Health reform 医疗改革 Mississippi spurning 密西西比吐槽不断 Obamacare hits trouble in the states 奥巴马的医保改革在美国麻烦不小 Jul 13th 2013 | JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI 2013年7月13日 BARACK OBAMAS health reform was supposed

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Turkeys cultural ambitions 土耳其的文化雄心 Of marbles and men 大理石和人 Turkey gets tough with foreign museums and launches a new culture war 土耳其对外国博物馆采取强硬态度,并发动一场新的文化战争 IN THE spri

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Science and Technology 科技 Rare earths and climate change 稀土与气候变化 In a hole? 陷入了危机? Demand for some rare-earth elements could rapidly outstrip supply 某些稀土元素可能很快会供不应求 MANY plans for reducing t

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Books and Arts; Book Review; 文艺;书评; Harry Belafonte's autobiography 亨瑞.贝拉方特式自传 Twentieth-century lion 20世纪雄狮 My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race and Defiance. By Harry Belafonte. 《吾之歌:艺术、种族、反抗

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Business. 商业。 Libraries and e-books 图书馆和电子书 Literary labours lent 文学劳动力已借出 The uncertain economics of lending virtual books 难以预料的实体书借阅经济 LIKE a tired marriage, the relationship between libra

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Digital dating 线上约会 Young, single and nearby 年轻,单身,附近 New ways to satisfy primeval passions 满足原始欲望的新形式 THE older generation never gets it. Anthony Weiner, a candidate for mayor of New York, admitted this we

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Horrible Bosses 恶老板 Truth is nicer than fiction 现实比电影好得多 A horrible film is generating a lame debate 一部糟糕的电影引发一场蹩脚的争论 Horrible bosses come in many flavours. There are psychopaths, bullies and prat

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Online nationalism 网络民族主义 Running dog eat dog 狗咬狗一嘴毛 Nationalists, united against Western media bias, are divided over money 爱国主义者联合起来反对西方媒体偏见,但是金钱将他们区分开来 Oct 19th 2013

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IT TOOK a month or so, but the killing of Trayvon Martin, a teenager who was shot in Florida in late February, has developed into a predictable political circus. Barack Obama has opined on it, as have the Republicans hoping to wrest the presidency fr

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ALL-WHITE neighbourhoods are effectively extinct, according to The End of the Segregated Century, a recent report by the Manhattan Institute, a New York think-tank. Only 0.5% of Americas 70,000 neighbourhoods are now all-white. In fact, American citi

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Business. 商业。 Clear Channel and radio broadcasting. 清晰频道通信公司与无线电广播。 Come stream with me. 跟我去发展流式音频吧。 Is there money in digital radio? 数字广播有钱可赚吗? FRANK SINATRA knew he was g

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Entrepreneurship and technology 企业家精神和科技 Wheres Britains Bill Gates? 英国的比尔?盖茨在哪? Britains government cannot conjure a technology giant out of thin air. But it can help 英国的政府不能凭空变出个科技行业巨

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The internet in China 中国互联网 Bashing Baidu 打击百度 State television fires on Chinas Google 国有电视台向中国谷歌开火 Aug 27th 2011 | from the print edition LAST year Google remembered its motto (Dont be evil) and stopped co-o

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THE object in question is really just a very large granite boulder. It weighs 340 tons and is the size of a house. It sat unappreciated in a California quarry until Michael Heizer, an artist, spotted it. He decided to haul the rock to a museum in Los

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HPs grand vision 惠普的远见 Aping IBM 效仿IBM HP needs to transform itself if it is to avoid becoming obsolete 要想不被淘汰,惠普需要改变自己 Aug 27th 2011 | from the print edition WHEN the board of HP, the worlds largest comput

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Liang Congjie, modern Chinas first environmentalist, died on October 28th, aged 78 现代中国首位环保人士梁从诫于10月28日辞世,享年78岁 UNTIL the air began to clog and burn, the rivers turned to sludge and desert sand began to sif

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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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Business. 商业。 Personalising online prices. 个性化网购价。 How deep are your pockets? 你的钱包有多鼓? Businesses are offered software that spots which customers will pay more. 能发现愿意多付钱客户的软件现可供企业使

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Business 商业报道 Law firms 律师事务所 Charging more, getting less 标价更高,收益更少 Lawyers' biggest customers are discovering that they can haggle 律师的最大客户们发现他们能与律师还价 THERE were groans in big co

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Science and technology. 科技。 Quieter traffic. 更安静的交通。 When the rubber hits the road. 当橡胶遇上公路。 Turning old tyres into new roads can help cut noise pollution. 把旧轮胎建成新式道路可以减少噪音污染。

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