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Dec 21 2007 12:00am EDT

MM Recommends: 'Economist' Holiday Issue

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A lot of you probably subscribe to The Economist already, but if you don't, be sure to stop by a newsstand for its annual holiday issue. This is routinely the single best issue any magazine puts out all year. It's the one time all year Economist writers get to shrug off the magazine's urbane but somewhat straitening voice and dig deep into whatever catches their fancy.

My copy just came last night, but I'm looking forward to reading about the sex lives of pandas, the weird weather of 1783 and the truth about hunter-gatherer societies. That is, if I can get my hands on it. Fighting over who gets to read the year-end Economist first is something of a holiday tradition in my household ...


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