Books and Arts;Book Review;Classical music;Conjurors; 文艺;书评;古典音乐;音乐的魔术; Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras. 音乐就像点石成金一段与伟大的指挥家和乐团的奇妙旅程
Bitcoin in China 比特币在中国 A dream dispelled 美梦破碎 Chinese regulators make life hard for crypto-currencies 中国的监管机构使加密电子货币难以生存 NOT so long ago, China looked to be the promised land for crypto-currenc
Finance and economics 财经商业 Free exchange 自由交易 One of the giants 巨人 Ronald Coase, the economist who explained why firms exist, died on September 2nd, aged 102 罗纳德科斯,著名经济学家,于9月2日逝世,享年102岁。
Obituary;Nancy Wake; 讣告;南希威克; Nancy Wakesaboteur and special agent, died on August 7th, aged 98. 南希威克二战间功勋卓越的英国间谍特工,8月7日去世,享年98岁。 Convivial, and not averse to a drink, Nancy Wake
Obituary;Ray Anderson; 讣告;雷安德森; Ray Anderson, America's greenest businessman, died on August 8th, aged 77. 雷安德森,美国最具环保意识的生意人,于8月8日逝世,享年77岁。 WHEN Ray Anderson first encountere
1. illustrate v . 说明;表明;给加插图 Protectionist tariffs and farm subsidies illustrate the same problem . 贸易保护关税和对农场的补助也说明了同样的问题。 2. tolerate v . 容许;承认;忍受 Businesses that dep
Treating mental illness 心理疾病治疗 Body and soul 身体与灵魂 A professional schism hinders Britain's mental-health system 一个专业性的分裂阻碍英国心理健康系统 THE day after Mandy Peck tried to electrocute herself in the
APART from more money, what the city of Detroit needs most is certainty. Both are in short supply at the moment. On March 21st a state-appointed review team unanimously agreed that it is suffering a severe financial emergency. The day before, Moodys
The mayor of Detroit, Dave Bing, has seemed keen to negotiate a consent agreement between the city and the state. This would avoid a takeover, but would still set out exactly how the city must extricate itself from the crisis and manage itself in fut
Science and technology 科学技术 Reptilian micturition 爬行动物的排尿 That's a relief 可算是方便了 Softshell turtles urinate through their mouths 鳖类通过其嘴部小便 WHY did the turtle stick its head in a bucket? 为什么乌龟
Finance and economics 财经商业 Five years after Lehman 图表看雷曼尽五年变迁 The world of banking has changed dramatically, if not radically, in the five years since September 15th 2008, the day Lehman Brothers went bust. 2008年9月15日,
Political advertising 政治宣传 Posters aren't working 海报其实很无能 The pros and cons of Britain's favourite political campaign tactic 英国应用最广政治竞选策略之利弊 WHO really runs this country? UKIP poses that question on
Obitury;Otto von Habsburg; 讣告;奥托冯哈布斯堡大公; Archduke Otto von Habsburg, son of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, died on July 4th, aged 98. 奥托冯哈布斯堡大公,奥匈帝国末代皇帝之子于7月4日逝世,享年
Science and technology 科学技术 Marine ecology 海洋生态 Welcome to the plastisphere 欢迎来到塑料星球 What is pollution to some is opportunity to others 对一些人意味着污染对另一些人却意味着是机会 SINCE 2008 geologi
Finance and economics: Property taxes: Home bias 财经:房产税:本土偏好 A taxing problem for foreign buyers. 外籍买家的房产税难题。 Even in hot markets like Vancouver, property sales normally slow in the summer. 即使温哥华的
Business 商业报道 Christmas trees 圣诞树 Boughs of jolly 喜乐的枝桠 Farmers and vendors see green in fresh-cut Christmas trees 农户和商贩在新砍的圣诞树上看到希望 FRANOIS, also known as The Tree Man, 弗朗索瓦,也被人
Logging in Cambodia 柬埔寨乱砍滥伐 Dead wood 树木之死 A resurgence in illegal logging takes its toll 非法砍伐再度猖獗 OF THE five dirt-poor farmers who set out from Chhoeu Slab village in November in search of rosewood, only four r
Books amp; Arts 图书与艺术 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 大都会艺术博物馆 The Metropolitans new director gives his first interview 与大都会博物馆新管理人的初次面谈 I FEEL like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz; picked up by a
Yemenis and Saudis 也门人和沙特人之间 Love across the line 跨越边界的爱恋 The geopolitics of illicit love 地缘政治间的非法恋爱 FOR daysYemenhas been abuzz with talk of Huda and Arafat. Huda al-Niran, a 22-year-old Saudi woma
Saudi Arabia and the United States 沙特跟老美 Awkward relations 别扭扭 The American president and the Saudi king will have an unusually edgy meeting 美国总统与沙特国王将展开一次绝无仅有的紧张会谈 BARACK OBAMA may recall
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