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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/news_analysis_and_views/~3/yfWnEciPrpE/displaystory.cfm" title="pWorking days lost due to labour disputes/ppWORKERS on London\'s underground rail network begin a strike on Monday September 6th, while across the channel French workers are also on strike in protest at attempts by the government to change the retirement ..." target="_blank">Striking facts</a><br />');
document.write('pWorking days lost due to labour disputes/ppWORKERS on London\'s underground rail network begin a strike on Monday September 6th, while across the channel French workers are also on strike in protest at attempts by the government to change the retirement age. Both countries come fairly high on the list of countries that lose working days to labour disputes. South Africa, where Cosatu, a federation of unions with some 2m members, has been on strike since August 18th, also scores highly on this measure. But all of these places are left in they shade by the Canadians, who lost 2.2m working days to strikes last year. Greece, which is also fond of striking, does not appear on this chart as its numbers are not comparable./ppMore Daily charts .../pdiv class=\"feedflare\" a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=yfWnEciPrpE:5kQAaolfUak:yIl2AUoC8zA\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=yfWnEciPrpE:5kQAaolfUak:V_sGLiPBpWU\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?i=yfWnEciPrpE:5kQAaolfUak:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=yfWnEciPrpE:5kQAaolfUak:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?i=yfWnEciPrpE:5kQAaolfUak:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=yfWnEciPrpE:5kQAaolfUak:qj6IDK7rITs\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"/img/a /divimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/economist/news_analysis_and_views/~4/yfWnEciPrpE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/news_analysis_and_views/~3/csQEKUX7uVE/displaystory.cfm" title="pThe internet has become too important for governments to ignore/ppGOVERNMENTS are increasingly finding ways to enforce their laws in the digital realm. The most prominent is China#8217;s #8220;great firewall#8221;. But China is by no means the only count..." target="_blank">Please delete</a><br />');
document.write('pThe internet has become too important for governments to ignore/ppGOVERNMENTS are increasingly finding ways to enforce their laws in the digital realm. The most prominent is China#8217;s #8220;great firewall#8221;. But China is by no means the only country erecting borders in cyberspace. The OpenNet Initiative, an advocacy group, lists more than a dozen countries that block internet content for political, social and security reasons. They do not need especially clever technology: governments go increasingly after dominant online firms because they are easy to get hold of. In April Google published the numbers of requests it had received from official agencies to remove content or provide information about users. For more on how governments and companies are erecting borders in cyberspace see article./ppMore Daily charts .../pdiv class=\"feedflare\" a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=csQEKUX7uVE:CudcVf_XmIY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=csQEKUX7uVE:CudcVf_XmIY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?i=csQEKUX7uVE:CudcVf_XmIY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=csQEKUX7uVE:CudcVf_XmIY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?i=csQEKUX7uVE:CudcVf_XmIY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=csQEKUX7uVE:CudcVf_XmIY:qj6IDK7rITs\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"/img/a /divimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/economist/news_analysis_and_views/~4/csQEKUX7uVE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/news_analysis_and_views/~3/1vsGb6uJXpY/displaystory.cfm" title="pGalloping inflation in American college fees/ppFOR decades, college fees have risen faster than Americans#8217; ability to pay them. Median household income has grown by a factor of 6.5 in the past 40 years, but the cost of attending a state college has ..." target="_blank">Higher education</a><br />');
document.write('pGalloping inflation in American college fees/ppFOR decades, college fees have risen faster than Americans#8217; ability to pay them. Median household income has grown by a factor of 6.5 in the past 40 years, but the cost of attending a state college has increased by a factor of 15 for in-state students and 24 for out-of-state students. The cost of attending a private college has increased by a factor of more than 13 (a year in the Ivy League will set you back $38,000, excluding bed and board). Academic inflation makes most other kinds look modest by comparison. Students may not be getting a good deal in return (see story). .../pdiv