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South Wales: Invisible homeland
www.economist.com - On being a country within a country“YOU’RE not Welsh,” a stranger sitting next to me on the train insisted when I mentioned that I was heading back to Wales, where I grew up. ... view details...
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Refrigerator factory diary: Birth of the cool
www.economist.com - Notes from The Little Tramp’s stamping groundWHERE do babies come from? It’s one of the earliest metaphysical questions children figure to ask. Parents may initially placate with a lie, but sooner or view details...
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The Beijing Olympics: Let the games begin
www.economist.com - The city behind the spectacleTHE 29TH Olympiad begins, at least for me, with what should be a great intellectual encounter. It is a discussion, held on the morning of the opening ceremonies, in an view details...
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The Edinburgh Fringe festival: Strange brew
www.economist.com - The weirdest week in ScotlandI WAKE up, eat a quick breakfast and leave my flat to go to the gas chamber: just another day at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, the biggest live-arts festival in the world. view details...
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Castleford: Digging for gold
www.economist.com - Unexpected frolics in a newly happy Yorkshire townGREAT cold sheets of rain thump down on Castleford, but the doughty families out to enjoy what remains of the Yorkshire summer are undeterred. Pulling view details...
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The Democratic National Convention: Ready on the left
www.economist.com - Daily dispatches from DenverAMERICANS have a remarkable talent for creating transparently pointless political rituals. The most pointless of all is the “spin room”. The first thing that journalism’s view details...
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The Republican National Convention: Ready on the right
www.economist.com - Daily dispatches from St PaulTHE most important feature of this year’s Republican convention is not its location, purpose or personalities. It is timing: for the first time in decades, the two parties view details...
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Beirut: Long division
www.economist.com - Scenes from an uneasy peaceCorrection to this article ... view details...
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British canals: A watery palimpsest
www.economist.com - Admiring what remains of an antique network view details...
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Wisconsin: Deep in the cheese
www.economist.com - John McCain and Sarah Palin take their show on the roadWASHINGTON STREET in downtown Cedarburg, Wisconsin, is a tidy row of nineteenth-century brick and stone buildings, replete with bakery, butcher view details...
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New Mexico: Border country
www.economist.com - Capsaicin and ghosts in America's quiet cornerTHERE are no direct flights from London to Albuquerque. New Mexicans tend to travel heavy, and my connecting flight from Houston stays grounded for 30 view details...
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