This is a cyberspace equivalent of the fairytale about stone soup, in which two men set up a big pot full of water over a fire in a town square, drop in a stone, and start stirring.

ECONOMIST: Electronic commerce

Early one morning in July 2007, two men, Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky, broke into a house in the town of Cheshire.

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On July 14th, in the industrial town of Tarrassa, outside Barcelona, two Moroccan men were stabbed by Spanish youths.

ECONOMIST: Spain and race