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Deborah Hill Cone: Nice warmth if you can get it
While Zac Guildford gets forgiveness and life coaching, run-of-the-mill crims get locked up and ignored.

Tracey Barnett: Time to revisit small stories posing big questions
Weather engineering, suicidal soldiers and inconvenient truth for governments.

Election 2011: Small businesses' battlefield
The Herald examines where each party stands on big issues

Dark mood in election year as American Dream falters
Despair over political deadlock may yet produce a watershed poll result.

Deborah Hill Cone: Getting older - get used to it
Ageing afflicts us all eventually, so maybe it's time to declare truce in the battle of the generations.

One in seven billion - what's your number?
The world's seven billionth person will be born on October the 31, but what number are you?

World's population set to hit seven billion
Asia and Africa will determine future global population growth, writes The Independent's Hamish McRae.