Business. 商业。 Air India. 印度航空业。 Flying low. 在低迷中飞行。 India's flag carrier is in big trouble. 印度国家航空公司有大麻烦了。 WELL-TO-DO Indian graduates used to line up to join Air India. The national carrier
Debating 辩论 This house believes 本方认为 Some schools are teaching children how to think for themselves 有些学校正在教孩子们如何独立思考 Sep 14th 2013 | SHANGHAI |From the print edition IN CHINESE classrooms, students rarely q
The burden on students 学生的压力 Must not try harder 不能更努力了 The education ministry tries to ban homework 教育部尝试禁止家庭作业。 Sep 7th 2013 | BEIJING |From the print editionPURGES may be what political junkies are tal
Business in the UAE 阿联酋商业 Improving the desert climate 提升沙漠气候 A draft companies law in the emirates is a bit disappointing 阿联酋的公司法草案不孚众望 FOREIGN investment is flooding back, the malls are filling with s
Buttonwood 梧桐树 On their own 自力更生 What explains the surge in self-employment? 是什么样的因素导致了自我雇佣现象激增呢? PERHAPS the future belongs to the self-employed. Steady jobs, after all, are hard to find. The ide
Business. 商业 Air conditioning 空调行业 Cool innovation 很酷的发明(制冷方面的发明) An upstart hopes to make rival cooling companies sweat 这个挑战者渴望把与之竞争的空调公司逼出汗来 ON A hot July day in 1902
Obituary 讣告 Whitney Houston 惠特妮?休斯顿 Whitney Elizabeth Houston, pop singer, died on February 11th, aged 48. 流行歌手惠特妮?伊丽莎白?休斯顿于2月11日逝去,享年48岁。 THE year was 1985, the scene Whitney Houston's
The Labour Party's funk 工党的下坡路 Running out of road 背离大路 Labour is an increasingly unpopular party with lots of popular policies 工党政策广受称赞,自己却日益遭嫌 IF POLITICAL platforms were the sum of their parts, t
Business 商业报道 Trade unions in America 美国工会组织 Chattanooga shoo-shoo 嘘~查特奴加 The union movement misses a big opportunity to halt its decline 汽车工会运动丢失阻止汽车行业衰落的大机会 VOLKSWAGEN'S factory
Business 商业报道 The circus business 马戏团商业 Sunstroke 日射热 Cirque du Soleil may be struggling, but the cluster around it is thriving 太阳马戏团或许正处于苦斗之中,但围绕其四周的星团正熠熠发光。 No lion
Online business and security 网络商业及网络安全 A digital heart attack 电子心脏病 A flaw in popular internet-security software could have serious consequences for all sorts of business 广泛使用的网络安全软件出现漏洞,可能
Frontier markets 前沿市场 Wedge beyond the edge 出险招,赚大钱 Money is leaving emerging markets for riskier bets at the investment frontier 资本正从新兴市场流向前沿市场,追逐更具风险投资 MANY of Africa's roads are s
IN 1989 Edward Kennedy tried to stop time. The United States Coast Guard was preparing to automate and remove all remaining personnel from the old lighthouse in Boston Harbour. But Kennedy, a liberal senator from a family with deep roots in Boston, s
AMERICAS wealthy, lured by the mineral springs, flocked to Saratoga during the 19th century. Gilded-Age figures such as J.P. Morgan, the financier, summered there. The race course, which opened in 1863, became a huge draw. Even James Bond placed a fl
books and arts 文艺 book review 书评 New fiction 新小说 Tudor prose 都铎王朝那些事儿 Bring Up the Bodies.By Hilary Mantel. 《死尸示众》拉里曼特尔著。 HILARY MANTEL'S Man Booker prize-winning novel, Wolf Hall, was a momento
The BM says that the stele entered its collection in 1927, nine years after the collapse of the Ottoman empire, and it had been acquired in Syria, not in Turkey. The Turks were unimpressed. The British Museum has no sense of joint venture, says Ilber
Business 商业报道 Mining in Indonesia 印尼矿业 Smeltdown 熔炉决定生存 The government risks an export slump to boost the metals-processing industry 政府为了刺激金属加工业发展不惜冒着削减出口量的危险 INDONESIA'S g
Books and Arts; Opera Review; Damon Albarns new opera; 文艺;歌剧评论;戴蒙亚邦的新音乐剧; Star light, star bright;A meditation on England; 星光灿烂;英格兰的冥想; In 1572 a new star blazed through the sky. It was a ca
Obituary;Nora Ephron and Lonesome George 讣告;诺拉艾芙伦与孤独乔治 Nora Ephron, observer of sexual behaviour, died on June 26th, aged 71. Lonesome George, habitual abstainer, died on June 24th, aged perhaps 100 性行为观察家诺拉艾
Young voters 年轻选民 Apathetic fallacy 无情的谬误 Online voting could transform Britain's electorate 网络投票改变英国选民 Fancy a snap election? 喜欢临时选举? ONE-BY-ONE they approach the lectern, explaining why they will
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