Women in Turkey 土耳其妇女 Behind the veil 面纱背后 Womens influence in politics is growing, but it is still small 妇女在政治中的影响越来越大,但这影响还是很小 May 12th 2011 | ISTANBUL | from the print edition THIS week

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Current plans to raise the retirement age are not bold enough 目前提高退休年龄的计划不够大胆 PUT aside the cruise brochures and let the garden retain that natural look for a few more years. Demography and declining investment returns a

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Indias sex ratio is getting worse. The trend can be reversed. 印度的性别比例扭曲越加严重,这个趋势能够逆转 THE news from Indias 2011 census is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up;family size is stabilisi

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A special report on pensions养老保险特别报道Too much, too young太多,太年轻 Watch your wallets: the baby-boomers are beginning to retire 看住钱包:生育高峰期的一代人正在退休 WHEN MOST LABOUR was agricultural, people ge

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Jobs figures就业数据 A gentle tailwind进展顺利,但缓慢 Employment is moving, ever so slowly, in Barack Obamas direction 在奥巴马的指导下,就业率缓慢回升 ON APRIL 4th Barack Obama announced, to no ones surprise, that he wou

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Pakistan and China 巴基斯坦与中国 Sweet as can be? 真的能甜蜜吗? Even an all-weather friendship has limits 哪怕是永不背弃的友谊都有其极限 May 12th 2011 | BEIJING AND ISLAMABAD | fromThe Economist print edition Come rain

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Shale gas extraction 页岩天然气开采 The need to be seen to be clean 天然气是清洁能源吗? Natural-gas production is booming, but its green image is in question 天然气生产蒸蒸日上,但它的清洁能源形象却受到质疑 M

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The Republican nomination 共和党提名 The dance of the seven tweets 七推特之舞 The former speaker starts a presidential campaign 前众院议长开始总统竞选 May 12th 2011 | WASHINGTON, DC | from the print edition NEWT GINGRICH entered

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Hunger in North Korea 朝鲜的饥荒 Let them eat maize husks 让他们吃玉米皮 The politics of hunger in a brutal place 野蛮之地的饥荒政治 May 12th 2011 | SEOUL | from the print edition IT IS the time of year when the previous harvest

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Human-rights abuses 人权问题 Nothing new under the sun 日光之下无新事 Some dictators may have fallen, but human-rights abuses continue 也许有些独裁者已然倒下,但侵犯人权之事依旧存续 May 12th 2011 | OSLO | from the pr

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Global road safety全球道路安全 Fighting road kill 向道路杀手宣战 The WHO has a plan to make the worlds roads less lethal 世界卫生组织已经制订了一个计划,旨在减少道路死亡 May 12th 2011 | NEW YORK | from the print e

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Microsoft's gamble 微软的赌博 A big phone bill 微软天价收购Skype The price that Microsoft is paying for Skype looks high 微软将向Skype支付天价收购金 May 12th 2011 | SAN FRANCISCO | from The Economist print edition STEVE BALLMER

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Selling music companies 出售音乐集团 Siren song 塞壬之歌 No one wants to pay for music. Yet investors are splurging on music firms 人们不想为听歌付费,但投资者们仍在音乐公司上挥霍 May 12th 2011 | from the print editi

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Prison overcrowding 监狱人满为患 win for dignity 为尊严而战 The Supreme Court orders California to make its prisons more humane 最高法院要求加州监狱更加人性化 May 26th 2011 | LOS ANGELES | from the print edition Not that unu

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Economics focus经济聚焦 Drain or gain? 人才外流,是得还是失? Poor countries can end up benefiting when their brightest citizens emigrate 穷国最终会从人才外流中获益 WHEN people in rich countries worry about migration, they

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Japan's economy 日本经济 On a mission 使命在身 A rare reformist zeal is emerging in post-quake Japan. The government ignores it at the countrys peril 震后日本出现了少见的改革热情。政府不顾国家安危,对此置若罔闻 T

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Solar power 太阳能 The third way 第三种方法 A new method of making electricity from sunlight has just been tested 一种从太阳光得到能源的新方法正在尝试 AT THE moment, there are two reliable ways to make electricity from sunli

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Mothers of twins do not just get twice the bundle of joythey are also healthier than other mothers 拥有双胞胎的母亲不仅能得到双份的快乐,而且她们会比其她母亲更健康。 THROUGHOUT history, twins have provoked mixed feeli

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Europe's debt saga欧洲的债务援助行动 Every which way but solved 远未解决 A bail-out strategy as bankrupt as Greece should be ditched. It probably wont be 本应放弃像希腊一样没有偿债能力的纾困措施。但也许未必如此

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Busted flush 好景不再 How a Sino-Lao special economic zone hit the skids 一个中国老挝边境经济特区如何走向衰落 May 26th 2011 | BOTEN, LAOS | from the print edition AT HOME and abroad, China is a byword for fast-track development,

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