Internet use 互联网的使用 A tangled web 错综复杂的网络 Who goes online, and where 谁在网上,在哪里? THE internet looks like an adman's dream. Counting how many times an advert on a bus shelter has been viewed is impossible; count

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Congress and the president 国会与总统 Face-off 对峙 Anyone hoping for an outbreak of good government is likely to be disappointed 想要一个良好政府的人们恐要大失所望 SPEAKING at the White House after a stinging mid-term defeat,

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Rough sleeping 露宿街头 One home at a time 房子的救赎 How to cut the number of street dwellersand save money, too 减少倒卧,节约开支 HANDING a homeless alcoholic the keys to a free furnished flat may seem foolish, unfair or both. Th

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Bird-watching 鸟类观察 All aflutter 群情激动 Britain's largest conservation society is ruffling feathers 英国最大的鸟类保护组织现在面临着成员流失的危险。 ON January 24th and 25th around half a million people were expec

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Male suicide 男性自杀 A worrying trend 趋势令人堪忧 Official suicide statistics released on February 19th contain disturbing news: suicide rates rose by 4% between 2012 and 2013, and the rise was due mainly to one group: men over 30. Rates

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Divorce 离婚 Work to rule 依法力争 England becomes a slightly worse place for idle ex-wives 英格兰不再是那些懒散前妻们的理想之地 ENGLAND has long been the jurisdiction of choice for wives who have the luxury of being able to c

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Young and workless 年轻人与失业 Youth employment 年轻人就业 Recent figures confirmed that government labour-market policies, such as the age discrimination act of 2006 and the equality act of 2010, have enabled older workers to stay in the

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Religion and free speech 宗教与自由言论 The right to be rude 粗鲁的权利 An offensive preacher acquires some unlikely allies 一名无礼牧师获得一些意想不到的盟友 MICHAEL OVERD is an evangelical Christian with strong views on

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Iraq's Christians 伊拉克的基督徒 Nearly all gone 几近消失 The conquering jihadists are evicting or killing Mosul's last Christians 圣战者乘胜追杀摩苏尔的基督徒 At least he's aliveamong the Kurds 至少他还活着作为一个库

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An obvious apparent difference between dividends and buy-backs is that every shareholder gets the dividend but not all of them tend to take part in a buy-back. 股息与回购的明显区别是每个持股人都会得到分红,但并不是所有的持

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The IMF's model did not allow for an Iraqi invasion. 国际货币基金组织的模型并未考虑到伊拉克的入侵。 But other errors are less easily explained: between 1990 and 2007, the IMF's spring forecasts underestimated global growth in 1

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Finance and Economics 财经 Credit Suisse: Thiam's tweak 瑞士银行:谭天忠的微调 Another change of plan at Switzerland's second biggest bank. 瑞士第二大银行做出了另一改变。 Europe's most troubled big banks may at last be on

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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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Business 商业报道 The circus business 马戏团商业 Sunstroke 日射热 Cirque du Soleil may be struggling, but the cluster around it is thriving 太阳马戏团或许正处于苦斗之中,但围绕其四周的星团正熠熠发光。 No lion

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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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Business 商业报道 Schumpeter 熊彼得 Fighting the flab 减肥大作战 Corporate headquarters have put on weight, and need to slim down again 企业的总部体积膨胀,需要再次瘦身 ONE of the most extraordinary corporate centres in Am

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Leaders Abortion in America Back in court 社论精粹 美国堕胎问题 重返公堂 It may poison the 2016 election, but the Supreme Court should strike down Texas's restrictive abortion law堕胎问题的争论或许会阻碍2016年大选,但最高

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Finance and economics 财经商业 Free exchange 自由兑换 Money from nothing 无中生钱 Chronic deflation may keep Bitcoin from displacing its fiat rivals 慢性通缩的比特币可能无法取代其法定对手 BITCOIN, to its most ardent fan

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LIKE most sins, tax breaks are easier to condemn than to resist. Politicians regularly decry the inefficiency and complexity that tax breaks introduce to the overall tax system, while merrily adding to the pile. Bill Clinton created the child tax cre

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IN A quiet spot in eastern Montana, on rolling golden prairies and under vast skies, 71 buffalo calves charge out of a corral. Kicking up dust as they run, they quickly join a herd of several hundred American buffalo of all ages. The calves had arriv

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