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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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[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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[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
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:在刚果行医的女医生Lyn Lusi
"DARKNESS" was a word Lyn Lusi was used to. Western journalists instinctively reached for it when they came to her hospital in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Joseph Conrad&2012-05-09 编辑:melody
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:绝非易事(1)
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 adding2012-05-07 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:移民政治学(2)
Nonetheless Mr Romney cheerfully joined in the denunciation of Mr Perry for his breach of party doctrine. By the same token, when Newt Gingrich, another candidate for the Republican presidential nomi2012-05-03 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:危险群体(1)
“THEY hang out in pockets,” says Richard Pan, a Sacramento paediatrician and member of California’s legislature. He is referring to parents who, invoking a “philosophical exemption”, opt not to2012-05-09 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:移民政治学(1)
IT MAY have taken the Supreme Court just an hour to wrap up its discussion of illegal immigration this week, but America’s politicians, it seems, cannot get enough of the subject. It will be several2012-05-02 编辑:beck
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:温暖的火花
New poetry新诗集Sparks of warmth温暖的火花Love's Bonfire. By Tom Paulin.《爱之篝火》汤姆 坡林著TOM PAULIN, an Anglo-Irish poet and Oxford academic, is no stranger to the evocative power of wo2012-05-14 编辑:melody
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:天籁已逝
Obituary讣告Whitney Houston惠特妮•休斯顿Whitney Elizabeth Houston, pop singer, died on February 11th, aged 48.流行歌手惠特妮•伊丽莎白•休斯顿于2月11日逝去,享年48岁。THE year was 1982012-05-11 编辑:melody
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[经济学人综合] 经济学人:绝非易事(2)
Mr Romney can spare the bottom 40% any loss of income from reduced tax expenditures relatively easily. Whereas that group gets the lion’s share of refundable tax credits such as those for children,2012-05-08 编辑:beck