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    Should Obama have closed Guantánamo Bay prison by now?

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    Since 2000, American manufacturing employment has fallen from over 17m to about 12m

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    For some, business travel is becoming less of a commute, and more of a commune

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    Dispelling the myth of the operatic prodigy

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    Does geography play a role in joblessness?

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    The trickiest event in heptathlon is the eighth: scoring

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    Italians are not the only ones throwing matches

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    Keynes argued that government spending would "crowd in" private investment during a downturn

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    Public space in Turkey is central to the government's power grab

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    Corner office to Oval Office? Why business skills rarely translate to politics

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    Why hasn't President Obama closed Guantánamo yet?

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    An outbreak of yellow fever in Africa could go global. Supplies of the vaccine are dwindling

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    The Middle East’s sportsmen have retreated to a familiar field: politics

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    An essay on the endurance of Asia's second-world-war ghosts

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    Brits consume 165m cups of tea every day. For Americans, coffee is king

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    Younger business travellers want more communal living

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