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• Barack Obama's progress Coming down to earth

  www.economist.com - TWO months after his inauguration, Barack Obama can already point to some impressive achievements. He has passed a $787 billion stimulus bill—the biggest in ... view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 3/26/2009
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• Lincoln Centre: Well Met

  www.economist.com - What goes into planning a 125th birthday partyFOR the past few months, people who attended a concert at Lincoln Centre have had to meander through a sprawling construction site. The windswept plazas view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 3/24/2009
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• Pennsylvania's burning mines: Inextinguishable and compelling

  www.economist.com - Belching smoke for nearly a centuryCENTRAL Pennsylvania—specifically, the Lackawanna river valley, comprising the towns of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Carbondale and Ashley—was the centre of America’s view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 3/17/2009
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• Afghanistan: Hearts, minds and guns

  www.economist.com - Waging war or peace in the Hindu KushA SOLDIER on the eve of war single-mindedly checks and rechecks his weapon, but the journalist preparing to write about the soldier at war faces indecision over his view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 3/9/2009
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• Louisiana: Fat Tuesday

  www.economist.com - Party today, ashes tomorrow“ARE you ready for a clucking good time?” The outgoing 2008 Miss Courir de Mardi Gras is working the crowd, and everyone in Church Point, Louisiana, seems ready to cluck. view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 3/4/2009
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• Mad money with Barack Obama | Democracy in America | Economist.com

  www.economist.com - BARACK OBAMA is not a financial advisor, but he sounded like one earlier today. Responding to a reporter's question about the decline in the stockmarket and the administration's plan to fix the banking view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 3/4/2009
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• Macclesfield-Gillingham: Singing with the Silkmen

  www.economist.com - Music and loss in the fourth divisionWHAT do “Guantanamera”, “Cwm Rhondda”, Verdi’s “La donna e mobile”, the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” and the Pet Shop Boys’ “Go West” have in common? They’re all view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 3/3/2009
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• The Tornado: All aboard

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  The first British-built steam train in almost 50 years

  ON SATURDAY February 7th, train platforms across England must have stood empty, denuded of their usual occupants, silent and deserted. view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 2/24/2009
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• Three Russian newsrooms: Dangerous words

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  Journalism and its discontents in Moscow

  “Y TAK, Y TAK.” Irina has translated my Russian into Russian. It’s a game we play. I notice only in translation that I begin most view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 2/17/2009
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• A service for Joseph Grimaldi: Send in the clowns

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  A funeral that begins in tears and ends in juggling

  “THERE’S no more space. You’ll have to wait.” The disgruntled crowd muttered with impatience, but the woman guarding view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 2/16/2009
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• The TED Conference: The Teddy boys' picnic

  www.economist.com - How to party and learn at the same timeTHERE are not many conferences at which a talk by Bill Gates on preventing malaria and educating America’s disadvantaged school children would be followed by a view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 2/13/2009
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