Books and Arts; American foreign policy;Please don't go; 文艺;华府外交政策;山姆大叔请留步; A handful of books convey a mix of optimism and fear; 几本书,乐观与恐惧杂陈; America is irrepressible. Even authors fixated on its

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Books and Arts; Damien Hirst retrospective; 文艺;书评;达米安赫斯特回顾展; Is nothing sacred?The Tate Modern stamp of approval; 无所尊重吗?泰特现代美术馆的准入章; Damien Hirst may be rich and famous, but he d

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Books and Arts; Quantum physics 文艺;量子物理学 House of dreams;Scientists race to explain why the Higgs boson matters 想象的殿堂;科学家竞相解释为什么希格斯玻色子至关重要 Higgs Force: The Symmetry-Breaking Force

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Terminal care; 文艺;书评;临终关怀; Go gentle into that good night; 温和地走入那个良夜; The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life. By Ira Byock. 《可能是最好

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Books and Arts; Book Review; New fiction; Petals of blood; 文艺;书评;新小说;血色花瓣; David Grossman may have written his most important novel yet; 大卫格罗斯曼或许创作了一部他目前最具影响力的小说。 To the End of

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Books and Arts; Book Review;The drug industry; 文艺;书评;药业; Pick your pill out of a hat; 开药就好比抓阄; Bad Pharma. By Ben Goldacre. 《医药行业的恶劣行径》。作者:本戈尔达克尔。 Doctors like to project

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Books and Arts; Book Review;The spread of disease;Germs and money; 文艺;书评;疾病传播;细菌与金钱; Where and when will the next pandemic emerge? 下一次大范围流行病将于何时在哪里爆发? Contagion: How Commerce Has Spr

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Mass murder; 文艺;书评;大屠杀; History and its woes;How Stalin and Hitler enabled each other's crimes; 历史及其悲哀之处;斯大林和希特勒如何纵容彼此犯下大罪; Bloodlands: Europe

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Books and Arts; Book Review;The constant gardener;The future of wilderness 文艺;书评;永恒的守护者;荒野的未来; Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. By Emma Marris. 书名:《喧闹的花园:在人类统领的世

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Books and Arts; Exhibition Review;Human tresses; 文艺;书评;展览回顾;人类的头发; Hairy old myths;The power of pilosity; 三千青丝飘万年;头发的魔力; Blondes are dumber and brunettes more dependable. Or so it is said. But it

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Books and Arts;America and Iran;Cloud computing; 文艺;美伊问题;云计算; A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran, by Trita Parsi. 《孤注一掷:奥巴马的对伊政策》;特里塔帕塞著; With dark rumours swirling of

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Books and Arts; The Spanish civil war;Never forget; 文艺;西班牙内战;铭记于心; A dark time in history finally comes to light 一段黑暗史总将真相大白 In need of a truth commission 需要真相委員会 The Spanish Holocaust: Inqu

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Books and Arts;New fiction;A swan's song; 文艺;新生代小说;天鹅之歌; Peter Carey's delightful double story: The Chemistry of Tears,by Peter Carey. 彼得凯里悦人的双线故事:《泪水制剂》,彼得凯里著。 Few writers manag

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American Utopianism 美式乌托邦 Short-lived, much loved 短命的狂热 How American idealists withdrew from the mainstream to create their own paradise美国理想主义者退避俗世,自建天堂。 UTOPIANISM in politics gets a bad press. T

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Saudi Arabia's women drivers 沙特女司机 Ovarian issue 卵巢问题? Will Saudi women ever be allowed behind the wheel of a car? 沙特的女性能获得开车权吗? WHEN a group of Saudi women first took to the kingdom's roads to flout its

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Books and Arts; Book Review; Women and Islam;God-daughters; 文艺;书评;妇女和伊斯兰教;安拉与女人; A biography of two women whose lives have been transformed by militant Islam; 一本关于两个被伊斯兰激进主义改变人生

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Still in Books and Arts; Book Review; Joys of craftsmanship;Handy work 文艺;书评;手工技艺的乐趣;手工劳动; Made By Hand: Searching For Meaning in a Throwaway World. By Mark Frauenfelder. 《手工制作:在被抛弃的世界中寻

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Books and Arts; Book Review; New fiction from Japan; 文艺;书评;来自日本的新小说; Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side; 嗨,去野外散个步吧; A black cat, two moons and a host of nocturnal little people populate Haruki Mur

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CYBER sounds scary. Cyber-criminals can empty your bank account; cyberterrorists are the stuff of Hollywood thrillers. Cyber-espionage involves stealing state secrets or intellectual property. You do not have to understand how computers work to be wo

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Walking in London 漫步伦敦 Footfalls 足音 Urban pedestrians buck a national trend 伦敦步行者打破全国性趋势 LONDON is a city made for walking.Unlike, for instance, Los Angeles its centre is easily accessible on foot.Outer boroughs ar

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