Blu
Chinese toys
No fun and games
The Volkswagen trial
What did he know?
Starbucks v McDonald's
Coffee wars
Chrysler
Reality bites
The one-lakh car
No lakh of daring
Face value
Totally different

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◆Special Report
Emerging-market multinationals
The challengers

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◆Finance & Economics
Banks and the credit crunch
Stepping beyond subprime
R-word index
Warning lights
German banks
Slow motion
Buttonwood
Riding the cycle
Health-care economics
Comparison shopping
The Chinese yuan
Revaluation by stealth
Economics focus
Same as it ever was

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◆Science & Technology
Drug addiction
Going by the book
Astronomy
Where the shadows lie
Co-operative breeding
The perils of togetherness
How to find a mate
The scent of a woman (and a man)
Correction: British physics

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◆Books & Arts
New fiction
Searching for truth, whatever that is
American history 1
Durably democratic
American history 2
Towards perfect freedom
The Mafia in Naples
Gangsters go global
American kids
In praise of nerds
Medieval ivories
Pause as you pass

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◆Obituary
George MacDonald Fraser

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

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◆On the cover
Nothing else has worked: it is time for the world's most dangerous place to try democracy



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

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◆Leaders
Pakistan
The world's most dangerous place
Kenya
A very African coup
Global migration
Keep the borders open
America's economy
Aspirin, not morphine
The oil price
Peak nationalism

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◆Letters
On urban populations, secularism, international law, cocaine, Macedonia, computers, Alaska

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◆Special Report
Pakistan
A country on the brink
Germany's Jews
Latkes and vodka

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◆United States
The presidency
George Bush's last year
Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg
A tale of two mayors
Chicago's public transport
Off track
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
Strip clubs
The Texas pole tax
Parks
American pastoral
Lexington
The 40-year itch

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◆The Americas
Brazil
If redemption fails, you can still use the free bathroom
Argentina, Venezuela and America
Slush and garbage
Colombia
Camera, no action

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◆Asia
Thailand
Counting Thaksin's blessings
Hong Kong
Democracy denied
Nuclear North Korea
Eerie silence
Taiwan
Vote, vote and vote again
Gujarat
A la Modi
Sri Lanka
Truce and fiction

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◆Middle East & Africa
Kenya's elections
Twilight robbery, daylight murder
Nigeria
The good, the bad and the president
America and the Middle East
Yo, anyone who fears Iran

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◆Europe
France
Sarkozy's testing year ahead
Italy's fiscal policy
Tax bonanza
Charlemagne
Shop-worn arguments

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◆Britain
Immigration controls
Guarding British soil
Victorian diseases
Still with us

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◆International
The United Nations
The rewards of beavering away

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◆Business
Mergers and acquisitions
Whither the great wave?
Business jets
Winging it
Advertising
How not to annoy your customers
Business in Norway
Girl power
Software as a service
A question of demand
Face value
The social technologist

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◆Special Report
Employment in Japan
Sayonara, salaryman

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◆Finance & Economics
The euro area
Déjà vu
Buttonwood
And God created alpha
Bond insurance
Testing the waters
Japan's property markets
Building wealth
Trade
The sun sets on Cotonou
Economics focus
An old Chinese myth

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◆Science & Technology
Abolishing ageing
How to live forever
The Methuselah mouse
Eyes on the prize
Correction: Human cloning

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◆Books & Arts
Pakistan's nuclear ambitions
The spider's stratagem
The importance of economics
A black and white case
German art
Expressionists at war
American social history
An outsider looking in
Amazon worldwide bestsellers
HP sauce
Corrections: Rush Limbaugh and Noël Coward

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◆Obituary
Benazir Bhutto

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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
Stockmarkets

======
◆On the cover
Staying at the top: Mao and the art of management

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◆Leaders
The credit crunch
Postcards from the ledge
Global warming
Some like it cool
Democracy in Africa
For all its flaws, an example to others
The presidential race
In praise of the primaries
Genetically modified wine
Unleash the war on terroir
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◆Letters
On spelling, universities, ships, Britain, Bangladesh, pigs, German words
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◆United States
Iowa
The nightmare before Christmas
The campaign trail
Primary colour
Ghost towns
History in a half-brick
The beer crisis
Trouble brewing
Health
Scalpel, please
Lexington
The spirit of Christmas

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◆The Americas
Mexico
Running just to stand still
Cuba
Fidel's last riddle
Brazil
The cheque bounces

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◆Asia
Thailand's election
South-East Asia's Pakistan?
Recalculating China's GDP
Clipping the dragon's wings
Death by overwork in Japan
Jobs for life
Myanmar
Burmese maze

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◆Middle East & Africa
Kenya's election
Down to the wire
South Africa
Zuma comes out on top
Iran and the Arabs
Friendlier hands across the Gulf
Yossi Beilin
A dove departs
Turkey and Iraq
Raids across the border

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◆Europe
The German economy
The beguiling path of non-reform
Ukraine's government
Return of the orange princess
Poland's new foreign policy
A winter honeymoon
Turkey and its Christians
The cross and the crescent
Charlemagne
A summit to nowhere

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◆Britain
Northern Rock
Slouching towards nationalisation
The Liberal Democrats
The third man
The British army
Beating the retreat
Missing data
Learning the embarrassing way
Bagehot
The tipping points

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◆International
The World Bank
First the mutiny, then the silver
Climate change and forests
So hard to see the wood for the trees
Russia, Iran and nuclear fuel
Dangerous liaisons

Poker
A big deal
The poignancy of piers
The end of the pier
Falling off high places
Human lemmings
Beauty and success
To those that have, shall be given
Mormons
From polygamy to propriety
Counting people
Census sensitivity
Charts
Worth a thousand words
American spirituality
Where “California” bubbled up
The Bible v the Koran
The battle of the books
Urban poverty in India
A flourishing slum
Recycling
A soul-searching business
Japanese sea-drifters
When Japan was a secret
The sex life of the panda
Black and white and red all over
China and Taiwan
Pandaplomacy
Retailing
Birth, death and shopping
Fraud and financial innovation
The match king
Staying at the top
Mao and the art of management
Kitchens
Downstairs Upstairs
Hunter-gatherers
Noble or savage?
18th-century climate change
The summer of acid rain
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◆Business
The European car industry
Collision course
Cement
Concrete proposals needed
Takeovers in Japan
Hostility, of sorts
Prosecco
Fizzy or still?
Face value
The accidental innovator

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◆Finance & Economics
Mortgage-industry lawsuits
The finger of suspicion
Buttonwood
Swan songs
Health care in Africa
Of markets and medicines
Goldman Sachs
Modern Midas
Economics focus
The new (improved) Gilded Age
Correction: The walking dead

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◆Science & Technology
Particle physics
Merry Christmas, Dr Heuer
British physics
Newton's law of funding
Grape genetics
Vine times

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◆Books & Arts
Atlantic salmon
Ruler of the river
World trade
Genghis the globaliser
Chemistry in cooking
Molecular gastronomy

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◆Obituary
Ike Turner

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
GDP growth forecasts, 2008
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Budget balances