Obituary;Robert Byrd 讣告;罗伯特伯德 Robert C. Byrd, doyen of the United States Senate, died on June 28th, aged 92 罗伯特C伯德,资深美国参议院议员,逝世于6月28日,享年92岁 WHENEVER Robert Byrd walked the corridors

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Business. 商业。 Formula One. 一级方程式赛车。 Flagged down. 落马。 Can Formula One succeed without Bernie Ecclestone? 没有了伯尼?埃克莱斯顿,F1能否继续传奇? BERNIE ECCLESTONE, the boss of the Formula One Group, rarel

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Obituary;Vann Nath 讣告;凡纳 Vann Nath, a Cambodian who painted to stay alive, died on September 5th, aged 65 凡纳,用绘画保命的柬埔寨人,9月5日去世,享年65岁 When he was 52, with a hand that still trembled, Vann Nath pr

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Science and technology. 科技。 Scientific publishing 科技出版业 Brought to book 好书来了 Academic journals face a radical shake-up 学术期刊面临彻底改变 IF THERE is any endeavour whose fruits should be freely available, that ende

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Business. 商业。 Do-it-yourself apps 自己做的应用程序 Make your own Angry Birds 做自己的愤怒的小鸟 Homebrew apps have arrived 私人制作的软件已经来临 LAST year Eddie the pig took Chile by storm. The iPhone game ePig Dash

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Science and technology. 科技。 Parasitology 寄生虫学 The risks of global worming 全球防虫的危险 Widespread use of anti-parasite drugs is reducing their value 广泛使用抗寄生虫药物正在降低其疗效 Safely grazing? 正在安全

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Science and technology. 科技。 Animal cognition 动物的认知 Man's best friend 人类的挚友 Can dogs really show empathy towards humans? 狗真的能感受人类的情绪吗? DOGS quickly become part of the family. Tales abound of dogs cel

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Business. 商业。 Airbus 空中客车 Coming to America 杀入美国本土市场 Europe's big aircraft-maker is to open a factory in Alabama 欧洲飞机制造巨头将在阿拉巴马州建工厂 THE red imported fire ant first entered America thro

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Books and Arts; Book Review; 文艺;书评; Segregation in cities 城市里的种族隔离 Living in black and white 黑白时代 How different races inhabit cities 不同的种族如何共居于城市 Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cit

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Science and technology. 科技。 Mining asteroids. 小行星采矿。 Going platinum. 小行星采矿淘铂去。 Mining metals from asteroids seems a bonkers idea. But could it work? 小行星采矿这想法听似疯狂,但行得通吗? CAN rea

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Business. 商业。 Electric power. 电力。 Slow burners. 天燃气发电业逐渐升温。 Cheap gas will boost makers of giant turbines. 廉价天然气将促进大型涡轮机生产厂家的发展。 THE boom in shale-gas production in America,

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The Americas 美洲 Paraguay's new president 巴拉圭的新总统 Cartes plays his cards 卡特高明的手段 Trickle-down economics in one of South America's poorest countries 南美最穷一国的滴流经济学 IN OCTOBER claims surfaced that Vi

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Leaders 社论 The First World War 第一次世界大战 Look back with angst 再回首 忧心忡忡 A century on, there are uncomfortable parallels with the era that led to the outbreak of the First World War 一战过去已有一个世纪,回望一

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Hanging over this debate about the pros and cons of the deal is the question of what overturning it would do to the health of Britains democracy. 围绕该协议利弊的辩论一直悬而未决的问题是,推翻该协议将对英国民主的健康产

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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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OAKSTERDAM university, a self-proclaimed cannabis college in Oakland, California, has been called everything from the Princeton of Pot to the Harvard of Hemp. Its founder, Richard Lee, has become the public face of the movement to legitimise marijuan

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But then, last year, the administration issued the Cole memo (these things are named after the deputy attorneys-general who draft them). It seemed, in dense verbiage, to suggest that the Ogden memo had been misunderstood, and that federal prosecutors

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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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Business. 商业。 Pfizer. 辉瑞制药有限公司。 Taking its medicine. 自尝苦果。 A drug giant coughs up to settle bribery charges. 一个制药巨头被迫出钱就撤销行贿指控与司法部达成和解。 IN AMERICA, it was once comm

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For most of the 20th century Turkish authorities were happy to lend their treasures for foreign exhibitions and ignored the provenance of most pieces in Western collections. Today, however, the government argues that any object without the correct pe

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