Books and Arts; Book Review;Paul Volcker;Tall tale; 文艺;书评;保罗沃尔克;伟人传奇; Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence. By William Silber. 《沃尔克:金石为开》威廉 希尔伯著。 Alan Greenspan may be the most famous c

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Finance and Economics 财经 Mobile Money in Africa: Transfer market 非洲的资金流转:转账市场 Crowded field, different player. 行业饱和,新人登场。 With her phone in one hand and a live chicken in the other, Brenda Deeomba comes

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United States 美国 Skilled Immigration: Six degrees and separation 技术移民:六级与分裂 Immigrants are arriving better educated than ever before. 移民受教育水平比以往有所提高 Jose Rommel Umano, who is originally from the Phi

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The world this week-Business 一周新闻报道 商业 Bank of America was reported to have reached a settlement with American regulators to pay around 17 billion for mis-selling mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. 据

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The world this week-Business 本周政治要闻 Alibaba took its IPO to investors in a roadshow, having priced the offering at between 60 and 66 a share. 阿里巴巴借路演助力IPO,定价区间为60到66美元。 This could value the Chinese e-

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Battery firms like Tesla, as well as some utilities, see a mixture of rooftop photovoltaics, home-mounted batteries and electric vehicles as the way of the future, 像特斯拉这样的电池公司,以及一些公用事业公司,将屋顶太阳能电

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Science and technology. 科技。 Flu research. 流感研究。 How to make bird flu fly, part one. 让禽流感飞起来,第一部分。 The first of two controversial research papers is published. 充满争议的两篇研究论文的其中之一已

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Although 18 American citizens have been detained by North Korea over the past two decades 尽管在过去的二十年里,有18名美国公民被朝鲜扣留 (and ten since Kim Jong Un, its leader, took power five-and-a-half years ago), they have ra

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The Americas 美洲 Brazil's Political Scandal: Temer tantrum 巴西政治丑闻:特梅尔生气了 Bribery charges will not bring down the president just yet. 受贿指控并不会导致总统下台。 Ever since an audio recording emerged in May

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The advantage of this transit method is that it is well-suited to mass production. 这种中天方法的优势在于非常适合大量成果产出。 Kepler was designed to stare fixedly at a single patch of sky in the constellation of Cygnus, observ

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Education policy 教育政策 Final exam期终考试 As elections loom, Barack Obama tries to reform Americas schools 随着选举临近,巴拉克-奥巴马尝试改造美国的学校 AMERICAS schools are dotted with stories of progress. In Decembe

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This was not the radical reforming budget it had been billed as. But its heart was in the right place 虽不如它所标榜的激进的、革新的预算,但其动机还是积极的。 THIS is not a tax-raising budget. But nor can we afford a givea

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Books and arts Book review Winston Churchill's other lives书籍与艺术 书评 丘吉尔的多面人生 Mr high-roller 赌场大亨 No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money. By David Lough. 《莫饮香槟:丘吉尔与金钱》作者:戴维洛

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Books and Arts; Book Review; 文艺;书评; A history of mapmaking;Views of the world; 地图史;世界景象; There is no such thing as an objective map; 准确地图谁见了; A History of the World in Twelve Maps. By Jerry Brotton. 《12幅地图

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Finance and Economics;Better Than Goldman? A Brazilian star heads to market 财经;比高盛还好?巴西投行业明星即将上市 The announcement on March 1st that BTG Pactual plans an initial public offering (IPO) came after weeks of specu

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In 1991 Coase was awarded the Nobel prize for economics, largely on the strength of these two papers. 1991年,主要是因为这两篇论文的力量,科斯荣获了诺贝尔经济学奖。 But as late as 1972, he lamented that The nature of the

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Still in Books and Arts; Book Review; Joys of craftsmanship;Handy work 文艺;书评;手工技艺的乐趣;手工劳动; Made By Hand: Searching For Meaning in a Throwaway World. By Mark Frauenfelder. 《手工制作:在被抛弃的世界中寻

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Finance and economics 财经商业 Monetary policy in America 美国的货币政策 Taper tiger 逐渐变弱的老虎 The Federal Reserve surprises everyone by changing nothing 美国联邦储备委员保持政策不变让人们感到惊奇 SHORTLY a

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