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The-Economist
Competitive punning: game of groans
Fire and fury over North Korea
The Fed's runners and riders
Was Google right to sack him?
AUGUST 12TH-18TH 2017
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OnthecoverThe internal combustionengine had a good run. Butthe end is in sight forthemachine that changed theworld: leader, page 7. Thebatteryindustry has vaultingambitions. Can it achievethem? Page 13. Atomicpower stations that float onthe ocean, or are anchoredbeneath it, may haveadvantages overthose builton land, page 59
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5 The world this week
Leaders7 The death of the internal
combustion engineRoadkill
8 South AfricaLong walk to cronyism
9 Google and genderNot evi l, just wrong
9 Russia and NATODangerous games
10 University financesThe English solution
Letters12 On Brexit, America,
edtech, carbon emissions,virtual reality, the BigMacindex
Briefing13 Batteries
Electrifying everything
Europe17 War games in Europe
Mr Putin flexes his muscles18 A Croatian firm's collapse
Supermarket chain reaction18 Mediterranean drought
Nor any drop to drink19 Freedom for the Faroes
Fishing for liberty20 Charlemagne
France v Italy
Britain21 Higher education
University challenge23 Bagehot
Has Corbyn peaked?
Middle East and Africa24 Kenya's disputed election
A country on edge25 Scions behaving badly
Despots' brats on Instagram25 Iraqi Kurdistan
Inching towards Kexit26 Hizbullah
When the guns come home27 Israeli politics
Prime suspect
United States28 Attitudes to immigration
Stillyearning29 College admissions
After affirmative action30 Labour unions
One and done31 Prisons
Companytown31 Health care
European lessons33 Lexington
The Democrats
The Americas34 Charter cities in
HondurasA shadowy experiment
36 ChileLifting the abortion ban
36 EcuadorMoreno asserts himself
Asia37 America and North Korea
Tone Defcon38 Tokyo's vanishing
bath-housesTroubled waters
38 Singapore's first familyBad blood
39 Muslim minorities (1)Trampled in Thailand
40 Muslim minorities (2)Myanmar's scapegoats
41 BanyanPhones v state in NorthKorea
China42 Rural Hong Kong
Housing ding-dong43 Tourism
Love yurts
American health care Ifyouwant to fix a system that isbuckling under pressure, lookto Europe, page 31
Russia By refusing to allowobservers at next month'sZapad 2017 military exercise,Vladimir Putin is stoking fearand suspicion: leader, page 9.WhyNATOis so alarmed, page 17
Kenya As the oppositioncontests the count, a peacefulvote is threatened by violence,page 24
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Contents The Econom}st August 12th 20174
North Korea Donald Trump'sbluster may thwart efforts togetthe nuclear dictatorshiptonegotiate, page 37.Smartphones help NorthKoreans keep track of what'sgoing ono Unfortunately, theyalso help the regime keeptrack ofits people: Banyan,page 41
Google There were better waysofdealing with an outspokenemployee than immediatelysacking him: leader, page 9.An internal memo inflames thedebate about sexism and freespeech at work, page 46. Evenas big tech firms thrive, theyare facing more governmentscrutinythan ever, page 44
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The Federal Reserve WhenJanetYellen's term ends, whowillbethe Fed's nextchair?Page 54. Investors rarely makethe best political analysts:Buttonwood, page 55
International44 The global techlash
Chaining giants
Business46 Silicon Valley's culture
You're fired47 Israeli business
Startup and leave nation48 Fox's bid for Sky
What the Fox said48 Helen Alexander
The best of bosses49 The business of airports
Ready to depart50 Schumpeter
Suspicious minds
Economics brief51 Say's law
Glutology
Finance and economics54 The Fed's next chair
Rate race55 Buttonwood
Not as smart as they think56 Banking in Australia
Cuckoo in the nest56 Dutch disease
The Nigerian complaint57 American infrastructure
Idle shovels57 Risky sovereign bonds
Still crazy58 Football finance
Shooting stars
Sdence and technology59 Nuclear energy
Putting to sea60 Genetic engineering
Cracking down on PERVs61 Hypersonic travel
Hot stuff
Books and arts62 Puns and punning
Away with words63 Henry DavidThoreau
Wild American63 "Jane Eyre"
The secret history64 Bernardo Atxaga's fiction
Nevada days64 Autism
The rise of theautie-biography
65 Beit BeirutMuseum of memory
68 Economic and finandalindicatorsStatistics on 42 economies,plus our monthly poll offorecasters
Obituary70 Jeanne Moreau
Life as defiance
Language Why English is thetongue ofword champuns,page 62
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