18 December 2009

The Economist stories for the week of 17 December 2009

Reproductive biology
This one's for the girls; a study shows that stress induces mothers to spontaneously abort male fetuses.

Banks: Goodbye, or see you again?
Everyone's paying back TARP money. Not coincidentally, those that don't do so before the end of year can't give out mega-bonuses.

Spain's El Gordo lottery
I've always wondered how this thing works!

Direct democracy: The Tyranny of the Majority
California's constitution is even longer than Louisiana's; at least we can blame civil code.

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