The form of the suburb encourages conformity and repetition. 城郊的形式鼓励着遵从和重复。 Most streets adhere to a grid, running north-south and eastwest, which is linked to a grid that extends across southern California and indeed much...
Both the identity and the payment layers are controlled by the government, but open to others. As a result, using the system is cheap. 身份和支付层面都由政府管控，但是对其他人开放。因此，使用该系统的成本很低。 Out...
More evidence is accumulating to show that the approach works beyond New York. Starting in 2015, three community colleges in Ohio imported the ASAP model, with some modifications (such as offering money for petrol rather than for the subway). A rando...
When India was hit both by the failure of a big bank and a nationwide lockdown in March, 今年3月，当印度受到一家大银行倒闭和全国封锁的双重打击时， bankers, fearing runs from rattled depositors, rushed to stuff cash machine...
Business 商业 Office culture 办公室文化 The presenteeism premium 出勤率超额 Japans white-collar warriors struggle to adapt to social distancing 日本的白领战士们努力适应社会距离 In 57 ad a Chinese emperor, Guangwu, gave an...
He lives where most Americans livein suburbia. 他住在郊区，大多数美国人也住在那。 His house sits on a plot that is 50 feet wide and 100 feet deep. 他的房子坐落在一块50英尺宽100英尺深的土地上。 In front is a paveme...
This was the section he worked in. The birds were usually angry, but once he'd hung them up he would give them a pat and croon a word or two. That went on for turkey after turkey, hundreds in a day. It was a tough, risky grapple, but he was skilled a...
He is not unusual. Students in the ASAP programme have a three-year graduation rate of 53% more than double the 25% rate in the rest of the City University of New York (CUNY) system and close to triple the national average. In 2015, when external res...
A leaked letter from Zimbabwe to the imf warned that the country is heading towards economic collapse and that it needs assistance in clearing its existing debts to unlock new funding. The letter said Zimbabwes economy could shrink by 15-20% this yea...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Reversing course, Donald Trump said that Americas coronavirus task-force would continue, but also focus on rebooting the economy. More states began easing their lockdowns. Florida allowed shops t...
Growing up in Morris Heights, a poor neighbourhood in the Bronx where violence was omnipresent, Joel Cabrera thought his future would be either death or jail, because thats what the outcomes are here. Middle school was like a juvenile- detention faci...
Patients brought into hospital with all the symptoms of a heart attack have later been found to be suffering from cardiac inflammation caused by the virus. 因心脏病发作症状而入院的病人之后被发现患有由该病毒引起的心脏炎症...
Business 商业 Dividends and buy-backs 股息和回购 Chop chop 加油加油 Companies are slashing payouts to their owners 公司大幅削减股东的派息 Shareholders the world over have had a rotten 2020. 2020年对全世界的股东而言都很...
Willie Levi, turkey-handler, died of covid-19 on April 23rd, aged 73 火鸡工人威利利瓦伊于4月23日因新冠肺炎去世，享年73岁。 Singing was something Willie Levi loved to do. When he was at the state school in Mexia, Texas, he belo...
In a new poll, that had fallen to 47%. But while public attitudes have softened, official ones have hardened. Only a decade ago, when it still enjoyed good relations with Europe, Mr Erdogan's government signed a convention banning discrimination on t...
