Antarctica 南极洲 Core values 核心价值 The southern continent hots up 南方大陆热闹起来了 ANTARCTICA is 2,700km away. Yet as the brief austral summer fades, for Hobart, the capital of the Australian state of Tasmania, it is big busines

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E-commerce in South-East Asia 东南亚电商 Home-field advantage 本土优势 The global online-shopping giants may not find it easy to conquer the region 全球的电商巨人可能都难以征服这一地区 TROPICAL rain pounds on the roof of a

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Care insurance 护理保险 Forever young 前景光明 Nobody wants to insure themselves against the cost of end-of-life care 没有人能保证他们不需要生命终期护理 GOOD news for cruise ships: the ranks of the over-65s grew by 1.4m over

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Apple 苹果公司 iThrone 霸业已成 Apple reigns supreme when it comes to making money, but now faces even greater expectations 说到企业的赚钱能力方面,苹果公司无疑是全球的霸主,但现在他们却面临着更高的期望

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Bratain 英国 A Tory titan retires 一托利党巨人退休 William, it was really nothing 威廉,真的没关系 The Conservatives bid farewell to a talented parliamentarian 保守党向一名才华横溢的国会议员告别 THE high esteem in w

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Russia's politics of memory 俄罗斯的政界往事 NemtsovBridge 涅姆佐夫桥 A fight over the site of a politician's killing is a proxy for a broader battle 关于政治家遇刺之地的争论标志着论战范围扩大化 Remembered with love

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Ethnic minorities in France 法国少数民族 An edgy inquiry 一项前卫调查 A taboo on studying immigrant families' performance is fraying 打破调查移民家庭表现的禁忌 BY LAW, French authorities cannot collect ethnic statistics. All

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Teacher recruitment 教师招募 Those who can 能者胜任 How to turn teaching into a job that attracts high-flyers 怎样使得教学变成了吸引成功人士的工作 IMAGINE a job where excellence does nothing to improve your pay or chances of

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Migrants in the Mediterranean 地中海移民 The numbers nightmare 令人发指的人数 Ever more people are drowning while trying to get to Europe 越来越多的人在前往欧洲的道路上溺水身亡 IN THE sea separating north Africa from th

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Britain 英国 NIMBYism and the election 邻避主义与选举 The anti-tarmac vote 柏油碎石路反对者投票 The Conservatives are getting squeezed over big building projects 保守党在大型建筑工程上束手无策 ON first glance, the co

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Balkan warriors abroad 国外的巴尔干战士 Fight the good fight 为正义而战 With the Western Balkans at peace, some go abroad to look for war 西巴尔干地区一片和平,有些人因此赴国外参战 FROM the Sea of Azov to Aleppo, fig

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The United States, Japan and trade 亚太贸易协定:美国与日本 Don't treat trade as a weapon 别将贸易协定作为武器 An Asian-Pacific trade deal looks within reach, but politicians should stop seeing it as a way to contain China 亚太贸

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Greece's finance minister 希腊财政部长 Absent professor 心不在焉的教授 The immovable Yanis Varoufakis 毫不动摇的雅尼斯瓦鲁法克斯 ALMOST every recent Greek finance minister has been an Athens university economics professor mo

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French elections 法国省议会选举 Menage a trios 三雄争霸 The National Front's strength makes French politics a three-way affair 极右翼国民前线实力增强,法国政治陷三雄争霸局面 SOMETIMES small elections are markers of m

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OLDER people are not the only ones to try too hard to be hip and youthful. Long-established firms can, too. 年长者并非唯一努力让自己看起来时髦年轻的人。老牌企业也会如此。 Just look at Procter Gamble (PG), one of the wor

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Some large companies have made dramatic changes. 一些大型公司做出了巨大改变。 ConAgra, an American food giant, has simplified its recipes and eliminated all artificial ingredients from many of its snacks and ready meals. 美国食品巨头

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MANAGEMENT books have a deservedly poor reputation. 管理学书籍活该口碑差。 Too often they are written by people who confuse insight with jargon, the types who love to call a spade a manual horticultural utensil. 这些书的作者常是那些

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Open-plan offices are particularly bad at providing an environment for calm, creative work, they argue. So library rules are imposed at Basecamp. 尤其是敞开式的办公室,更难为创造性工作提供一个安静的环境,他们争论到。因

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Cartel-busting 商业组织联合体机制正被打破 Boring can still be bad 无趣之势依旧呈现糟糕状态 Market-rigging in unsexy industries costs consumers a lot. More can be done to detect and deter it. 无聊行业在操纵市场方面使

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Thailand 泰国 Everything is broken 支离破碎 Long in crisis, Thailand is close to the brink. Without compromises on both sides, it may well collapse 深陷危机,泰国局势急转直下。对峙双方若互不让步,该国局势可能即将崩

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