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Global employment outlook: Hire or fire?

Where employers are most optimistic, and pessimistic

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Living costs in big cities

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Where America's gay couples enjoy legal equality

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American dominance of the Oscars is declining

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Tumbling corporate-tax rates

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Offshore oil platforms operate at ever-greater depths

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Europe's most valuable football fans

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A history of America in cigar consumption

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Wall Street bonuses rose handsomely in 2009

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Time spent in retirement has sharply increased

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European countries that provide the best health care

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Where mobile-phone use is highest, and lowest

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Several countries will fail to make good on promises of aid this year

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How the well-off and well-educated pass their advantages on to their offspring

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