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Our pattern-seeking brains and desire to be
special help explain our fears of the apocalypse.
Once again, the world is about to end. The latest
source of doomsday dread comes courtesy of the
ancient Mayans, whose calendar runs out in 2012,
as interpreted by a cadre of opportunistic
authors and
As China and India rise in tandem, their
relationship will shape world politics. Shame they do not get on better.
A hundred years ago it was perhaps already
possible to discern the rising powers whose
interaction and competition would shape the 20th
century. The sun that shone on the British em
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