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Ahoy there Somalia
The significance of the latest attacks by Somali pirates
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Launching Hillary at the world
The surprising idea that Hillary Clinton could become Barack Obama's secretary of state
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Jerry Yang stands down
Yahoo!’s boss, Jerry Yang, a nice person and a pioneer of the web, is quitting
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Golden years
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Is business truly the business of business? Debate
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Congo and the world: Beware of a stampede to war
The UN may send more troops to Congo. Would they do any good?
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Correspondent's diary: Britain's oil
Cold black gold. But this vital industry is shrinking
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Economics focus: Race and red tape
An unsung benefit of deregulation is greater colour-blindness
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Exoplanets: First sighting
At last, planets are seen outside the solar system
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Miriam Makeba, a voice against apartheid
"Mama Africa" spent more than 30 years in exile from her homeland
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Business.view: Start-ups and slow-downs
What impact will recession have on entrepreneurship?
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Green.view: Green halo
George Bush’s environmental legacy
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Bagehot: The twilight zone
Everything suddenly seems possible in British politics
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Art.view: Skating to nirvana
Peace brought Romanticism to 19th-century Holland
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Asia.view: Immeasurable loss
The collapse in Hong Kong takes a mysterious form
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Buttonwood: An appetising spread
The corporate-bond market is discounting very bad news
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Charlemagne: No room in the ark
The euro may not be quite as safe a haven as enthusiasts are claiming
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Europe.view: Is it an ideology?
When revanchism and financial crises meet
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Lexington: Ship of fools
Political parties die from the head down
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Market.view: Not single spies but in battalions
When rational behaviour produces unwanted results
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Tech.view: Hear the difference
Which is best-analogue or digital?
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Democracy in America
Happy Birthday, Ted Stevens!
The longest-serving Republican loses his Alaska Senate seat
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Free exchange
You don't say?
Profiles in self-interested behaviour
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Gulliver
The golden age of travel managers
Heady times for penny pinchers
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The World in 2009
Downwardly mobile
Watch out for the economic turning-point
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Certain ideas of Europe
Heading north
Immigrants flock to Sweden
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