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India is not the first country to leapfrog from poverty-induced undernourishment to also having an obesity crisis\u2014but a number of factors make that a far chunkier problem than it is elsewhere. A shock local-election result in Turkey suggests the country\u2019s strongman leader may not be so strong (9:48). And China\u2019s solar-panel bonanza upsets the lucrative market for ultra-pure sand (17:43).

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