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Foreign Policy

1. India Helps Iran Build the Bomb, While the White House Looks the Other Way
2. China Runs up African Debt
3. Bush's Post-Katrina Power Grab
4. Russia Fuels Latin American Arms Race
5. United States Funds the Taliban
6. Iran and Israel Hold Secret Talks
7. The Gender Gap Gets Smaller
8. Petro Powers Drop the Dollar
9. What's Worse Than Bird Flu? The Cure.
10. Hackable Passports 
    

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