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Class war

The Economist: News analysis -- Does local beat global in the professional-networking business? Nov 19th 2009 | PARIS Untold billions, five contactsGetty ImagesIN THE three-way fight between the biggest online professional networks—America’s LinkedIn, France’s Viadeo and Germany’s Xing—this week the French contender scored a victory. Last year LinkedIn had struck a deal with Apec, France’s best-known professional-recruitment ser...     11-24     采编 greenshow
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US health-care reform: Proceed with caution

The Economist: News analysis -- US health-care reform Proceed with cautionNov 23rd 2009From Economist.com A health-care reform bill gets to the floor of the Senate. A rowdy debate will follow ShutterstockDEMOCRATS in the Senate defeated a Republican attempt to block their health-care bill on Saturday November 21st, just days after Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, unveiled the long-awaited legislation, which amalgamates pr...     11-24
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Calling all cars

The Economist: News analysis -- Tapping remotely into a car’s data systems provides lots of useful servicesGetty ImagesIN THE early hours of the morning two men are robbed at gunpoint and ordered out of their Chevrolet Tahoe. The thief jumps in and roars off, but he does not get far. The vehicle is fitted with a telemetry system that provides a data link to a control centre. Soon after being reported stolen, the Tahoe is located...     11-23     采编 greenshow
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The other D-word

The Economist: News analysis -- Is Japan back in a deflationary trap?WHILE investors have been fretting recently about Japan’s huge debt, another of the dreaded D-words has come back to haunt them. On Friday November 20th, Japan’s Cabinet Office issued a monthly report that for the first time since 2006 acknowledged that the country was suffering from deflation.Consumer prices have actually been falling for months, but the pace ...     11-22     采编 greenshow
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Name a famous Belgian

The Economist: News analysis -- Two minor but competent figures will be president and high representative of the EUReutersA MAN who has been Belgian prime minister for less than a year and a British technocrat who has never held elected office were chosen by European Union leaders on Thursday November 19th to represent their 27 countries around the world, and lead their policymaking at the highest level. It seems odd to appoint ...     11-21     采编 greenshow
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This week's top stories [20 November 2009]

The Economist: News analysis -- Our top articles ranked by reader popularity.Space exploration: Any drop to drink?Italy's justice system: Imposing limitsThis week's top stories [13 November 2009]The coming days: The week aheadBA and Iberia: Uniting in the skyAmerica and China: Pleased to meet youIntel and AMD: Agreeing on a pay-offShootings at Fort Hood: After the horror at homeOracle and Sun Microsystems: Too close to SunAmeric...     11-21
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The parable of the sower

The Economist: News analysis -- The debate over whether Monsanto is a corporate sinner or saintMonsantoFEW companies excite such extreme emotions as Monsanto. To its critics, the agricultural giant is a corporate hybrid of Victor Frankenstein and Ebenezer Scrooge, using science to create foods that threaten the health of both people and the planet, and intellectual-property laws to squeeze every last penny out of the world’s poo...     11-20     采编 greenshow
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The EU presidency: Name a famous Belgian

The Economist: News analysis -- Two minor but competent figures will be president and high representive of the European UnionA MAN who has been Belgian prime minister for less than a year and a British technocrat who has never held elected office were chosen by European Union leaders on Thursday November 19th to represent their 27 countries around the world, and lead their policy making at the highest level. It seems odd to appo...     11-20
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Israel's settlement policy: Settling for less

The Economist: News analysis -- The latest row over Israeli settlements in Palestinian territoryBINYAMIN NETANYAHU, Israels prime minister, came under pressure this week when news leaked of a new plan to build 900 homes in the occupied Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. His aides say that he knew nothing about the scheme before a local planning committee considered it.True or not, the latest settlement expansion is exasperating for those...     11-20
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Afghanistans anti-corruption drive: Taming the mafia state

The Economist: News analysis -- Anti-graft pressure mounts in Afghanistan, as Hamid Karzai is again sworn in as president IT WAS no secret what the world wanted to hear from Hamid Karzai when Afghanistans president was sworn in for a second term on Thursday November 19th: a commitment to get tough on corruption. Visiting Kabul for the inauguration, Hillary Clinton, Americas secretary of state, said Mr Karzai had a window of oppo...     11-19
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A yuan-sided argument

