Vegetable oil 植物油 Whats cooking? 发生了什么事? Edible oils are filling fuel tanks as well as bellies 食用油填饱了肚子还要灌满油箱 Sep 17th 2011 | from the print edition OIL markets are full of uncertainty. Asian demand is bo

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Intellectual property知识产权 Many patents, still pending 悬而未决的专利 Congress tweaks, but does not overhaul, Americas patent system 国会将对美国专利制度进行小幅修改 Sep 10th 2011 | NEW YORK | from the print edition AFTE

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Human evolution 人类进化史 You look familiar 似曾相识 Another piece of humanitys family tree is fitted into place 南方古猿sediba的发现填补了人类家族谱系的关键空白 Sep 10th 2011 | from the print edition THE opening scene

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The world of adolescence 年青人的世界 The best days of their lives? 他们人生中最美好的时光? What drives the young 是什么因素驱使着年青人成长 Sep 17th 2011 | from the print edition Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of E

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Nature conservation 保护自然 The constant gardener 永恒的守护者 The future of wilderness 荒野的未来 Sep 17th 2011 | from the print edition Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. By Emma Marris. Bloomsbury; 224 pages;

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Energy in Japan 日本能源问题 Bright ideas needed 妙招告急 Japans power monopolies raise costs and stifle innovation 日本能源垄断企业拽高成本,扼杀创新 Sep 17th 2011 | TOKYO | from the print edition THE corridors were dark,

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American humour 美式幽默 Funny man 有趣的人 The talent of an American lyricist 一位富有天赋的美国抒情诗人 CALVIN TRILLIN made his reputation over four decades as the author of US Journal in the New Yorker, reporting extensively a

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Psychology 心理学 How dead is dead? 怎样死才算死? Sometimes, those who have died seem more alive than those who have not 有时,死人似乎比活人更活。 Aug 20th 2011 | from the print edition IN GENERAL, people are pretty good at d

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Vann Nath 凡纳 Vann Nath, a Cambodian who painted to stay alive, died on September 5th, aged 65 凡纳,用绘画保命的柬埔寨人,9月5日去世,享年65岁 Sep 17th 2011 | from the print edition WHEN he was 52, with a hand that still tre

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Moral philosophy 道德哲学 Goodness has nothing to do with it 无关善良 Utilitarians are not nice people 实用主义者并非好人 Sep 24th 2011 | from the print edition IN THE grand scheme of things Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are no

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Oncology and genetics 肿瘤遗传学 Grabbing cancer by the short and curlies 短发卡钳住癌症的新武器 A new technique for analysing tumours promises better understanding and more effective treatment 一项研究肿瘤的新技术为人类更

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New fiction新小说 Somali son索马里之子 A voice from Africa来自非洲的声音 Sep 17th 2011 | from the print edition Crossbones. By Nuruddin Farah. Riverhead; 389 pages; $27.95. Buy from Amazon.com 《死亡髅骷》;努鲁德因?法拉著;

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Microsoft and Intel 微软和英特尔 Wintel swings 微软和英特尔各觅新欢 The marriage that dominated personal computing becomes more open 强强联姻主导个人电脑市场之势日趋明朗 Sep 17th 2011 | from the print edition TOGETHE

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The revival of independent film 独立电影的复兴 Scripts, not effects 剧本才是王道,资金不是问题 Independent films are at last recovering from the slump 独立电影终于起死回生了 Im bored with the radio. Lets go to the cinem

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Amazon 亚马逊 The Walmart of the web 网络沃尔玛 The internet giants new tablet computer fits itsstrategy of developing big businesses by charging small prices 互联网巨头用低价战略,进军平板电脑市场 A couple of years after i

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Modernising creaking air-traffic systems will be a huge task 空中交通系统现代化进程任重道远 THESE days a $15,000 car comes with GPS satellite navigation fitted as standard. But a $150m airliner still has to be guided through the skies

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NANCY UPTON, an actress, entered an online contest to find an XL fashion model with shots of herself bathing in creamy salad dressing and covering her crotch with a large cherry pie. American Apparel, the clothes shop sponsoring the contest, snootily

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IT WAS always going to be a hard act to follow. On October 4th Apple staged a press conference to launch its latest iPhone and other gadgets. Tim Cook, the computing giants new chief executive, and his colleagues did a perfectly competent job of pres

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BLISS spreads across Lalos face as his glossy black locks are blown dry by cooing stylists. Dogs big and small are beautified for 100 pesos ($7.70) in the back of a perspex-walled van run by Fluffy Shower, a mobile pet-salon that visits Mexico Citys

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Two welcome new biographies of Charles Dickens whose birth 200 years ago will be celebrated next February 两本查尔斯狄更斯新传记,喜迎明年二月狄更斯诞辰200周年。 Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist. By Robert Dougl

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