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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:拯救灯塔
IN 1989 Edward Kennedy tried to stop time. The United States Coast Guard was preparing to automate and remove all remaining personnel from the old lighthouse in Boston Harbour. But Kennedy, a liberal2012-04-11 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:纽特·金里奇的竞选——败局已定
WHEN Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign foundered last summer, leading to the mass resignation of his staff and reports that his campaign debt exceeded $1m, the problem was not that he seemed to2012-04-12 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:汽车城熄火抛锚
APART from more money, what the city of Detroit needs most is certainty. Both are in short supply at the moment. On March 21st a state-appointed review team unanimously agreed that it is suffering a2012-04-14 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:汽车城熄火抛锚(2)
The mayor of Detroit, Dave Bing, has seemed keen to negotiate a “consent agreement” between the city and the state. This would avoid a takeover, but would still set out exactly how the city must ex2012-04-16 编辑:beck
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[关注社会] 全球经济复苏依然脆弱
Fragile world economy still on ‘life support’全球经济复苏依然脆弱The world economy “remains on life support” from central banks and has deteriorated since last autumn, the latest Brookings Instit2012-04-16 编辑:kekenet
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:奥巴马的非正式时间
THE difference between Barack Obama, leader and Barack Obama, campaigner is in the sleeves. When Mr Obama speaks as the president—sober, calm, head of a nation—he tends to encase them in a suit jac2012-04-17 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:萨拉托加市的制造业(1)
AMERICA’S wealthy, lured by the mineral springs, flocked to Saratoga during the 19th century. Gilded-Age figures such as J.P. Morgan, the financier, summered there. The race course, which opened in2012-04-18 编辑:beck
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[关注社会] 关注社会:中国硬着陆风险几何?
The release last week of softer than expected Chinese growth data triggered a fresh bout of speculation that the country’s economy could be heading for a2012-04-20 编辑:Jasmine
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:萨拉托加市的制造业(2)
The nearby University of Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), the first college in the world dedicated to nanotechnology, is doing much the same. A decade ago Alain Kaloyero2012-04-19 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:合法使用大麻变成空话(1)
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, ha2012-04-20 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:持枪的纯爷们(1)
“TAKE a sticker,” urges the woman from Ambush Firearms. “We are giving away two free guns every day to people wearing them.” What your correspondent would do with an semi-automatic rifle, let alo2012-04-24 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:合法使用大麻变成空话(2)
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 h2012-04-23 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:废除死刑(1)
CAPITAL punishment has been meted out in Connecticut since colonial times, when convicted witches were sentenced to death. In recent years it has been used sparingly . Of the 4,686 murders committed2012-04-26 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:持枪的纯爷们(2)
The NRA also claims to be a potent force in elections; it says it defeated 19 of the 24 congressmen who were on its hit-list back in 1994. But a recent article in American Prospect disputes such asse2012-04-25 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:废除死刑(2)
Connecticut will be the 17th state to abolish the death penalty and the fifth to do so in the past five years. Nor is it likely to be the last: other states are reconsidering capital punishment. Repe2012-04-27 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:自然科学教育——猴子歌舞伎
DOES a bill that does nothing actually do something? This is not a Zen koan, but a legislative one, being tested this month in Tennessee. The bill in question required the state’s education system t2012-04-28 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:奥林-哈奇——茶党前途未卜
THE political class first sat up and paid real attention to the “tea-party” movement two years ago, when its acolytes in Utah ended the career of Bob Bennett, a venerable Republican senator, by den2012-05-04 编辑:beck
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[关注社会] 美国经济首季增长低于预期
The US economy grew a disappointing 2.2 per cent in the first quarter of this year as inventories piled up and the federal government cut spending.随着库存增加和联邦政府缩减开支,今年第一季度美国经济2012-04-29 编辑:kekenet
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:老主题 新故事
When Captain Flint Was Still A Good Man. By Nick Dybek.《那时,弗林特船长仍是个好人》尼克迪贝克著VAST, turbulent and mysterious, the sea is a gift to storytellers. It is a perilous passageway to new2012-05-08 编辑:melody
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:早期音乐运动之父古斯塔夫.莱昂哈特
Obituary讣告Gustav Leonhardt古斯塔夫·莱昂哈特Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichordist and father of the early-music movement, died on January 16th, aged 83.羽管键琴家,早期音乐运动之父古斯塔夫.莱昂哈特于1月2012-05-07 编辑:melody