GEs affection for its old home in Connecticut was no doubt weakened by the states decision in 2015 to raise business taxes by $750m. 2015年康涅狄克州政府将企业税提高了7.5亿美元,毫无疑问,这让通用集团对老东家的感情受

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Asia 亚洲 Suicide in India: A break for the despairing 印度的自杀:一场绝望的间歇 India decriminalises attempted suicide. 印度将自杀未遂合法化。 Gorav Gupta has spent his life helping the mentally ill. Gorav Gupta一生致力于

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The magician 魔术大师 The revolution that Steve Jobs led is only just beginning 乔布斯领导的革命只是刚刚开始 WHEN it came to putting on a show, nobody else in the computer industry, or any other industry for that matter, could match

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A new world in your bedroom 卧室里的新天地 Amateur astronomers join the ranks of the planet hunters 业余天文学家加入猎星人行列 IN AN age of professionals, the ability of amateur scientists to make meaningful contributions has almo

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Public-information films 公共信息电影广告 Don't stop, don't look, don't listen 莫停留,莫张望,莫听信 Scary adverts don't work, yet they are everywhere 骇人的广告如同鸡肋却无处不在 CHATTERING schoolchildren don colour

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Urban beekeeping 乡村饲蜜 Honey monsters 蜜怪 City dwellers cultivate a taste of the country 城市居民培养出乡村嗜好 A new kind of pinstripe 新型细条纹 WHEN Camilla Goddard first started to keep bees in London, it was difficult t

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Business: Schumpeter: Risky business 商业:熊皮特:冒险的生意 Managers need to watch political risk in developed markets as well as emerging ones. 管理者不仅需要留意新兴市场,还要关注成熟市场的政治风险。 Multin

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They should therefore save income earned as a result of stimulus in order to have it on hand for when the bill came due. 因而,为了在账单到期时手里有钱,他们应当把作为刺激结果而挣到的收入存起来。 The multiplier on

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Britain Sterling 英国 英镑 Weaker still and weaker 屋漏偏逢连天雨 The downgrade of British sovereign debt by Moodys did not spook the markets. But investors were already worried 穆迪公司下调了英国主权债务评级,没有引起市

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Whether additional effort translates into higher wages depends on the other options available to workers and on their bargaining power 额外的努力能否转化为高额的工资取决于员工手中的工作选择以及他们的议价能力 in par

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Heaps of data about their activities within a work-space are gathered, while their cognitive contribution is reduced. 设备可以收集众多员工在工作场所的活动数据,但员工的认知贡献也会减少。 In both ways, such technologi

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Finance and Economics 财经 Free exchange: Moral hazard 自由交流:道德风险 Economists cannot avoid making value judgments, however much they might wish to. 经济学家无法避免作出价值判断, 不管他们可能多想避免。 AMID t

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This approach is enormously valuable. 这种方式非常有价值。 It disciplines thinking, produces useful information and makes it easier to build professional consensus about what is known and which questions remain unanswered. 它训练了思维,

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Regrettably, clumping leads to crowding: the more people an area houses, the greater the competition for its scarce resources, 遗憾的是,聚集带来了拥堵:一个区域住了越多的人,稀缺资源的竞争越激烈, from seats at a h

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Jim Thompson 吉姆?汤普森 Boat against the current 逆流而上的船只 The disillusionment of a man of charm 一个魅力男的觉醒 The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War. By Joshua Kurlantzick. Wiley; 253 page

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Drugs policy 毒品政策 Marijuana milestone 大麻合法化的里程碑 Almost half of American states have taken steps to legalise cannabis. The federal government should follow 美国几乎一半的洲都已经步入了大麻合法化的大门。联

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A survey of users, admittedly conducted by the firm itself, suggests that team productivity increases by around a third when they start using the software, primarily by reducing internal e-mail and meetings. Slack has decided to open itself up to oth

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Leaders Imperial ambitions 社论精粹 帝国野心 Mark Zuckerberg prepares to fight for dominance of the next era of computing 马克扎克伯格准备为争夺下一个计算时代的统治地位而战 NOT since the era of imperial Rome has the t

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Britain: Chinese investment: Not so gung-ho 英国:中国在英投资热下降 Relations may cool, but the flow of yuan into Britain is unlikely to dry up. 两国关系可能会降温,但人民币会继续流向英国。 After spending a century

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Bello 贝洛 The gods that failed 失败的上帝 A writer's recantation highlights the intellectual failures of the Latin American left 作家的改口显示拉美左派的理论失败。 LEAVE aside Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and no writer has done mo

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