Wednesday October 12th 2011
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Europe and the economic crisis
Slovakia’s “no” to the expansion of the European Financial Stability Facility brings down the country's government, but is unlikely to be its last word(13)
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The Republican nomination
Mitt Romney shows his presidential stuff in New Hampshire(82)
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Hope in Myanmar
In a bold leap towards press freedom, the state's censor-in-chief proposes to do himself out of a job(31)
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Egypt
Clashes between protesters, security forces and army vigilantes kill 24 people in Cairo, mostly Copts(83)
Special report: personal technology
Mobile digital gadgets are overshadowing the personal computer. Their impact will be far-reaching(28)
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Alzheimer's disease
How to detect Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear—if you are a woman(23)
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French politics
François Hollande and Martine Aubry top the party's presidential primary vote(38)
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Copyright and time zones
The time is up for an online repository of the world's time zones
From our blogs
Baobab observes some of the questions best avoided during Liberia's election
Bagehot on Liam Fox's troubles
Prospero looks at Rembrandt and Bacon looking at themselves
Free exchange on what green jobs are
Schumpeter on how to make life tougher for tax havens
Eastern approaches asks whether Slovakia will take a bullet for the euro
Gulliver on a setback in the airlines’ battle against ETS
Banyan reflects on the West's ten years' involvement in Afghanistan
Media digitisation
A Japanese service for transcribing print into bits sets up shop in America
The Nobel prize in economics
The innovations produced by Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims have become ubiquitous
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Money talks
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Olivier Blanchard on fiscal policy
Videographic
Smartphones and tablets overtake the computer, hoovering up mobile data by the exabyte
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