Argentina and YPF 阿根廷与YPF Flogging a Dead Cow 抽一头死牛 The recently nationalised oil company agrees on a big foreign investment 最经刚刚国有化的油企接受了一项大型外国投资。 Jul 27th 2013 | BUENOS AIRES |From the p

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Science and Technology 科技 Solar heat for oil wells 用于油井的太阳热能 Mirrors in glasshouses 温室的反光镜... can be used to heat stones ...能用于加热石头 THERE is a lot of energy from ancient sunshine stored in the oil that

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Business this week. 一周商业要闻 It was a big week for the mobile phone industry, with the announcement of two long mooted deals. 对移动电话行业来说这周很重要,这周公布了两个酝酿已久的交易。 In the first, and after

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Business this week 一周商业要闻 Britain's recovery gathered pace. 英国经济加快复苏脚步。 Industrial output grew by 1.2% year on year, the fastest rate since January 2011, with manufacturing up by 2%. 工业产出与去年同期相比增

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Science and technology 科学技术 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 克雅氏病 Breaking down the barrier 攻破屏障 A glimmer of hope for a drug that treats disease caused by prions 药物治疗朊病毒感染疾病的一线希望 THE epidemic of mad-c

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Science and Technology Animal obesity The fat cat cometh 科技 动物肥胖 肥猫报到 It is not just human beings that are getting fatter. Animals are, too 不只人类正在变胖,动物亦然 IN THEIR attempts to explain the global epidemic o

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Science and Technology Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Breaking down the barrier 科技 克雅氏病 攻破屏障 A glimmer of hope for a drug that treats disease caused by prions 药物治疗朊病毒感染疾病的一线希望 THE epidemic of mad-cow dis

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Science and Technology 科技 Solar heat for oil wells 用于油井的太阳热 Mirrors in glasshouses can be used to heat stones 玻璃房里的镜子.....可以用来加热石头 THERE is a lot of energy from ancient sunshine stored in the oil that

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Science and Technolgy. 科技。 Visible-light communication. 可见光通信。 Tripping the light fantastic. 与光共舞。 A fast and cheap optical version of Wi-Fi is coming. 一个高速而廉价的光学Wi-Fi即将问世。 AMONG the many new

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Divorce insurance 离婚保险 I do conditions apply 我愿意申请条件 Ending a marriage is horrid. Insurance might ease the pain 离婚是可怕的,保险可能缓和痛苦 DIVORCE, like any other risk, can be priced and packaged. 离婚,像其

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Business 商业 Trademark bullying 商标欺诈 Shut your kale-hole 闭上你的臭嘴 What's in a name, anyway? 无论如何,商标中能有什么呢? CHICK-FIL-A sells an average of nine sandwiches per second at its roughly 1,600 restaurants. 托

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Lexington 来克星敦 Connubial bliss in America 幸福婚姻在美国 Behind the politics of gay marriage, a widening social acceptance 同性婚姻之政治因素的背后,公众对同性恋的接受程度看涨 Jul 30th 2011 | from the print ed

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Mental well-being 心理健康 A New York state of mind 纽约人的精神状态 Urban brains behave differently from rural ones 城市人的大脑异于乡村 Jun 23rd 2011 | from the print edition Shelley contemplates urban decay 沉思城市衰落的

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Osama bin Laden 奥萨马本拉登 Osama bin Laden, the worlds most wanted terrorist, died on May 2nd, aged 54 奥萨马本拉登,世界头号通缉恐怖分子,于5月2日被击毙,终年54岁 May 5th 2011 | from the print edition WHEN he gave

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Banyan 菩提 The finitude of forests 森林禁令 A scheme to save the worlds rainforests still seems too good to be true 拯救全球热带雨林的计划仍然很难落实 AS THE heavens open, the canopy offers scant protection from the downpour,

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Books and Arts; Book Review;New theatre: Travelling Light; 文艺;书评;新剧院:《轻装上阵》; The screen at the end of the world;Antony Sher plays the part of a lifetime; 世界尽头的银幕;安东尼谢尔:生为犹太身,今演

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Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon 德怀特艾森豪威尔和理查德尼克松 The odd couple 欢喜冤家 They were more alike than is often thought 他们的相似之处比人们通常想的要多 Take a few swings 挥几杆 Ike and Dick: Portra

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Arts of Cambodia 柬埔寨艺术 Out of adversity 摆脱困境 An ambitious festival of Cambodian arts is about to hit New York 别有深意的柬埔寨艺术节将空袭纽约 ON HIS lightning tour of South-East Asia last year, Barack Obama made a p

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Finance and Economics;Free exchange;The real wealth of nations; 财经;自由交流;国富实论; A new report comes up with a better way to size up wealth 新报告,新思路,衡量真财富。 Wealth is not without its advantages, John Ke

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The foreign-exchange market外汇市场Fixed rates固定汇率The money-spinners await their fate货币投机者只能等待赚钱的时机A CITY worker looking for a quiet place to nap nowadays could do worse than head for his bank's foreign-exchang

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