Science and Technology 科技 A synthetic jellyfish that swims 人造水母水中游 Meet Medusoid, a bioengineered artificial jellyfish created by researchers at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard University. 这就是梅多索依德,

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Rehabilitating capitalism 文艺;书评;振兴资本主义 For those who have lost faith 只为重建信心 Why Capitalism? By Allan Meltzer. 《为何是资本主义?》作者:Allan Meltzer A Capitalism for the Pe

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Business. 商业。 Facebook Facebook Work in progress 逆流中前行 The stockmarket has lost no time in unfriending the social network 证券市场正加紧同社交网络解除好友关系 IT IS still gaining members-there were 955m by the end of

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Education and race 教育与种族 On the road 在路上 Ethnic-minority pupils are storming ahead, thanks partly to tutors 由于家庭教师的原因,少数民族学生总能在学业上拔得头筹 Nov 16th 2013 |From the print edition IN APRIL

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THE old Rackspace headquarters was stuffed to the gills. In 2007 the company, which offers cloud-computing and web-hosting services, had more than 1,000 employees in downtown San Antonio. People were crammed at folding tables in the hallway. They oft

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THE reanimation of Americas housing market has been a long time coming. Residential building last contributed positively to growth in 2005. Housing-construction employment has dropped 43% since then. Government efforts to resuscitate the market have

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Science and technology. 科技。 Geoengineering. 地理工程学。 Implicit promises. 包含着承诺。 A geoengineering experiment has come unstuck. But there will be more. 地理工程试验取得突破。可期待更多。 FOR the past few year

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WHEN Fred Luter, the pastor of a large congregation in a flood-damaged section of New Orleans, assumes the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) at its annual meeting in June, it will not be the usual passing of the baton for Americas l

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Science and technology. 科技。 Robots and psychology 机器人与心理学 Mapping the uncanny valley 了解恐怖谷理论 Why androids are scary 为什么人形机器人那么吓人 ARTIFICIALLY created beings, whether they be drawn or sculpted,

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Business. 商业。 Air India. 印度航空业。 Flying low. 在低迷中飞行。 India's flag carrier is in big trouble. 印度国家航空公司有大麻烦了。 WELL-TO-DO Indian graduates used to line up to join Air India. The national carrier

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Debating 辩论 This house believes 本方认为 Some schools are teaching children how to think for themselves 有些学校正在教孩子们如何独立思考 Sep 14th 2013 | SHANGHAI |From the print edition IN CHINESE classrooms, students rarely q

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The burden on students 学生的压力 Must not try harder 不能更努力了 The education ministry tries to ban homework 教育部尝试禁止家庭作业。 Sep 7th 2013 | BEIJING |From the print editionPURGES may be what political junkies are tal

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Business. 商业 Air conditioning 空调行业 Cool innovation 很酷的发明(制冷方面的发明) An upstart hopes to make rival cooling companies sweat 这个挑战者渴望把与之竞争的空调公司逼出汗来 ON A hot July day in 1902

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Obituary 讣告 Whitney Houston 惠特妮?休斯顿 Whitney Elizabeth Houston, pop singer, died on February 11th, aged 48. 流行歌手惠特妮?伊丽莎白?休斯顿于2月11日逝去,享年48岁。 THE year was 1985, the scene Whitney Houston's

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IN 1989 Edward Kennedy tried to stop time. The United States Coast Guard was preparing to automate and remove all remaining personnel from the old lighthouse in Boston Harbour. But Kennedy, a liberal senator from a family with deep roots in Boston, s

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AMERICAS wealthy, lured by the mineral springs, flocked to Saratoga during the 19th century. Gilded-Age figures such as J.P. Morgan, the financier, summered there. The race course, which opened in 1863, became a huge draw. Even James Bond placed a fl

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books and arts 文艺 book review 书评 New fiction 新小说 Tudor prose 都铎王朝那些事儿 Bring Up the Bodies.By Hilary Mantel. 《死尸示众》拉里曼特尔著。 HILARY MANTEL'S Man Booker prize-winning novel, Wolf Hall, was a momento

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The BM says that the stele entered its collection in 1927, nine years after the collapse of the Ottoman empire, and it had been acquired in Syria, not in Turkey. The Turks were unimpressed. The British Museum has no sense of joint venture, says Ilber

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Books and Arts; Opera Review; Damon Albarns new opera; 文艺;歌剧评论;戴蒙亚邦的新音乐剧; Star light, star bright;A meditation on England; 星光灿烂;英格兰的冥想; In 1572 a new star blazed through the sky. It was a ca

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Obituary;Nora Ephron and Lonesome George 讣告;诺拉艾芙伦与孤独乔治 Nora Ephron, observer of sexual behaviour, died on June 26th, aged 71. Lonesome George, habitual abstainer, died on June 24th, aged perhaps 100 性行为观察家诺拉艾

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