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http://www.pefc.orgPleaseVolume 433 Number 9173Asia
43 India’s citizenship
44 Libel laws in Australia
45 Vietnam’s footballers
46 Illegal private tutors in
North Korea
46 Foreigners in Japanese
schools
47 BanyanAung San Suu Kyi
in The HagueChina
48 A surge of diabetes
49 Xinjiang’s gulag
50 ChaguanHukon and
the urban middleInternational
51 Treating menopauseBusiness
53 Digital India’s rotten
foundation
54 Women on boards
55 Japan’s hot hoteliers
56 Patent-troll-hunting
56 Global retail retreats
57 Spooky software
58 Bartleby Artful business
59 Schumpeter Corporate
shamingFinance & economics
61 The World Bank and China
62 China’s exporters
62 Reworking the USMCA
63 Buttonwood South Africa
stumbles
64 Green central banking
65 Rates and the Riksbank
65 The lure of even odds
66 Free exchangeAmerica’s
Great ReversalScience & technology
67 Fighting tuberculosis
68 DNA data storage
69 Transparent solar cells
70 How cetaceans got so big
70 The oldest art galleryBooks & arts
71 Democracy in India
72 The case for migration
73 Music and politics
73 Opera with a conscience
74 Johnson The language
of impeachmentEconomic & financial indicators
76 Statistics on 42 economiesGraphic detail
77 A plurality of Americans—but not of states—back
impeachmentObituary
78 Paul Volcker, doughtiest of inflation-fighters