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53 South Korea’s evangelicals
54 Farming tigers
55 Citizenship in Malaysia
55 A power struggle in India
56 Japan’s reclusesChina
57 Elections in Hong Kong
58 Antarctic ambitions
60 ChaguanForgotten
industrial heroesInternational
61 Immigrant districtsBusiness
63 The rise and rise of LVMH
64 Resilient Huawei
65 Transforming Novartis
65 “Purposeful” business
66 Storing renewable energy
67 Bartleby Misresearched
management
68 SchumpeterAlibaba’s
next chapterFinance & economics
71 Who killed the WTO?
73 Schwab and TD
Ameritrade
73 Cheering China’s defaults
74 ButtonwoodThe
hedge-fund game
75 Free exchange
Economics and electionsScience & technology
76 Same-sex animal mating
77 Rehearsing birdsong
78 An aircraft panic button
78 How ear bones evolved
78 The power of liquid air
79 The war on AIDSBooks & arts
80 The new socialism
81 The Dresden heist
82 Canadian fiction
82 Walter Raleigh’s life
83 JohnsonTalking to aliensEconomic & financial indicators
84 Statistics on 42 economiesGraphic detail
85 Do inheritance taxes boost states’ net revenues?Obituary
86 Raymond Poulidor, eternally second