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Marriage in America - [health & life]
2007-12-11
As the divorce rate plummets at the top of American society and rises at the bottom, the widening “marriage gap” is breeding inequality.
THE students at West Virginia University don't want you to think they take life... -
Chinese IPOs:Peaking - [Economics Focus]
2007-12-11
Darker days for new listings on China's stockmarkets.
BY NORMAL standards, investors in Chinese shares ought to be ecstatic. Over the past 12 months prices on the Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges have leapt by 45%, 83% and 132% respectively.… -
Flu vaccination:Pricking consciences - [Science & Technology]
2007-12-10
What is good for the individual isnot always best for society.
MATHEMATICIANS like to play games. Inparticular, they like to play games that examine how people pick ways ofbehaving that will maximise returns. One such mathematician is John N... -
Internet advertising: Adland's test tube - [Economics Focus]
2007-12-09
Britain provides a glimpse of the future of advertising.
THE future, noted William Gibson, a science-fiction writer, is already here—it is just unevenly distributed. To see the future of mobile phones, people look to Japan; to see the ... -
Obesity and bacteria:Greedy guts? - [health & life]
2007-12-08
Every week seems to bring a new theory about why people are getting fatter. The latest is that intestinal microbes are partly to blame.
ALTHOUGH most people prefer not to think about it, human guts are full of bacteria. And a good thing, too... -
Broadband internet:Wiring rural America - [Business]
2007-12-07
A public-private partnership success.
FROM her remote farm in southern Kentucky, Lajuana Wilcher checks an online database for local ranchers demanding alfalfa. She can specify at what price she is willing to sell, which counties to search a... -
A bouquet of desert flowers - [Economics Focus]
2007-12-07
Where sand and finance mix.
IF YOU want to see what it takes to set up an entirely new financial centre (and what is best avoided), head for Dubai. This tiny, sun-baked patch of sand in the midst of a war-torn and isolated region started wit... -
Property in Japan:Back from the grave - [Economics Focus]
2007-12-06
It has taken 16 years for commercial-property inflation in Japan to turn positive.
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THERE was a time when the price of the land surrounding Japan's Imperial Palace (about the size of Disneyland) was said to b... -
Buses: The Chinatown express - [Business]
2007-12-05
Innovation brings emulation
IT USED to be that you had to venture below the grime-caked pylons of the Manhattan Bridge, to a scene more reminiscent of Luoyang than of the Lower East Side, in order to catch a cheap bus ride between New York a... -
Public health：To avoid the Big C, stay small - [health & life]
2007-12-04
The best ways to prevent cancer look remarkably like those needed to prevent obesity and heart disease as well
Illustration by Stephen Jeffrey
EVERY day there are new stories in the tabloids about the latest link, sometimes tenuo...
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- Marriage in America
- Chinese IPOs:Peaking
- Flu vaccination:Pricking consciences
- Internet advertising: Adland's test tube
- Obesity and bacteria:Greedy guts?
- Broadband internet:Wiring rural America
- A bouquet of desert flowers
- Property in Japan:Back from the grave
- Buses: The Chinatown express
- Public health：To avoid the Big C, stay small
