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In this issue:

The Olympics & Innovation - How Companies Use the Games to develop new products & ideas

Plus - McCain vs. Obama - Why their economic plans don’t add up

Business Outlook - Jim Cooper: The Danger to America from slowing growth overseas

Facetime - Maria Bartiromo talks to Merrill’s John Thain

Pensions - Wall Street wants to buy and run “frozen” corporate plans. The idea gives critics chills

Drugs - Advances in Alzheimer’s therapy

Security - A world class challenge

Retailing - GAP hopes to get a makeover from the fashion world’s Patrick Robinson

Africa - No product, it seems, is too cheap to counterfeit

SCI TECH - Pollen policework; dachshunds and blindness; more

Real estate - Tips for interpid. There are bargains, but finding financing will take lots of patience

Media Centric - Jon Fine ponders whether GE will sell or hold NBC

Books - Broughton: Ahead of Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School

and etc.

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The Economist 2nd August 2008

In this issue:

The tragedy of Doha round

Turkey, back from the brink

Swinging Ohio

Business as usual in russia, alas

ArmaGordon for Brown?

China’s dash for freedom and how the Olympics slowed it down

Inside this week: a 14-page special report on the sports business

etc.

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In this issue:

The Real Question about OIL - Should it be Cheap? by John Carey

Why garbage is a Hot Commodity?

The Spies In Your Medicine cabinet.

Media: Satellite TV’s Dish Network Starts Falling to Earth

Investing: A simple, safer way to stash large amounts of cash.

Outside Shot: Tough economic love from Charles Morris, author of The Trillion Dollar Meltdown.

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