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A web cartoonist finds success in the material world(8)
A new stage of higher education
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What worked for cars can work for trains: railway engines will soon be hybrid(23)
Six ways airlines could communicate better
Airlines could save themselves a lot of ill-will just by providing more information
Democracy in America is troubled by high-ranking soldiers working for defence firms
Babbage asks: what were the wackiest science and technology breakthroughs of 2010?
Johnson is not convinced by Chinese efforts to ban English words from its media
Gulliver wonders how snow can keep passengers stranded in a plane for 11 hours
Baobab meets some soldiers of fortune in Sierra Leone
India's intifada
Our economic crystal ball
Our economics correspondents discuss whether 2011 will be a year of dangers avoided, or surprising shocks
Isn't this called playing hard to get?
Newly published research about romantic attraction confirms what mothers have been saying for generations: don't give it all away
The year ahead
The first in a two-part series looks ahead at the world economy, emerging markets, paywalls and corporate anniversaries
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