The Economist: News analysis -- Why China resists foreign demands to revalue its currencyShutterstockPRESIDENT Barack Obama, on his first visit to China this week, urged the government to allow its currency to rise. President Hu Jintao politely chose to ignore him. In recent weeks Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund,...     11-19     采编 greenshow
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China's currency: A yuan-sided argument

The Economist: News analysis -- Why China resists foreign demands to revalue its currencyPRESIDENT Barack Obama, on his first visit to China this week, urged the government to allow its currency to rise. President Hu Jintao politely chose to ignore him. In recent weeks Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, have also c...     11-19
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Not-so-wonderful Copenhagen

The Economist: News analysis -- A forthcoming climate-change summit will not produce a binding deal on emissionsEXPECTATIONS for the Copenhagen climate conference, held next month in Denmark, have been steadily dwindling. On Sunday November 15th, as Barack Obama toured Asia, he and the Danish prime minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, quietly agreed what many had anticipatedthat no binding agreement would be reached at the conference...     11-19
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Start-up nations

The Economist: News analysis -- A drive to turn the whole world into entrepreneursAN OPPOSITION is supposed to oppose, of course—but Britain’s Conservative Party, poised on the brink of power, is sending an odd message by pledging to scrap the country’s annual Enterprise Week, which began this year on November 16th. Apparently, this is because Gordon Brown, the prime minister, is a well-known supporter of the week, and the Conse...     11-18     采编 greenshow
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The Republicans: She'll be back

The Economist: News analysis -- Sarah Palin and the state of the Republican PartyEVER since Abraham Lincoln made a virtue of log cabins and splitting railway sleepers, crafting the right autobiography has been an essential task for anyone seeking high office in America. On Monday November 16th Sarah Palin, ex-governor of Alaska and failed vice-presidential candidate in 2008, made an eagerly awaited appearance on the Oprah Winfre...     11-17
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America and China: Pleased to meet you

The Economist: News analysis -- Barack Obamas trip to China may encourage a warming of relationsMUTUAL suspicion and mutual attraction are powerful and competing forces in the relationship between China and America. President Barack Obama hopes his first visit to China, which began on Sunday November 15th, will enable the two countries to work more closely on global problems, from climate change to the economy. His hosts appear ...     11-17
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Any drop to drink?

The Economist: News analysis -- There is water—or, at least ice—on the moonReutersTHE moon is covered with seas, oceans and bays, the result of astronomers from past centuries whose imaginations out-ran the capabilities of their instruments, and who assumed that the Earth’s nearest neighbour was not that dissimilar to its mother planet. Modern astronomers know different. The moon is airless, waterless, weatherless and lifeless. ...     11-16     采编 greenshow
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Uniting in the sky

The Economist: News analysis -- BA and Iberia at last agree to get together to sort out their problems ShutterstockLIKE two drowning men Iberia and British Airways have long eyed each other as potential means of mutual buoyancy. The rate at which the airlines have been sinking at last forced them into each others arms on Thursday November 12th. BA made big pre-tax losses in the year to the end of March as it suffered from the cr...     11-15     采编 greenshow
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Italy's justice system: Imposing limits

The Economist: News analysis -- A bizarre attempt by Silvio Berlusconi's government to constrain Italy's courtsIF YOU live in Italy and are planning to commit a moderately severe crimeperhaps a white-collar offence such as cooking the books, or beating your children, even stabbing your neighbourthe law might soon be of little hindrance to you. If a bill tabled in parliament this week were to become law, it would mean you could c...     11-14
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A little outside help

The Economist: News analysis -- A revival in world trade drags the euro-zone economy out of recessionShutterstockIT IS not quite the recovery that was hoped for. Figures released on Friday November 13th showed that the euro-area economy crawled out of recession in the three months to the end of September. GDP rose by 0.4% from the second quarter (an annualised rate of 1.6%). That still left it 4.1% lower than a year earlier—a re...     11-14     采编 greenshow
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