MITT ROMNEY is not the first multi-millionaire to seek the presidency, nor the richest. Ross Perot, the record-holder, spent some of his billions earned from computer data on losing bids in 1992 and 1996. Since then men who owe their or their familys

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AIDS 艾滋病 Get your act together, guys 筒子们,一起行动吧! Two UN reports on AIDS are coming out this month. That is one too many 联合国将于本月发布两份艾滋报告,其中一份纯属多余。 SOMETHING odd is going on in

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Just deserts 沙漠 Poor access to fresh food is a solvable health problem 难于接近新鲜食品是一个可以解决的健康问题 THE corner shop on South Honore and West 59th in Englewood is an uninviting sort of place. Those windows that are

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United States 美国 The Russia investigation: Each to His Own 俄罗斯调查:各自为战 What better to counter accusations of a conspiracy than a conspiracy theory? 有什么比用阴谋论为自己的间谍罪平反更好的方法呢? It sho

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The Tories did best in constituencies that voted heavily for Brexit: in six of their eight new English seats the Leave vote was over 60%. 在进行选区保守党做的最好的,有很多选民支持退欧:在他们的八个新英国座位中,有

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South Koreas education system 韩国的教育体制 The great decompression 大减压 There are perils for a country in having all your children working too hard for one big exam 对一个国家来说,让所有孩子都为一场大型考试而精疲力

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Tourism and the economy 旅游与经济 Easy come, easy go 来也匆匆去也匆匆 Booming post-Olympics tourism wont boost the economy as much as hoped 蓬勃发展的后奥运旅游不会如期望那样提振经济 Sep 28th 2013 |From the print ed

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WITH the euro crisis in abeyance, high oil prices have become the latest source of worry for the world economy. Oil is the new Greece is a typical headline on a recent report by HSBC analysts. The fear is understandable. Oil markets are edgy; tension

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VOTERS in Texas have had three electoral excitements lately. The first was that in February, after a series of rejections, federal judges in San Antonio finally approved a new map for the states congressional districts, meaning that Texas could final

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Schumpeter The daughter also rises 天行健,女子以自强不息 Women are storming emerging-world boardrooms 女性席卷新兴世界的董事会 Aug 27th 2011 | from the print edition ZHANG YIN (also known by her Cantonese name, Cheung Yan) was

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Nonetheless Mr Romney cheerfully joined in the denunciation of Mr Perry for his breach of party doctrine. By the same token, when Newt Gingrich, another candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, suggested that illegal immigrants of good c

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DOES a bill that does nothing actually do something? This is not a Zen koan, but a legislative one, being tested this month in Tennessee. The bill in question required the states education system to encourage students to explore scientific questions

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Syria A step too far 叙利亚 偏离正轨 If Bashar Assad really has used chemical weapons on his own people in a big way, America must intervene 如果巴沙尔阿萨德真的对其子民大规模使用了化学武器,美国必须干涉了。 Au

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Leaders 头条关注 Genetically modified crops 转基因作物 Fields of beaten gold 遭受捣毁 Greens say climate-change deniers are unscientific and dangerous. So are greens who oppose GM crops 环保主义者表示,气候变化否认者是不科学

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Leaders 社论 Crisis in Ukraine 乌克兰危机 Not the same movie 不是同一场电影 The situation in Ukraine is volatile and dangerous. The West must act 对于乌克兰目前动荡,危险的局势,西方国家必须采取行动。 SAME pla

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Telecom networks 电信网络 Twos company 双巨头 In an industry with a cost leader and a price leader, is there room for others? 当一个行业里既有成本领导者又有价格领导者的时候,其它公司还有市场空间吗? REVOLUTION

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The economy Autumn leaves falling 经济秋叶落了 The growing troubles in the euro zone mean Britain is set for another recession 日益严重的欧元区危机,意味着英国将要面临下一轮衰退 PREPARE for some bad news. The prime mini

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Muammar Qaddafi 穆阿迈尔卡扎菲 Muammar Qaddafi, ruler of Libya, died on October 20th, aged 69 利比亚统治者穆阿迈尔卡扎菲于10月20日去世,享年69岁 AS THE rebel insurgency flowed and ebbed across Libya this year, it passed t

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Wislawa Szymborska 维斯瓦娃希姆博尔斯卡 Wislawa Szymborska, poet, died on February 1st, aged 88 维斯瓦娃希姆博尔斯卡,诗人,2月1日去世,享年88岁 WHEN Wislawa Szymborska won the world's top literary prize in 1996, her f

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American veterans 美国退役士兵 A hard homecoming 归途漫漫 Budget battles and a stagnant economy greet Americas soldiers as they return from Iraq and Afghanistan 美国士兵从战火纷飞的伊拉克和阿富汗回到家乡后,迎接他们

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