United States 美国版块 Crime statistics 犯罪统计 Few signs of a surge 几乎无激增迹象 Despite a recent uptick in violence, fears that America is experiencing a serious crime wave are overblown 尽管最近的美国暴力事件有小幅增...
Tundu Lissu, an opposition politician in Tanzania who was shot 16 times in 2017 but survived, returned from exile in Belgium, hoping to run for president. Mr Lissu has also been arrested several times for such things as insulting John Magufuli, the i...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 There were fears in Europe of a resurgence of COVID-19. Catalonia returned to a form of lockdown. Britain announced that people arriving from Spain, including British tourists coming back from th...
He showed off Cserdi, where the population was three-quarters Gypsy, to prove that it could be as ordinary as anywhere else. But he knew it was not. The stereotype that most non-Gypsy Hungarians carried in their heads was all too often true: his peop...
The results shocked Dr Morono, 结果让Morono博士感到震惊， At first I was sceptical, but we found that up to 99.1% of the microbes in sediment deposited 101.5m years ago were still alive. 起初，我表示怀疑，但我们发现在1.015亿年...
The emotion that is most likely to lure workers back to the office is paranoia. The pandemic may have caused managers to realise who is indispensable and who isnt. Bartleby realises he is entirely dispensable: an amuse bouche between the meaty stuff...
One who doesnt is her childhood friend Jon John, who gives her a room of her own in which to write. A gay man who wants to make theatre costumes but instead endures hard graft and homophobia on fishing trawlers, he is one of several characters stuck...
Business 商业版块 Bartleby 巴托比专栏 Back on the chain gang 回到流水线 Employees and employers both face trade-offs as offices reopen 随着办公室重新开放，雇员和雇主都面临着权衡。 Remember the 7am alarm? The rushed...
Far from the life-sustaining light of the sun, the deep sea floor appears barren and desolate. 远离能够维持生命的阳光，深海海底显得贫瘠荒凉。 Its appearance, however, belies a thriving bacterial ecosystem that may contain as mu...
Books arts 文艺板块 Book review 书评 Icelandic fiction 冰岛小说 Lines of beauty 美丽的线条 Miss Iceland. 冰岛小姐 By Audur Ava Olafsdottir. 作者：奥杜尔阿瓦奥拉夫斯多蒂尔 One of icelands most celebrated authors, Audu...
Unfavourable comparisons between America now and in its golden decade of capitalism are understandable. Yet 1950s nostalgists should find comfort in the decades cultural endurance. That goes beyond board games. The warm civic-mindedness Americans exu...
Laszlo Bogdan, mayor of Cserdi, died on July 14th, aged 46 拉斯洛波格丹是切尔迪村村长，他于7月14日去世，享年46岁。 Along the walls of his office in Cserdi, a village of around 350 souls in the gentle hills of southern Hungary...
Some members have long pledged a tax on financial transactions. 一些成员国长期以来一直承诺对金融交易征税。 But as James Tobin, its intellectual godfather, supposedly said, the levy is like the Loch Ness Monster: 但正如其知识教...
The fact that theme parks and bowling alleys have been conspicuous victims of the economic shutdown has underscored how popular they remain. Disney Worlds winning struggle to reopen in plague-ridden Florida this month was a major economic event. Fast...
United States 美国版块 Lexington 列克星顿专栏 Mid-century modern 中世纪现代主义 Americans should stop harking back to the 1950s. Many of the decades delights are still available 美国人应该停止回想上世纪50年代。那个十年...
