• And he claims to have a geography-defying plan to lead Britain into the heart of Europe through the mechanism of the single currency.

    ECONOMIST: New Labour’s morning after | The

  • Within hours thousands of news services have been marking the geography of death and illness, pointing to an usually aggressive outbreak of what appears to be a rampant strain of E. coli.

    FORBES: The Best and Worst of Times: Killer Vegetables, Plunging Markets, Infinite Nature

  • By virtue of our peculiar history (Model T) and sprawling geography, we have come to see ourselves as singularly entitled, automotively.

    WSJ: Why Driverless Cars Are Inevitable��and a Good Thing

  • The internet's erasure of geography lets people have a flutter without having to leave their living-rooms for the Bellagio's bombast or the shabbiness of the local dive (see article).

    ECONOMIST: Gambling prohibition

  • Language, geography and history have combined to isolate Brazil from its Spanish-speaking neighbours on the far side of the Amazon rainforest and the Parana basin, let alone from the wider world.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil��s 500 years of solitude

  • But the region's geography and old ties have, for the present, given Russia the advantage.

    ECONOMIST: Central Asia and Russia

  • Mike Linksvayer ponders the options for demolishing freeways in Oakland, CA. I know nothing about Oakland geography, so I have no opinions about his recommendations, but this seems like a worthwhile conversation for people in the Bay Area to be having.

    FORBES: Link Roundup

  • But, together with the country's geography, it seems to have been remarkably successful in keeping away boatloads of would-be refugees.

    ECONOMIST: Asylum: A strange sort of sanctuary | The

  • Credit unions have membership requirements, often based on geography or employer.

    WSJ: New College Lenders Step Up

  • Africans have long been divided by history and geography.

    NPR: African Guitarists Have Arrived at a New Style

  • And America knows from its history that its reach goes far beyond its geography For a century you have carried upon your shoulders the greatest of responsibilities: to work with and for the rest of the world.

    BBC: In full: Brown's speech to Congress

  • But the enrolment of Prince William, in his final year of a four-year geography degree, is thought to have boosted the university's reputation among the English privately-educated gentry.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | St Andrews tries to curb elitism

  • Now it is Liverpool's turn to showcase all the advantages that history, geography and generous dollops of public funds have given it.

    ECONOMIST: Rejoicing in Liverpool

  • Riven since colonial times by ethnic divisions and handicapped by challenging geography, several of the Andean countries have long suffered poverty and instability.

    ECONOMIST: Outsiders should be doing more to help

  • Thanks to the vagaries of electoral geography, in recent elections Labour MPs have required many fewer votes to win, on average, than Conservative candidates.

    ECONOMIST: Voting reform

  • In April, Startup Compass compared start-ups by geography and found that those in Silicon Valley have, on average, 3.15 mentors, compared with 2.85 in New York and 2.15 in London.

    WSJ: Service Helps Start-Ups See Where They Stand

  • European populations have mixed so extensively with their neighbours that their genes mirror geography, rather than reflecting the paths of human migrations or language families.

    FORBES: The Human Genome at Ten

  • Such stories mark a big turnaround for diasporas, which over the last century have often had to wage an uphill struggle against time and geography.

    ECONOMIST: Diasporas

  • "We do have network issues in south and west Wales because of our geography, but we continue to work closely with our national network team to improve our position, " Mr Kelly said.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | Postal targets missed in cities

  • "The excitement of meeting new people with whom you have no 'friends' in common, only interests, geography or kinks, are probably enough (to propel the product), " Anthony Wing Kosner wrote at Forbes.com.

    CNN: John D. Sutter,

  • Sadly, today we have a horribly divided country with little that binds us other than history, geography and language.

    FORBES: Where Are Our Leaders? Blaming and Dividing

  • Instead, the company spends more time parsing through a person's LinkedIn profile to determine how long users have held jobs, the number and quality of connections in their industry and geography and the seniority of their connections.

    WSJ: Bad Credit? Start Tweeting

  • Like unemployment checks, retraining and other benefits, which vary wildly depending on factors such as geography, the Cobra subsidy has created a lopsided system of haves and have-nots.

    WSJ: Despite Subsidy, Cobra's Bite Still Stings for Many

  • The biggest problem, though, is that any ideas for coping with sprawl have always run up against local politics, racial tensions, history and, not least, geography.

    ECONOMIST: Urban sprawl

  • He became involved in the officer training corps while studying environmental geography at university, enlisted in the Territorial Army in October 2006 and was said to have had ambitions to attend Sandhurst.

    BBC: UK soldiers killed in Afghanistan are named

  • But it is so much faster that it has the power to reshape companies, create communities, eliminate geography, and revitalise the art of letter writing in a generation which had been thought to have been rendered incapable of it by television.

    ECONOMIST: Eventually, bigger means different

  • "We have been lucky, " says Antiparos mayor Yiannis Leventakis, chatting through an interpreter about the island's auspicious geography and Tsakonas's low-density concept.

    WSJ: Community by Design | Architecture

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