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International Science and technology The Economist January 27th 2018
50 Winter sports 66 Genomics
Skiing goes downhill Sequencing the world
67 Ethnomusicology
Business Beyond Babel
53 The car industry 68 Medicine
General Uber-Motors Liver in a box
54 Qualcomm’s woes 69 Supersonic flight
A fine habit Boom boxed
55 WhatsApp
Skiing Global warming and Zuckerberg’s other Books and arts Gene mapping An ambitious
ageing populations pose a headache effort to map, store and
double threat to winter sports. 70 Political thought disseminate genetic
The industry’s response is 55 Luxury goods Why liberalism failed information about much of life
making it all worse, page 50 Online, upmarket 71 Democracy in America on Earth gets under way,
56 The avocado market The Trump train page 66
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