Books and Arts; Book Review; 文艺;书评; New fiction;Rings of truth 新小说;真实的故事 Gold. By Chris Cleave. 《赤子之心》,克瑞斯克里夫著。 Novels about sport are notoriously hard to pull off. It seems somewhat odd for

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Books and Arts;Book Review;New fiction;Trouble in pairs 文艺;书评;新书出炉;祸不单行 Beautiful Lies. By Clare Clark. 《美丽谎言》,克莱尔克拉克著买。 CLARE CLARK found her new heroine when she unearthed an article i

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George Daniels 手握乾坤:制表大师乔治丹尼尔斯 George Daniels, master watchmaker, died on October 21st, aged 85 近250年来最伟大的制表师乔治丹尼尔斯(George Daniels)于10月21日去世,享年85岁。 A SCHOOLBOY once

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Obituary;Lech Kaczynski 逝者;莱赫卡钦斯基 Lech Kaczynski, president of Poland, died in an air crash on April 10th, aged 60 波兰总统莱赫卡钦斯基4月10日坠机身亡,享年60岁 Charming in private, awkward in public, scrupulously

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Leaders 社论 Gene editing 基因编辑 The baby crisperer 婴儿保险盒 A Chinese scientist claims to have edited the genomes of two babies 中国科学家声称已成功编辑两名婴儿的基因 Humanity's power to control the four-letter code

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International 《国际》版块 Chickenomics 鸡肉经济 Ruling the roost 称雄 How chicken became the rich worlds most popular meat 鸡肉如何成为发达国家最受欢迎的肉类 In a shed on a poultry farm just outside Colchester, in south-

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Nor did the procedure fulfil any unmet medical need. 此程序也未能满足任何未知医疗需求。 For the child whose genome was edited to confer resistance, the claimed benefit is protection from a virus that she may never encounter 对于为产

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Efforts to curb access to the means to kill oneself can help, too. 限制自杀途径也能有所帮助。 Suicide is surprisingly impulsive. 自杀通常都是意料之外的冲动所致。 A study of young Chinese women who had tried to kill themse

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Why are these people now less likely to take their own lives? Urbanisation and greater freedom have helped. 为何这三类人自杀几率变低?城市化和更多自由起到了帮助作用。 Accounts of those who attempt suicide, and of the rela

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Leaders 社论 Suicide 自杀 Staying alive 活着 Why suicide is falling around the world, and how to bring the numbers down further still 为何世界各地自杀率都有下降?如何进一步降低自杀率? You know, says a trader in Margin

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The intense use of antibiotics means that farmers no longer need to spend much time worrying about their chickens' welfare. 大量使用抗生素,这意味着农民不再需要花太多时间担心鸡的健康。 Before the second world war, most b

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Similarly, the European Union banned the import of chlorinated American chicken in 1997, owing to concern that a chlorine wash allows lower hygiene standards in farms. 同样,欧盟在1997年禁止进口氯化美国鸡肉,因为担心用氯清洗会

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Concerns about the health of livestock have also led the EU to pass some of the worlds strictest animal-welfare laws. 欧盟担忧牲畜健康,这促使其通过了世界上最严格的动物福利法。 Battery cages for egg-laying hens were banned

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Leaders 社论 Climate change 气候变化 The temperature rises 温度上升 A new report produces a mixture of alarm and apathy 新报告敲响警钟,对此有人惊慌,有人冷漠 For decades scientists have warned that rising atmospheric con

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As years passed market forces joined Communist propaganda chiefs as a second boss. 随着时间的推移,市场力量以二把手的身份加入了宣传。 Early shows were dominated by male characters and mostly watched by men. 早期的电视剧以

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Many Chinese might mock attempts to extract political lessons from Yanxi Palace or other recent Qing dramas drawing huge audiences, such as Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace. 很多中国人可能会嘲笑意图从《延禧攻略》或是最近大热的清

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TAKE a sticker, urges the woman from Ambush Firearms. We are giving away two free guns every day to people wearing them. What your correspondent would do with an semi-automatic rifle, let alone one that also comes in pink, was not obvious. Welcome to

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Obituary;Brian Haw 讣告;布莱恩霍 Brian Haw, peace campaigner, died on June 18th, aged 62 布莱恩霍和平活动家,于六月十八日逝世,享年六十二岁 When Brian Haw sat in his old canvas chair in front of his banner-hung tent i

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Shammi Kapoor 山米卡帕尔 Shamsher Raj Kapoor, Bollywood superstar, died on August 14th, aged 79 山米什尔罗杰卡帕尔,宝莱坞巨星,于8月14日逝世,享年79岁 THE stately descent of an eyelid; the five-minute burning glance; te

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BECAUSE of the September 2001 attacks, the New York Police Department has become a sophisticated counter-terrorism agency. In the decade since then the NYPD has increased the number of detectives on a joint task-force it has long operated with the FB

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