The Economist, August 8, 2009

The Economist, August 8, 2009
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Illiberal politics: America's unjust sex laws
An ever harsher approach is doing more harm than good, but it is being copied around the world.

Redesigning Europe's biggest economy: Unbalanced Germany
Europe's champion is justly proud of its exporters. It also needs to worry about markets closer to home.

Britain's energy crisis: How long till the lights go out?
Thanks to its posturing politicians, Britain will soon start to run out of electricity. What should it do?

Regulating executive compensation: Pay and politics
So far, Congress is taking a surprisingly sensible approach to the problem of pay.

Generic drugs and competition: Something rotten
Regulators should put a stop to tactics that delay the introduction of generic drugs.

Islam and heresy: Where freedom is still at stake
Wanted: Islam's Voltaire.

Big drug firms embrace generics: Friends for life
Big pharmaceutical firms are learning to love their erstwhile enemies, makers of generic drugs.

Offshore private banking: Bourne to survive
Despite the woes of UBS, Swiss private banking remains in reasonable shape.

A link between wealth and breeding: The best of all possible worlds?
It was once a rule of demography that people have fewer children as their countries get richer. That rule no longer holds true.

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The Economist, June 13, 2009

The Economist, June 13, 2009
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Public debt: The biggest bill in history
The right and wrong ways to deal with the rich world's fiscal mess.

Gordon Brown stumbles on: Reprieved
The prime minister's survival is probably bad news for his party, but not necessarily for his country.

The worrying European elections: Trouble at the polls
Many of Europe's voters do not like the European Union. Most of the rest don't care. They should.

Deforestation and carbon credits: Seeing REDD in the Amazon
Saving rainforests needs both property rights and payments.

Wall Street and the taxpayer: Thanks, for nothing
Banks should be encouraged to pay back governments—but not to rewrite history.

Sri Lanka after the war: Victory's rotten fruits
The government's unpleasant triumphalism is sowing the seeds of renewed conflict.

Solar-powered manned flight: Flying for ever
A new solar-powered aircraft attempts to fly around the world with zero emissions.

A special report on the euro area
The euro area, sorely tested by the financial crisis, has survived intact and is likely to expand further.

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BusinessWeek, June 22, 2009

BusinessWeek, June 22, 2009 English | PDF | 13.9 MB

The Risk Takers
From Novartis to Procter & Gamble, smart companies are turning up the heat in the downturn.

Special Report: Inside Innovation
A failed software idea, automated innovation, finds new life as a cost-cutting tool for tough times.

Pandit in the Hot Seat
Are the feds pushing Citigroup to force Vikram Pandit out?

Google's New Ad Weapon
The company aims to use the ad exchange it picked up from DoubleClick to help advertisers buy online display ads more quickly.

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National Geographic, June 2009

National Geographic, June 2009
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The Forgotten Faithful
Arab Christians feel outnumbered and alone.

River Dolphins
How'd they get to the Amazon -- and why are the males pink?

Deep Southern Caves
Good old boys and gals wriggle through unexplored mazes.

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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
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On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” With slides of his CT scans beaming out to the audience, Randy told his audience about the cancer that is devouring his pancreas and that will claim his life in a matter of months. On the stage that day, Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged.

Randy’s lecture has become a phenomenon, as has the book he wrote based on the same principles, celebrating the dreams we all strive to make realities. Sadly, Randy lost his battle to pancreatic cancer on July 25th, 2008, but his legacy will continue to inspire us all, for generations to come.

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