The Economist - USA (2020-08-08)

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The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 3 1 Contents continues overleaf Contents The world this week 5 A summary of political andbusinessne ...

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The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 5 The world this week Politics A state of emergency was declared in Lebanon, after a huge explosion ...

6 The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 The world this week Business Inanextraordinaryturnof events,DonaldTrumpsaidhe wouldnowgivehisbles ...

Leaders 7 I nthenormalrunofthings,latesummerseesairportsinthe emerging world fill with nervous 18-year-olds, jetting off to be- ...

8 Leaders The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 1 I ndecember 2017 a ChinesetechnologyfirmcalledByteDance boughtMusical.ly,anappwhichleti ...

TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 Leaders 9 1 2 ThatmuchwasclearevenbeforetheexplosionshoweredBei- rutwithbrokenglassandpiecesofrubble ...

10 Leaders TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 2 P hiliplarkinwasonlyhalf-wrong.Sexdidn’tbeginin1963, asthepoetjoked;fora heftyminorityo ...

The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 Leaders 11 2 riot; to the uninformed, it sounded like a firm of architects. In 2002 about half of A ...

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14 TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 1 D ue to be completed in 2022, Boston University’s $141m data-sciences cen- tre will tower over ...

The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 BriefingCovid-19 and college 15 2 1 24-year-old from Mumbai, was supposed to start a masters in eco ...

16 BriefingCovid-19 and college The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 2 recruit the most globetrotters. Some of these institutions are in ...

TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 17 1 T hirty yearsago a thrusting activist called Narendra Modi helped to organ- ise a month-long po ...

18 Asia The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 2 ern state of Kerala. The bjp, in contrast, has propagated the notion that Hindus, who mak ...

The EconomistAugust 8th 2020 Asia 19 1 A t a busyintersection in Bangkok 15- year-old Benjamaporn Nivas sits in her school unifo ...

20 Asia TheEconomistAugust 8th 2020 2 Banyan Trojan democrat A s taiwanese contemplatedthe momentous occasion, in March 1996, of ...