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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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