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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:差距再次扩大
OCCUPY WALL STREET may be long gone from lower Manhattan, but worries persist about the gap between America’s richest 1% and the rest. Talk of inequality pervades the presidential race. In his2012-03-15 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:美国的清真寺越来越多
IN EARLY 2010 opponents of a proposed mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, spray-painted NOT WELCOME on a sign announcing the new building. Simple-minded vandalism, perhaps; but their scrawl captured t2012-03-16 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:洛杉矶的新星-地景艺术
THE object in question is really just a very large granite boulder. It weighs 340 tons and is the size of a house. It sat unappreciated in a California quarry until Michael Heizer, an artist, spotted2012-03-19 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:北方投机佬的胜利
THE night before Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi voted in their primaries, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum made their final appeals at a forum in an ornate old theatre in downtown Birmingham.2012-03-20 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:开启黑人牧师时代
WHEN Fred Luter, the pastor of a large congregation in a flood-damaged section of New Orleans, assumes the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) at its annual meeting in June, it will n2012-03-21 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:加州税收——一塌糊涂
THOMAS HOBBES famously described the original state of nature as bellum omnium contra omnes. California’s governor, Jerry Brown, who received a Jesuit education and likes to flaunt his classica2012-03-23 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:共和党的预算草案
THE Republican majority in the House of Representatives called its budget proposal The path to prosperity: A blueprint for American renewal. Whether it would live up to that billing we will never kno2012-03-27 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:我是一台无处不在的摄像机
BRIAN Lamb could hardly be a more unlikely media entrepreneur—a modest and civilised man in a world with more than its fair share of egomaniacs and vulgarians. But he was a great one nonetheless. He2012-04-01 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:"宝瓶"时代
Deep-sea exploration深海探索The age of Aquarius 1“宝瓶”时代1Inner space is almost as hard to explore as outer space探太空难,察深海亦不易Have you seen Cameron’s latest?卡梅隆的“新作”你看了吗?JA2012-04-06 编辑:richard
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:回归野性
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 hundred2012-03-22 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:最富1%们究竟何许人也
MITT ROMNEY is not the first multi-millionaire to seek the presidency, nor the richest. Ross Perot, the record-holder, spent some of his billions earned from computer data on losing bids in 1992 and2012-03-29 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:选民身份认定——不再继续
VOTERS in Texas have had three electoral excitements lately. The first was that in February, after a series of rejections, federal judges in San Antonio finally approved a new map for the state&rsquo2012-03-26 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:仅仅因为他是黑人?
IT TOOK a month or so, but the killing of Trayvon Martin, a teenager who was shot in Florida in late February, has developed into a predictable political circus. Barack Obama has opined on it, as hav2012-04-05 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:"拯救"大型购物中心
THE old Rackspace headquarters was stuffed to the gills. In 2007 the company, which offers cloud-computing and web-hosting services, had more than 1,000 employees in downtown San Antonio. People were2012-04-09 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:加州的海水淡化
IF CALIFORNIA were not already so famous for Silicon Valley and Hollywood, it might be renowned for the cluster of water-technology firms in its San Diego County. The reverse-osmosis (RO) spiral modu2012-04-10 编辑:beck
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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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[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