The second is the realisation that players will happily pay real money for virtual goods. 第二,玩家将更愿意为虚拟商品支付真实资金。 These can be upgrades, costumes or weapons for their in-game characters, 虚拟商品可能是游戏

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Leaders 社论 Video games 电子游戏 The price of free 免费的代价 The rush to extract money from players risks a regulatory backlash 急于榨取玩家资金会带来监管反弹风险 Moral Panics over new media are old hat. 新媒体带来的

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Leaders 社论 Cosmology 宇宙学 Man suddenly sees the start of the universe 揭秘宇宙的起源 The quest to understand reality takes a great leap backwards 科学新突破探索宇宙诞生之初的真相 IN THE beginning was the word and the w

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Leaders 社论 The new world order 国际新秩序 The post-Soviet world order was far from perfect, but Vladimir Putin's idea for replacing it is much worse 后苏联时代世界秩序远不够完美,普京构建新秩序的想法却更糟 IN PEOP

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The NRA also claims to be a potent force in elections; it says it defeated 19 of the 24 congressmen who were on its hit-list back in 1994. But a recent article in American Prospect disputes such assertions, arguing that the NRAs impact is marginal th

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Books and Arts;Book Review;New American fiction;Tainted love;Dirtby DAVID VANN. 文艺;书评;一部新的美国小说;堕落的爱;《丑事》大卫范恩著。 DAVID VANNs first short-story collection, Legend of a Suicide, was an arresting

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Books and arts;book review; 文艺;书评; James Fenton's poetry;Flower power; 詹姆士.芬顿的诗;诗歌的力量; A modern master goes from strength to strength; 一位逐渐成长起来的当代诗坛巨匠; Yellow Tulipspoem;by JAMES

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MORMONS are outing themselves. In 2010 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched a multi-million-dollar campaign to counter misconceptions about the religion, and last October it was vastly expanded. Billboards have now gone up in a do

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CHEERS greeted Barack Obamas hiring of Cass Sunstein away from the University of Chicago. Mr Sunstein, a lawyer, now head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is in charge of lifting the heavy hand of regulation from Americas economy.

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OCCUPY WALL STREET may be long gone from lower Manhattan, but worries persist about the gap between Americas richest 1% and the rest. Talk of inequality pervades the presidential race. In his January state-of-the-union message, Barack Obama called th

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Anti-corruption protests in India 印度的反腐败抗议 I, the people 吾即万民 An anti-graft crusader steamrolls ahapless government 一位反腐改革者施压一个不幸的政府 Aug 27th 2011 | DELHI | from the print edition SQUELCHING bar

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Gilts as a safe haven for investors 金边债券,投资者的安全港 Whatever floats your boat 只要人民高兴 Long-term interest rates are mercifully low, despite Britains huge budget deficit 英国预算赤字再高,低利率也会始终如一

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Louboutin v YSL 红底鞋之争 Lay off my red-soled shoes 离我的红底鞋远点! Can a colour be a trademark? 单一的颜色也能成为注册商标吗? Aug 20th 2011 | from the print edition APPEARING on So You Think You Can Dance, an Ameri

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American business 美国商业 Big Apple v Big Oil 苹果vs美孚 Apple briefly becomes the worlds largest public company 苹果一度成为世界第一大市值公司 Aug 13th 2011 | SAN FRANCISCO| from the print edition BY ANY standards it is a rem

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Googles takeover of Motorola Mobility Google收购摩托罗拉移动部分 Patently different 截然不同 The battle in the mobile industry takes an unexpected turn 移动通信行业之争出现意外转折 Aug 20th 2011 | from the print edition WH

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The Post Office 邮政局 Neither snow nor rain Nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers. But the internet will 鹅毛大雪 倾盆大雨 炎炎烈日,昏暗夜色都无法使邮差停止送信。但因特网能。 Aug 20th 2011 | LOS ANGELES

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Intellectual property知识产权 Inventive warfare创智财富 Battles over patents are becoming fiercer and more expensive 专利之争更猛烈,更烧钱 Aug 20th 2011 | from the print edition THIS deal is all about patents. That was the near un

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The acceptable face of Facebook Facebook中一个可亲的面孔 Social skills for a social network 一个社交网站所需的社交能力 Jul 21st 2011 | SAN FRANCISCO | from The Economist print edition Few corporate types can charm hardened hacks

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China's currency 中国的货币 the rise of the redback 人民币的崛起 China will have to open its financial market if it wants the yuan to rival the dollar 如果想让人民币击败美元,中国必须开放其金融市场 Jan 20th 2011 | fr

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North Koreas train-lover 朝鲜那个爱坐火车的主儿 A China hedge? 防范中国? A hermit makes a rare venture out of his kingdom 深居简出的金将军,罕見地走出国门到外面风险投机 Aug 27th 2011 | BEIJING AND TOKYO | from

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