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Not long ago, a group of prominent British journalists, all female, went out for an evening to get drunk on gin.

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One of the recurrent themes at the United Nations’ spectacularly unsuccessful Rio+20 summit in June was the need to change how we measure wealth. Many argue that we must abandon our “obsession” with gross domestic product and develop a new “green” accounting standard to replace it. In fact, doing so could be a serious mistake

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As Mitt Romney’s campaign enters the   444 th round of debates about the candidate’s portfolio, as he explains when and how and with what Bain Capital statione ry he invested in what outsourcer, it’s a good time to ask: What ever happened to the businessman-turned-candidate?

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