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Aug 29th 2007 | ATHENS From Economist.comFirefighters are overstretched and reasons to start blazes abound AP  AS RECENTLY as two years ago, a forest fire came close to burning down the home of Costas Karamanlis. The Greek prime minister’s seaside villa outside Athens escaped the…

Aug 23rd 2007 From The Economist print editionThe former KGB men who run Russia have the wrong idea about how to make it great Magnum/AP  Get article background“OUR pilots have been grounded for too long. They are happy to start a new life.” So said Vladimir Putin as he sent…

Illustration: Pietari Posti 93 beats per minute. It's 5:45 am and I just cut myself shaving. I never cut myself shaving. Lather, bits of stubble, and flecks of blood drip onto a heart-rate monitor strapped across my chest. I'm going skydiving today, hence my case of frayed nerves — and the…

NOL • Metazin   • 2007. augusztus 23. A globalizáció sokak szerint a 20. század második felének terméke. A globalizációkutatás amerikai szaktekintélye legújabb könyvében amellett érvel, hogy a folyamat már sokkal korábban, az emberi társadalom…

From Economist.com THE temperature is rising in the Arctic. As global warming causes the polar ice-caps to melt, natural resources and lucrative shipping routes are becoming more accessible. Russia's jaunty placing of a flag on the seabed near the North Pole was only one of several exploratory…

From The Economist print editionThe new financial order is undergoing its harshest test. It will not be pretty, but it is necessary Illustration by Jon Berkeley  THE lifeguards had been scanning the horizon for an oil-price shock, a bankrupt buy-out or a terrorist attack. But when the big…

Claro Cortes IV/Reuters A billboard promotes the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. By AUSTIN CONSIDINE ALTHOUGH the 2008 Summer Olympics, being held in Beijing from Aug. 8 until Aug. 24, are still a full year away, making plans to attend the Games has already come down to a roulettelike…

Aug 15th 2007 From Economist.comA software firm goes to market AP  TIME to dust off the dotcom party hats again? Investors drove up shares in VMware, a Silicon Valley software-maker, by 76% on its first day of trading on Tuesday August 14th. Diane Greene (in our picture, being shown around…

2007 Mitsubishi Outlander LS By NICK KURCZEWSKI TESTED: 2007 Mitsubishi Outlander LS WHAT IS IT? Compact crossover sport utility wagon. HOW MUCH? Base ES, $21,995; LS as tested, $26,135. WHAT DRIVES IT? 3-liter V-6; six-speed automatic; all-wheel drive. (Front drive also available.) IS…

Tom Strattman for The New York Times $20,000 A MONTH By leasing his Bugatti, Timothy Durham deferred paying taxes. By PATRICK McGEEHAN WERE F. Scott Fitzgerald alive today, he might be surprised to learn that the very rich are not always so different from you and me, at least in how…