Sailendra Nath Manna, a saint among footballers, died on February 27th, aged 87 足球场上的圣徒,赛伦德拉纳斯曼纳,2月27日逝世,终年87岁 THE game of football regularly produces playboys, celebrities, racists, billionaires, fas

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Books and Arts; Music Review; 文艺;音乐评论; The Aldeburgh World Orchestra 奥德伯格世界交响乐团 Beach music 余音袅袅在海滩 120 players from 35 countries have a ball 来自35个国家的120名音乐家齐聚一堂开party Th

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Leaders 社论 Britain's planning laws 英国规划法 An Englishman's home 英国人之家 The shortage of housing is a gathering national crisis. Rev up the bulldozers 英国住房匮乏,危机重重,应大兴土木! NOW that the economy is a

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Books and Arts; Book Review 文艺;书评 British politics;Backroom boy 英国政治; 幕后智者 In the Corridors of Power: An Autobiography. By David Lipsey. 《自传:在权力走廊》:作者David Lipsey。 Political memoirs generally do t

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Social attitudes 社会态度 Generation gap 代沟 Why a resurgence in support for the welfare state wont help Labour 为什么支持福利国家的呼声重起不利于工党 Sep 14th 2013 |From the print edition MANY reasons can be found why publi

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Football transfers 足球转会 Reassuringly expensive 天价 The financial gulf between English clubs and the rest of Europe is growing 英国足球俱乐部与欧洲其他俱乐部财力差距正在拉大。 Sep 7th 2013 |From the print edition FOO

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Science and technology. 科技。 Insect acrobatics. 昆虫的绝活。 Flipping roaches. 非常蟑螂。 How cockroaches vanish. 蟑螂是怎么消失不见的? ANYONE who has tried to swat a cockroach will know those insects' strange ability, in

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Not swatted yet 消灭疟疾任重道远 A new vaccine is one step towards a distant goal 一种新疫苗让人类离消灭疟疾更近了一步 MAN has vanquished only one disease, smallpox. In 2007 Bill Gates set out to eradicate another, malaria.

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Syrias new opposition leader 叙利亚新任反对派领袖 Better than the one before? 会比上一任更出色吗? A different man faces the same problems 换个面孔处理相同问题 Jul 13th 2013 | CAIRO |From the print edition Jarbas turn at

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Books and Arts; 文艺; Britain's third-world economy 英国的第三世界经济 Relegation for Albion 大不列颠的陨落 Going South: Why Britain Will Have A Third World Economy By 2014. By Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson. 《滑向全球之南:

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The Arab uprising 阿拉伯世界的起义 Hope springs eternal 希望永不泯灭 The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East.By Marc Lynch. 阿拉伯世界的起义:未完结的新中东革命。马克?里奇著。 THE Ar

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New poetry 新诗集 Sparks of warmth 温暖的火花 Love's Bonfire. By Tom Paulin. 《爱之篝火》汤姆 坡林著 TOM PAULIN, an Anglo-Irish poet and Oxford academic, is no stranger to the evocative power of words. He was born in Leeds in 1949

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Book Review; 书评; Eli Broad 埃利布罗德 Uncommonly unreasonable 不是不讲理 The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking. 不讲理的艺术:想法脱俗教会我们 Few businessmen have achieved as much as Eli Bro

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Business. 商业。 Women in management. 女性管理者。 A word from your sponsor. 后台一句话的事。 Time for women to stop being shrinking violets at work. 职场女性,从此不再羞答答的开。 I DON'T know any successful women who

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Books and Artts; Book review; 文艺;书评; Conundrums of science; 科学谜题; What is it for? 科学究竟有什么用? Scinece in the 20th century and beyond; by Jon Agar; 20世纪后科学;乔艾格著; SCIENCE works with problems b

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WHEN Newt Gingrichs presidential campaign foundered last summer, leading to the mass resignation of his staff and reports that his campaign debt exceeded $1m, the problem was not that he seemed to prefer luxury cruises through Greece and Turkey with

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THE difference between Barack Obama, leader and Barack Obama, campaigner is in the sleeves. When Mr Obama speaks as the presidentsober, calm, head of a nationhe tends to encase them in a suit jacket. When he speaks as a candidatefiery, enthusiastic,

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Technology firms and health care 科技公司和医疗保健 Heads in the cloud 头文字云 Digitising Americas health records could be a huge business. Will it? 美国的医疗记录数字化会是巨大商机吗? ALTHOUGH most rich countries, an

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Laura Pollan 劳拉普兰 Laura Pollan Toledo, teacher and human-rights campaigner, died on October 14th, aged 63. 劳拉普兰托莱多 教师和人权活动家,于10月14日去世,享年63岁。 THE house at 963 Calle Neptuno, in the centre of

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Carlos Fuentes 卡洛斯富恩特斯 Carlos Fuentes, man of letters, died on May 15th, aged 83 学者卡洛斯富恩特斯于5月15日逝世,享年83岁 EVERY summer holiday when he was at school, Carlos Fuentes would stay with his grandmothers, on

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