Digital family trees 数字式家谱 This little isle 大不列颠这个小岛 A new website celebrates connections between Britons 一个新成立的网站对大不列颠关系网欣喜不已 TRACING family trees is a popular British pastime. Televi

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Women and jobs 女性和工作 What women do 女人们都做什么工作呢 Economic growth has surprisingly little effect on the wage gap 经济的增长出人意料地对工资差距没有多少影响 Sep 24th 2011 | from the print edition Study ha

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Business. 商业。 The music business. 唱片业。 Universal's gamble. 环球公司的赌博游戏。 A musical merger could create anew model, or a dozy mammoth. 唱片行业的并购案可能会催生一种新的商业模式,亦或者是一个行

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HTC's patent problems HTC 的专利问题 Android alert 安卓的警报 Using Googles Android software has given HTC a boost, but it may now make the Taiwanese handset-maker vulnerable to costly lawsuits 使用谷歌的安卓软件给HTC带来了业务

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At the box office 电影票房 My generation 自我时代 A new film divides public opinion 关于新电影,观众的观点褒贬不一 Champagnesocialists① 香槟社会主义者 A FILM about the hedonism of China's urban youth has laid bare the

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Brewing mergers 酿造商的并购 SABMillers tale SABMiller神话 Heroic Aussie beer-drinkers make Fosters a tempting takeover target 福斯特成为收购目标 澳大利亚啤酒消费者功不可没 Sep 24th 2011 | from the print edition FOSTERS,

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Science and technology. 科技。 Global health. 全球健康。 One potato, two potato, three potato. 一个懒汉,两个懒汉,三个懒汉。 An effort to count the world's sloths. 来数一数世界上的懒汉。 A PAPER in the Lancet, shame

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Michael Hart 迈克哈特 Michael Hart, father of e-books and founder of Project Gutenberg, died on September 6th, aged 64. 迈克哈特,电子书之父,古登堡计划创始人,于9月6日逝世,享年64岁。 AMONG the episodes in his life

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Intellectual property 知识产权 Inventive warfare 发明之战 Battles over patents are becoming fiercer and more expensive 专利之战,愈演愈烈,愈烈价更高 THIS deal is all about patents. That was the near universal view of Googles a

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Books and Arts; Opera review; Einstein on the beach; 文艺;歌剧评论;沙滩上的爱因斯坦; Breaking the waves; An avant-garde opera on a rare world tour. 乘风破浪;一部先锋歌剧正在进行世界巡演,机会难得。 THE mu

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Science and technology. 科技。 Astronomy. 天文学。 Psst. Want a space telescope? 喂,要太空望远镜吗? America's spies make a generous donation to NASA. 美国间谍机构对NASA慷慨捐赠。 AMERICA'S civilian space programme is bu

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Books and Arts;Book Review;Classical music;Conjurors; 文艺;书评;古典音乐;音乐的魔术; Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras. 音乐就像点石成金一段与伟大的指挥家和乐团的奇妙旅程

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Obituary;Nancy Wake; 讣告;南希威克; Nancy Wakesaboteur and special agent, died on August 7th, aged 98. 南希威克二战间功勋卓越的英国间谍特工,8月7日去世,享年98岁。 Convivial, and not averse to a drink, Nancy Wake

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Obituary;Ray Anderson; 讣告;雷安德森; Ray Anderson, America's greenest businessman, died on August 8th, aged 77. 雷安德森,美国最具环保意识的生意人,于8月8日逝世,享年77岁。 WHEN Ray Anderson first encountere

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APART from more money, what the city of Detroit needs most is certainty. Both are in short supply at the moment. On March 21st a state-appointed review team unanimously agreed that it is suffering a severe financial emergency. The day before, Moodys

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The mayor of Detroit, Dave Bing, has seemed keen to negotiate a consent agreement between the city and the state. This would avoid a takeover, but would still set out exactly how the city must extricate itself from the crisis and manage itself in fut

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Obitury;Otto von Habsburg; 讣告;奥托冯哈布斯堡大公; Archduke Otto von Habsburg, son of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, died on July 4th, aged 98. 奥托冯哈布斯堡大公,奥匈帝国末代皇帝之子于7月4日逝世,享年

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Logging in Cambodia 柬埔寨乱砍滥伐 Dead wood 树木之死 A resurgence in illegal logging takes its toll 非法砍伐再度猖獗 OF THE five dirt-poor farmers who set out from Chhoeu Slab village in November in search of rosewood, only four r

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Books amp; Arts 图书与艺术 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 大都会艺术博物馆 The Metropolitans new director gives his first interview 与大都会博物馆新管理人的初次面谈 I FEEL like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz; picked up by a

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The economics of good looks 美貌经济学 The line of beauty 貌美之人的界限 Pretty people still get the best deals in the market, from labour to love 外貌标致的人仍然最有市场,不论是找工作还是找情人 Aug 27th 2011 | fr

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