It's also been a big week for more attempted airline buyouts. Air France-KLM, the result of a 2004 merger between two French and Dutch airlines into Europe's biggest airline, has begun talks to buy Alitalia, which is half owned by the Italian govern

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American Journalist Gathers Love Stories from the Slavery Era 美国记者收集奴隶时代的爱情故事 Award-winning journalist Betty DeRamus has written about race riots , refugee camps and othe

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Smart Cars for the Smartphone Generation 智能手机时代的智能汽车 NEW YORK Automakers are taking their cues from smartphones, incorporating new services and features that work with a quick tap or swipe. The technologies being bundled into to

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If you could travel back in time, what would be your destination? We put the question to a group of contributors and guests, starting with the historian Patrick Dillon ... 如果你可以回到过去,你的目的地会在哪里?我们向一些本刊

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这位英国保守党领袖说,我们正在进入一个崭新的时代 -- 政府自身拥有更少的权利(和更少的钱),同时人民借助新兴科技则拥有更多的权利。利用行为经济学的新观点,他探讨如何将上述趋

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Natalie Morales: Barash recently completed a study that defines what she calls the

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今天我们要学的词是era。 Era, 是时代的意思。美国最后两家大投资银行高盛和摩根斯坦利转型为传统的银行控股公司。 It brought the era of Wall Street investment banks to an end, 这给华尔街投资银行的时

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In his State of the Union Address, President Obama made a big deal about manufacturing jobs as a central part of his economic vision for the country. Our first priority is making America a magnet for new jobs in manufacturing, he proclaimed. I suppor

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Weve had enough of these boys messing about. This is what Anna Soubry, UKs former business minister, said earlier last month, offering her backing of Theresa May in the running to become the UKs next prime minister. 我们受够了这些男生们的捣

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The Four Ages There had been four ages since the human world first cameinto being .They are the Golden Age,the Silver Age,the Age of Bronze and the Age of Iron.The Golden Agewas the best of all..There wereno extremes of cold and heat.Men live

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我们这个时代的尴尬 Paradox of Our Times We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less common sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more experts, but more problems; more medi

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Katie Couric: In 1927, Time magazine put Charles Lindbergh on the cover of its final edition of the year, called him their

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不管擅不擅用作图软件的人,都或多或少听说过P图这个词吧?P指作图软件Photoshop,一般来说明星和模特们妖娆多姿的杂志封面照都是P过的,因为真人可能没有那么完美。那么,P照片这个词,

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Does the world need yet another drama about Queen Elizabeth II? British actress Helen Mirren famously played the tough *monarch in her Oscar-winning turn in The Queen (2006). 世界上还需要多一部关于英国女王伊丽莎白二世的戏吗?在

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Every year, TIME selects the best inventions that are making the world better, smarter andin some casesa little more fun. Here's which ones made this year's unranked list. 每年《时代》周刊都会选出让世界变得更美好、更智能或者更

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微博时代 你的生活改变了吗 导读:。关注就是力量,围观改变社会,作为如今的网络潮人,你可以没有博客,但你一定不能没有微博。它已融入人们的生活,成了一种生活方式。 Wang Yin, a 2

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[1]We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less common sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness. [2] We spend too reck

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相比传统博客,以短、灵、快为特点的微博几乎不需要很高成本,只需三言两语,就可记录下自己某刻的心情、某一瞬的感悟。如今又有个词叫微访,它可不是什么微服私访的简称,而是从微

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Finance and economics 财经商业 Civil servants and austerity 公务员与财政紧缩 The times they aren't a-changin 不曾变革的时代 Civil-service payrolls have held up surprisingly well 一直以来,公务员的薪酬都出奇地好 AFTE

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to Venezuela, where what has been an economic crisis is leading to social and political upheaval, in a country once flush with oil money. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, videographer Bruno Federico and

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