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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…