Leaders 社论 Securitisation 证券化 It's back 重新启动 Once a cause of the financial world's problems, securitisation is now part of the solution 证券化曾经是导致金融危机的因素之一,如今却能帮助解决金融难题 GIVEN

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Science and technology 科学技术 Biotechnology patents 生物技术专利 Natural justice 自然正义 America's Supreme Court is to rule on the patenting of genes 美国最高法院将对基因专利做出裁决 THE nine justices on America's Sup

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Science and technology 科学技术 By the book 照本宣科 The American Psychiatric Association's latest diagnostic manual remains a flawed attempt to categorise mental illness 美国精神医学会最新诊断手册在精神疾病分类上仍有欠缺

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Science and technology 科学技术 Cryptography 密码术 The solace of quantum 量子之慰 Eavesdropping on secret communications is about to get harder 现在想窃听秘密联系会越来越难 CRYPTOGRAPHY is an arms race between Alice and Bob,

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Science and technology 科学技术 Measurement 测量 Mass effect 质量效应 A better way to clean the world's one true kilogram 清洁世界上真正一千克的更好方法 IN SEVRES, on the outskirts of Paris, sealed beneath a triplet of bell j

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Science and technology 科学技术 The uses of stem cells 干细胞的应用 Potent medicine 特效医学 Stem cells may transform the development of new drugs 干细胞可能改写新药发展 PLURIPOTENT is a long word that means able to do many t

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Mention softbank and most Japanese people, understandably, think of telecomsit is Japan's third-largest wireless carrier. 说起软银,大部分日本人会想到电信行业软银是日本第三大无线营运商。 The company hopes to weaken tha

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Volkswagen 大众汽车 VW conquers the world 大众征服世界 Germanys biggest carmaker is leaving rivals in the dust 德国最大汽车制造商令对手望尘莫及 When Ferdinand Piech arrived as Volkswagens chief executive in 1993, things look

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Most intriguingly, the American regulator is also scrutinising how the company has handled its many related-party transactions. Jack Ma, the firm's founder, caused outrage when he unilaterally spun off AliPay, Alibaba's lucrative online-payments arm,

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Big blue is donning red headgear. Even a few months ago the idea that IBM, a venerable corporate IT firm, 蓝色巨人戴上了红帽子。即便是在几个月前,万人敬仰的IT公司IBM would buy Red Hat, the biggest vendor of open-source soft

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The importance of Guinea to China is clear. 几内亚对中国的重要性显而易见。 The authorities in Beijing have promised the government a $20bn loantwice the country's GDPto be paid to Guinea in instalments over 20 years, 北京当局承诺为

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Environmental policy 环保政策 Reefer madness 珊瑚礁化狂热 Turning oil rigs into reefs saves money and marine life. Yet many greens oppose it 石油钻塔变成群礁,既可以省钱,又可以拯救海洋生命。然而,许多绿色环保

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Middle East and Africa Nigeria's government 中东非洲 尼日利亚政府 At work at last 总算点卯了 After sixmonths, Nigeria's president no longer leads alone 过了六个月,尼日利亚总统才总算结束了孤立无援的窘境。 THE

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The European Union budget 欧盟预算 The gourmands of Brussels 布鲁塞尔的贪食者 The EU may be spending less, but the cost of running it is rising 欧盟也许会削减开支,但是运营成本在增加 THE European Union is on the verge o

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The NHS 国民健康保险制度 Health reform in a cold climate 遇冷的医改 The government's reforms to the NHS are viewed as its biggest failure. They are better than that 政府医改被指其最大败笔。盛名之下其实难副 WITH the Co

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Monetary policy 货币政策 A long low note 长期低息 Why interest rates can be expected to stay low for years 为什么可以肯定利率在未来数年都会维持在低位? CENTRAL bankers have a reputation for snatching away the punch bowl

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Germany's government 德国政府 Easy politics, bad policies 简单的政治,糟糕的政策 By indulging her Social Democratic coalition partners, Angela Merkel risks turning Germany in the wrong direction 安格拉默克尔对其社会民主党盟

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Muslims and education 穆斯林与教育 Religious studies 宗教学习 Giving schools more autonomy and encouraging religious groups to run them will produce the occasional disaster 给与学校过多自治权并鼓励宗教组织经营学校都有可

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Business 商业报道 Eataly 意大利美食天堂 Let them eat truffles 请他们吃松露巧克力糖 Italian food for the discerningand loaded 意大利美食专为识货的行家打造 FOR cognoscenti, the height of Italian taste these days is no

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India's Hindu nationalists: 印度的印度教民族主义者: Men in shorts 穿短裤的人们 The election over, Narendra Modi may drop the Hindu right 选举结束,纳伦德拉莫迪或许将限制印度教权力。 Not physical jerks 这可不是

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