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• Leaving Germany: Auf Wiedersehen

  www.economist.com - Our former Frankfurt corrrespondent looks backSOMEWHERE on the towpath of the river Main, between Aschaffenburg, with its medieval castle, and Frankfurt, with its bank skyscrapers, is a terraced garden. view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 12/15/2008
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• The Amazon: Into the wild

  www.economist.com - Travels among the TicunaMANAUS—with its rubber-barons’ mansions, tax-free factories, tomato-soup opera house and thousands of umbrella sellers—becomes smaller as the plane banks and heads west. Manaus, view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 12/8/2008
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• Financial literacy: The money talks

  www.economist.com - An economist descends into the trenchesI SUPPOSE I could be described as financially literate. I have a doctorate in economics; my dissertation focused on financial decision-making. I write about view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 12/1/2008
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• Cape Coral, Florida: From boom to bust

  www.economist.com - Ground zero of the housing-market collapseAS I drive up to the dusty fairgrounds of the German-American Social Club of Cape Coral, Florida, I see an abandoned white house with peeling paint and boarded-up view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 11/25/2008
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• A land of drought: The Australian outback

  www.economist.com - The legends that shape a national character, and a worsening water crisisAS THE plane circles to land at Dubbo, on the western plains of New South Wales (NSW), I am surprised to see the country below view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 11/24/2008
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• Moore Street: Dublin in black and white

  www.economist.com - The new Irish and the oldBELGIUM is not the first thing that comes to mind when you mention Brussels on Dublin’s streets. “I haven’t got any love,” Annie, a trader, tells me, thinking I was looking for view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 11/24/2008
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• MI6's secret tunnels: A deep, dark secret

  www.economist.com - Snooker, piranhas and a hotline to MoscowPEDALLING to work each day, I spend most of the journey looking out for London’s deadly, articulated “bendy buses”. The 60-foot beasts can happily scissor a view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 11/21/2008
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• British oil: Cold black gold

  www.economist.com - A vital but shrinking industryMOST passengers ignore the earnest safety briefings given at the start of every flight. But as water began gushing into the helicopter cabin, I was doing my best to remember. view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 11/17/2008
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• Estonia: In the eye of a Baltic storm

  www.economist.com - Prosperous but uneasy on Russia’s border“ESTONIANS OUT OF SIBERIA—SOVIETS OUT OF ESTONIA”. Amid the protests against the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, that slogan—on a banner carried by view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 11/17/2008
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• From the campaign trail: Washington, DC: Trail's end

  www.economist.com - The city that changes, the city that doesn'tELECTION day broke chilly and grey across the DC area (only transplants call it Washington). Late-morning drizzles turned into the sort of steady, cold, view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 11/7/2008
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• Europe.view: Perfidy from Albion

  www.economist.com - Britain needs to stiffen its spine when dealing with the KremlinAFTER the Russian-Georgian war, Britain stood out as the only big European country willing to talk tough to the Kremlin. On August 27th view details...

  Found on: www.economist.com 11/6/2008
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