class=\"feedflare\" a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=1vsGb6uJXpY:pWYVeZhbiFo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=1vsGb6uJXpY:pWYVeZhbiFo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?i=1vsGb6uJXpY:pWYVeZhbiFo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=1vsGb6uJXpY:pWYVeZhbiFo:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?i=1vsGb6uJXpY:pWYVeZhbiFo:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=1vsGb6uJXpY:pWYVeZhbiFo:qj6IDK7rITs\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"/img/a /divimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/economist/news_analysis_and_views/~4/1vsGb6uJXpY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/news_analysis_and_views/~3/VRQxAmNPd5o/displaystory.cfm" title="pChina now has more warships than America, according to the IISS/ppTHE International Institute for Strategic Studies (better known as the IISS), reckons China now has more warships than America, which long possessed the biggest fleet. As it can be hard to..." target="_blank">Naval gazing</a><br />');
document.write('pChina now has more warships than America, according to the IISS/ppTHE International Institute for Strategic Studies (better known as the IISS), reckons China now has more warships than America, which long possessed the biggest fleet. As it can be hard to distinguish a warship from other boats, the IISS uses its own definition of what counts and what does not. This striking trend is yet another manifestation of the rise of China. But it also reflect the cost of warships and other weapons built by America (see article). Philip Pugh, author of #8220;The Cost of Seapower#8221;, a 1986 study of shipbuilding costs since the end of the Napoleonic wars, argues that the industrial revolution made the problem more acute: the rapid pace of technological change set off a race to build bigger, more powerful, more heavily armed and better-protected battleships. At some point, as unit prices rise, one of two things must happen: countries must either scale back their ambition, or seek game-changing technology, as they did when the battleship gave way to the submarine and aircraft-carrier./ppMore Daily charts .../pdiv class=\"feedflare\" a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=VRQxAmNPd5o:rHQJxOBySdU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=VRQxAmNPd5o:rHQJxOBySdU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?i=VRQxAmNPd5o:rHQJxOBySdU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=VRQxAmNPd5o:rHQJxOBySdU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?i=VRQxAmNPd5o:rHQJxOBySdU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=VRQxAmNPd5o:rHQJxOBySdU:qj6IDK7rITs\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"/img/a /divimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/economist/news_analysis_and_views/~4/VRQxAmNPd5o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/news_analysis_and_views/~3/qh2YfaAoMb4/displaystory.cfm" title="pThe best-selling political memoirs in Britain/ppTONY BLAIR, Britain\'s former prime minister, published his memoirs on Wednesday September 1st. The few people who have already read them cover to cover report that, in addition to the familiar stuff about ..." target="_blank">Rivals</a><br />');
document.write('pThe best-selling political memoirs in Britain/ppTONY BLAIR, Britain\'s former prime minister, published his memoirs on Wednesday September 1st. The few people who have already read them cover to cover report that, in addition to the familiar stuff about how awful his relationship with Gordon Brown was, Mr Blair admits to being manipulative and to having a developed sense of his own destiny. The book is likely to sell well, though it seems that British book buyers are rather more interested in American politicians than in their own. Three of the four bestselling political memoirs in Britain (since barcodes made such things easier to count) are by Americans. The Brit who separates the Clintons near the top, comedian John O\'Farrell, was never really a politician: he stood for election once (in Maidenhead) and then made some rather archaic puns about the experience./ppMore Daily charts .../pdiv class=\"feedflare\" a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=qh2YfaAoMb4:D2x9rfY-g8k:yIl2AUoC8zA\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=qh2YfaAoMb4:D2x9rfY-g8k:V_sGLiPBpWU\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?i=qh2YfaAoMb4:D2x9rfY-g8k:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=qh2YfaAoMb4:D2x9rfY-g8k:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?i=qh2YfaAoMb4:D2x9rfY-g8k:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"/img/a a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?a=qh2YfaAoMb4:D2x9rfY-g8k:qj6IDK7rITs\"img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/economist/news_analysis_and_views?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"/img/a /divimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/economist/news_analysis_and_views/~4/qh2YfaAoMb4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/');
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