The Economist - 17th August-23rd August 2013, English Angielski, Magazine
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Contents
The Economist
August 17th 2013
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The world this week
The Americas
33 Energy reform in Mexico
Giving it both barrels
34 A Mexican drug lord freed
Ghosts of the past
34 Argentina
Bad dress rehearsal
Leaders
11 Egypt’s bloodbath
The battle for Egypt
12 India and Pakistan
Hold the line
12 America’s crowded
prisons
One nation, behind bars
13 Economic growth
A rickety rebound
14 Online media
Pennies stream from
heaven
Asia
35 India and Pakistan
Border disorder
36 Indian military power
All at sea
36 Myanmar’s press
Set it free
37 After Cambodia’s election
Stand-o
37 Crime in Malaysia
Drive-by shooting
India
Don’t let extremists or
nationalists scupper peace
talks between India and
Pakistan: leader, page 12.
More violence along the line of
control challenges the forces
of reconciliation, page 35. It
has been a week of triumph
and tragedy for India’s navy,
page 36
On the cover
Bloody confrontation on the
streets of Cairo risks
dividing Egypt more deeply
than ever: leader, page 11. It
could be a precursor of
worse to come, pages 19-22.
In Muhammad Morsi’s home
province they loathe him
or still love him, page 20
Letters
15 On infrastructure in
Russia, whistleblowers,
Egypt, Detroit, the royal
baby
China
38 The economy
A bubble in pessimism
40 Banyan
The constitutionalism
debate
Brie
ng
19 Egypt’s crisis
Storm before the storm
20 Scenes from provincial
life
No fear of death
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Middle East and Africa
41 Palestinian prisoners
Why they count
42 Israel’s new towns
Looking south
42 Tra
cking in north Africa
Boom boom
43 Drug addiction in Iran
The other religion
43 Mali’s new president
What next?
United States
23 Prison reform
An unlikely alliance of left
and right
24 Prison politics
The Californian way
26 National parks
Why go outside when you
have an iPhone?
28 Surveillance
Obama’s promises
28 Newark’s mayor
When Cory’s gone
30 Hobo culture
Don’t trample on tramps
30 Transgender pupils
Playing for the other team
31 Boomerang kids
How to move them out
31 Chinatown buses
Driven out of business
32 Lexington
Smart ALEC
Prisons
Eric Holder’s ideas for
locking up fewer Americans
are welcome, but should go
further: leader, page 12.
America is waking up to the
cost of mass incarceration,
page 23. Prisoners get better
rights in unexpected places,
page 52
Europe
44 East European defence
Poland
exes its muscles
45 German child care
Fighting over the Kinder
45 Montenegro
Leader of the pack
46 Spain and ETA
Always around
47 Swedish politics
Reinfeldt redux
47 Islam in Denmark
Of mosques and meat
Volume 408 Number 8849
First published in September 1843
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intelligence, which presses forward, and
an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing
our progress."
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Atlanta, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Cairo,
Chicago, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Los Angeles,
Mexico City, Moscow, New Delhi, New York, Paris,
San Francisco, São Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo,
Washington DC
Page 3 girls
A campaign to get
rid of tabloid nudity says much
about Britain’s changing
attitudes to sex: Bagehot,
page 50
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