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Volume 432 Number 9154

Asia

44 Politics in Singapore

45 Aboriginal rights in

Australia

46 Japan’s disabled MPs

46 Smoking in Indonesia

47 BanyanA federal

Philippines

China

48 Jobless graduates

49 Hong Kong’s protests

50 ChaguanThe semiotics

of meeting rooms

International

51 Are Western democracies

becoming ungovernable?

Business

53 How to beat Bezos

54 SoftBank’s double Vision

55 BartlebyKeeping staff

happy

56 A generic merger

56 Tragedy in India Inc

57 Schumpeter Online food

fights

Finance & economics

58 The Powell pirouette

59 ButtonwoodUnalloyed

blessings

60 The LSE’s monster trade

60 The Mittelstand and

inequality

61 British class-action cases

62 Luring back Portuguese

emigrants

62 Wall Street and Warren

63 Free exchangeEmerging-

markets’ broken dreams

Science & technology

64 The rise of planetology

65 Mayan human sacrifice

66 Power from the night air

Books & arts

68 The Bauhaus

69 The disinformation age

70 Mosquitos

70 Sporting fiction

Economic & financial indicators

72 Statistics on 42 economies

Graphic detail

73 High internet use and state support help countries ditch cash

Obituary

74 Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan’s longest-serving DA