Audi R8 V-10
First drive: With two more cylinders, Audi's mid-engine R8 pushes further into supercar territory.

Express Delivery
Which Italian exotic delivers pizza with more aplomb, the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 or the Ferrari F430 Spider?

Dakar Rally
The legendary rally makes a successful transition from Africa to South America and remains the ultimate test of man and machine.

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Budget Backlash
Obama appears determined to keep his campaign promises. Business lobbyists gear up to stand in his way.

Waiting for the Bull
The most useful indicators signal more pain to come. Today's smart bets involve a seriously long time horizon.

Ford's Savior?
Alan Mulally was a car industry novice when he became Ford's CEO in 2006. But he immersed himself in the business and made bold moves quickly -- which is why America's original automaker is miles ahead of its Detroit rivals.

Emerging Market Report
North Africa's rising role in both the energy sector and manufacturing.

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World economy: The jobs crisis
It's coming, whatever governments do; but they can make it better or worse.

The London summit: The better part of valour
The G20 summit in London is setting out to do too much. It should concentrate on what needs doing right now.

Barack Obama's foreign policy: All very engaging
America's president has made a good start in foreign policy. But the hard choices are still to come.

Sudan: Compounding the crime
The case against Omar al-Bashir has opened a fissure between those who support justice and those who fear it.

America and climate change: Cap and binge
America's politicians are at last getting to grips with global warming, but in a dangerously expensive way.

Northern Ireland: Just when you thought it was safe
A spate of killings must not block the path to full power-sharing.

A special report on entrepreneurship
Despite the downturn, entrepreneurs are enjoying a renaissance the world over.

Electric vehicles: Batteries now included
The missing piece of the electric-car jigsaw has just turned up.

M&A: Signs of Life
Credit markets are perking up, stocks are weak, and the stage is set for a modest dealmaking revival -- but don't look for many megadeals yet.

Extreme Customer Service
As the economy swoons, consumers are demanding greater value and attention. But even in this climate, our customer service champs delivered.

How Amazon Aims to Keep You Clicking
It even covers for the customer service shortcomings of partners who sell on its site.

Brains in the Concrete and Steel
Smart technology that makes infrastructure safer and more efficient is ready just in time for a flood of government spending.

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 COVER: Best Actress: Kate Winslet's Moment - Intense, ambitious and only slightly panicked, Kate Winslet is the finest actress of her generation
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Lincoln Center's New Come-Hither Design - Performing-arts complexes want to connect with their neighborhood. One of them is succeeding
• HEALTH & MEDICINE: Twins and Aging: How Not to Look Old - Doctors studying identical twins uncover the surprising effects behavior has on aging
• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Danny Boyle - The Slumdog Millionaire director shares his Mumbai tales. Danny Boyle will now take your questions

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Nationalization: Who Would Bear the Pain?
Bank bondholders have gotten off easy so far. Government takeovers might change that.

Europe
It avoided the subprime loan mess, but now it's struggling to prop up subprime countries.

The Next Net
What if companies knew where their customers were every minute of the day? The marketing opportunities would be many -- but so would the privacy concerns.

Undergraduate B-Schools
Our Top 10 work hard to get grads jobs.

Life Management
Now it's the boss who wants employees to work from home. Why? Big savings.

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About the Cover
Space is not completely empty; the vacuum teems with quantum mechanical energy fluctuations able to generate an attractive force between objects that are very close to each other. This "Casimir-Lifshitz" force can cause static friction or "stiction" in nanomachines, which must be strongly reduced. Until now only attractive interactions have been reported but in theory, if vacuum is replaced by certain media, Casimir–Lifshitz forces should become repulsive. This has now been confirmed experimentally.

Biotechs feel the pain
The biotechnology industry is weathering the financial crisis better than some. That doesn't mean it's in great shape.

European boost for particle therapy
Treatment centres poised to use carbon-ion beams to tackle cancer.

Ocean research: The lab at the bottom of the sea
The best way to study life beneath the waves is to live there. Mark Schrope describes his experiences in the world's longest-running undersea laboratory.

Forestry: A green investment
If growing forests in India can generate lucrative carbon credits, then why isn't everyone planting trees?

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Recipes for Amazing Shots
Easy step-by-step instructions for cooking up classic nature photos.

Going to Extremes
Adventure photographer Jimmy Chin defies nature to get the shot.

2008 Camera of the Year
Editors name the camera that best refined or redefined photography in the past year.

DSLR Test
Nikon D3X: The new 24.5MP full-framer is built for power.

DSLR Test
Olympus E-30: Get your art on with 12.3MP of fun.

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Eastern Europe's woes: The bill that could break up Europe
If eastern Europe goes down, it may take the European Union with it.

The White House and America's banks: In knots over nationalisation
State control of some banks is sadly unavoidable. Don't run away from it; focus on doing it well.

Investor relations: To forecast or not to forecast?
Beware firms that refuse to issue annual financial targets.

China and Tibet: Another year of the Iron Fist
If this is success, maybe China should look for an alternative.

The waste industry: A load of rubbish
What's wrong with policies on waste, and how to get them right.

UBS: Called to account
UBS pays the price of its American follies with a galling change of leadership.

Public order: The kindness of crowds
Crowds of people are often seen as bad for public order. But they have ways of policing themselves that the police might do well to understand.

Social networks: Primates on Facebook
Even online, the neocortex is the limit.

A special report on waste: Talking rubbish
Environmental worries have transformed the waste industry. But governments' policies remain largely incoherent.