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January 2, 2012

2012's Global Hotspots to Watch

Bloomberg, Bloomberg

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Could the world in 2012 surprise us more than it did in 2011? Certainly, after Japan’s earthquake, the Middle East’s upheavals and Osama bin Laden’s death, the bar on shockers will be high.

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