The old man and the sea 老人与海 He loved to rock the boat 他喜欢乘风破浪 Hemingways Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961. By Paul Hendrickson. Knopf. 《海明威的船:他生命中所热爱的一切,失去的一切,
Dying out 渐失其势 Little by little, countries are ditching the death penalty 各国逐渐放弃死刑 On September 19th Abdul Hamid al-Fakki, a Sudanese, was executed in Saudi Arabia for the crime of sorcery. On September 21st Troy Davis, a blac
Transporter of delight 传递快乐的使者 Happiness is in your DNA; and different races may have different propensities for it 基因决定幸福;而不同种族的幸福倾向不尽相同 Born smiling? 天生会笑? THE idea that the human pe
The case for smaller portions 赞成分家的理由 Should Pepsi break up? 百事应该拆分吗? IFIRMLY believe that Pepsicos value is maximised as one company, said IndraNooyi, the boss of PepsiCo, during the announcement of the companysthird-qu
Another brick in the wall 另辟蹊径 The rapid rise of newspaper paywalls 付费阅读的大幅增长 ON OCTOBER 10th the Baltimore Sun will join a fast-growing club. The newspaper will start tracking the number of times people read its stories onl
A beastly business 一个残忍的行业 Peaceful protests against animal testing are on the rise 反对动物实验的和平抗议活动正在高涨 A FOG of confusion shrouds British attitudes to animals. For a nation of pet-lovers, Britain has sur
Metal, heal thyself 金属,自己愈合吧 Materials science: Researchers have devised an ingenious way for the damaged surfaces of metals to repair themselves when they come to harm 材料科学:研究人员构想出了一种新颖独特的方法,
Bigger and better 整合之潮亦其壮大之势 Americas big hospital groups will continue to gobble up competitors 美国大型医疗集团将继续吞并小号医疗公司 HOSTILE takeovers are never polite. One fight in America, however, has beco
Not swatted yet 消灭疟疾任重道远 A new vaccine is one step towards a distant goal 一种新疫苗让人类离消灭疟疾更近了一步 MAN has vanquished only one disease, smallpox. In 2007 Bill Gates set out to eradicate another, malaria.
The Louisiana governors race 路易斯安那州州长竞选 Bobby laps the field 鲍比一举夺魁 Hints of a grander future in a comfortable victory 获胜轻而易举,美好未来初露端倪 THREE days before Louisianans headed to the polls on
Smaller is more beautiful 更小,却更美丽 Many other cities are battling problems almost as acute as Detroits 很多其他城市正在积极应对和底特律一样急迫的问题 THE five kinds of heirloom tomatoes on Joanna Lehrmans and Roxan
Clean water 清洁水源 Silver threads of life 生命的银丝带 A water filter that kills bacteria, rather than just removing them 新滤水器能够消灭细菌,而不单单是排除细菌 MORE than a billion people lack clean waterand in most
United States 美国 Farming in the Midwest: Rhyme Time 中西部的农业:重蹈覆辙? How bad is this farm slump? 这次农业危机有多严重? The farm crisis in the 1980s left a deep mark on the Midwest. 上世纪八十年代发生的农业
Asia 亚洲 Sri Lanka's Disappeared: No closure 斯里兰卡的失踪人员:尚未终结 The wounds of Civil War remain raw. 内战之殇仍在作痛。 I Still believe he's alive, says Tharsini Santhirabose with a glazed, fixed smile. Tharsini San
One of 12 children of a poor fisherman, Ms Santhirabose, now 34, says she volunteered to join the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam when she was 15, Santhirabose女士出生在一个以打渔为生的贫苦家庭,有11个兄弟姐妹。现在她已经
Europe 欧洲 Spanish Art: Exhibitionism 西班牙艺术:展览主义 The Prado's renaissance. 普拉多的文艺复兴。 At the turn of this century the Prado, Spain's premier art museum, slumbered in neglect. 本世纪之交,西班牙首屈一指
In a sensible compromise, entrance to the Prado is free for the last two hours of each day. 作为合乎情理的折中方案,每天最后俩小时进入普拉多是免费的。 Those who pay 15 euros to come earlier can contemplate Velazquez's Las
Middle East and Africa 中东与欧洲 African Rubbish: Plastic bantastic 非洲垃圾:禁塑令 Banning the bag is a small step. 禁止塑料袋只是一小步。 Littering in graveyards is generally frowned upon. 在墓地乱扔垃圾通常会引起
The ban was hailed by the United Nations Environment Programme as a breakthrough. 这个禁令被联合国环境规划署视为重大突破,推崇备至。 Our oceans are being turned into rubbish dumps, says Erik Solheim, the head of the agency. 艾
American farmers again started to farm more land. 美国农民又一次开始大面积耕种。 They also used more yield-boosting technologyas did farmers in other parts of the world. 他们也使用了更多增加产量的科技,就像世界各地的
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