City devolution 城市放权 Viva la Wolvolution 万岁 Few city regions are ready for the powers their leaders crave 领导求权若渴,奈何时机未到 WOLVERHAMPTON, a poor city in the West Midlands, and Solihull, a rich suburb 30 miles (48km)

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Boutique food shops 小型食品店 Deli-licious 美味的熟食 As supermarkets flounder, small food and drink retailers are booming 大型超市困境中挣扎之际,正是小型饮食零售店繁荣之时 Chi-chi cheese 琦琦奶酪 INVESTORS in

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Lexington 莱克星顿 The immigrant numbers game 移民的数字游戏 Why Barack Obama's partial amnesty won't be reversed 为什么奥巴马的局部赦令不会被逆转? SOMETIMES the hardest questions come from friendly crowds. Barack Obama o

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German universities 德国的大学 Between great and so-so 处于顶尖和一般之间 Not in the elite but improving, German universities bet on a middle way 虽非精英教育但一直在提高,德国的大学秉承着中庸之道 A GLANCE at th

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The European Commission 欧盟委员会 Friends in the right places 处在正确位置的朋友 The British are down, the Germans and east Europeans are up 英国势力不在,德国和东欧的势力崛起 I AM French, I am deeply French, but here

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Household wealth 家庭财富 The balance-sheet boom 资产负债表的繁荣 Household wealth, and debt, is forecast to swell in 2015 预计2015年家庭财富和债务将膨胀 WITH the excesses of Christmas nearly over, Britons are planning their

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Argentina's debt 阿根廷债务 Let's not make a deal 别签协议啦 Argentina may spurn a chance to settle with its creditors 阿根廷或将还债机会弃如敝履 WHEN Argentina defaulted on its debt for the second time in 13 years last July, t

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Air pollution 空气污染 The big smoke 雾都 Britain needs to do more to clean up its dirty air 英国需要采取更多措施来净化污浊的空气 VISITING Oxford Street, a road teeming with tatty shops and overcrowded with people, is plainly

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New homes 新家 Building blocks 添砖加瓦 The government makes a lame attempt to boost house-building 政府促进房地产建设的步伐跌跌撞撞 AS GEORGE OSBORNE prepared to deliver his autumn statement, on December 2nd, Danny Alexander, h

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Online entertainment 网上娱乐 A craze too foreign 热潮太洋 China tries to restrict foreign entertainment online 中国要限制网上的国外娱乐产品 FOR young professionals in China's cities, watching television online has become a part

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Air pollution 空气污染 Not breathing easy 呼吸不易 A Supreme Court ruling forces the government to deal with dirty air 英国最高法院的裁决迫使政府出策解决空气污染问题 BRITISH air is much clearer than it once was: in 1952

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Climate change and geoengineering 气候变化与地质工程学 Fears of a bright planet 地球发光,令人担心 Experiments designed to learn more about ways of geoengineering the climate should be allowed to proceed 为更好地利用工程学手

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Our country of the year 年度国家奖 Hope springs 希望在跳跃 This has been a bad year for nation-states. But someand one in particulardeserve congratulations 今年对于国家来说并不好,但是一些国家,特别是有一个国家,还

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Class on stage 社会舞台上的社会阶层 Charlie and the aspiration factory 查理和巧克力工厂 Why British theatre is obsessed with social mobility 为何英国戏剧如此痴迷社会流动性主题 THERE are several ways of retelling Cha

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Obituary: Helmut Schmidt Smoke and fire 赫尔穆特施密特 烟与火 Helmut Schmidt, Social Democrat chancellor of West Germany, died on November 10th, aged 96赫尔穆特施密特,西德的社会民主党总理,逝于11月10日,终年96岁H

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Stray dogs in Chile 智利的流浪犬 Spray as you go 想去哪就去哪 The state orders a sterilisation of stray mutts国家下令给流浪犬们杀菌 IT IS one of the first things that visitors to Santiago, the Chilean capital, ask: Why are ther

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Child-free businesses 店内无童 Nippers not wanted 孩子禁入 The rights and wrongs of banning babies 禁止孩子入内的是与非 IT IS a familiar sound. You are enjoying a quiet beer in your local watering-hole when someone starts crying. Un

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Cameron Todd Willingham 卡梅伦陶德威廉汉姆 Irrevocable 无法改变 Texas may well have killed an innocent man得克萨斯可能杀死了一名无辜者 Was the real villain a faulty wire? 真正的罪魁祸首是一根故障电线? ON THE

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The CIA and torture 中情局之用刑 Into the light 公诸于世 A pull-no-punches report is to be released一份毫不客气的报告即将公布 THOSE who do not publish history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them. That, in essence, is the conce

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Military uniforms 军装 Out of sight 真正隐形 Expense and stupidity too big to camouflage迷彩服也不再能伪装目标巨大的支出和愚蠢 I WEAR camo so I can feel safe, says Sean, a member of the navy reserve. He cannot quite fathom wh

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