He was on the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, maintainers of the nuclear Doomsday Clock, which now stands at 100 seconds to midnight. There was far more to nuclear weapons, he knew, than the science that had spawned them....
Leaders 来源于3月28日《社论》版块 Everythings under control 一切都在控制中 Big government is needed to fight the pandemic. It may not shrink again afterwards 抗击疫情需要大政府。之后它可能不会再收缩 In just a few...
His column was global in its reach. Portuguese pronunciation, Indian languages and Chinese characters found a home alongside the more obvious German and French, Greek and Latin. Despite the odd potshot at the yoof and yobs, he wrote admiringly of Car...
Books arts 来源于《图书与艺术》版块 Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 Talking to the world 与世界对话 A tribute to the original Johnson columnist, a voice for the ages 向约翰逊的原创专栏作家致敬，为时代发声 The founder...
Aon and Willis Towers Watson, the world's second- and third-largest insurance brokers, agreed to combine in a $30bn deal.Separately, Tesco, one of the world's biggest supermarket chains, said it would sell its operations in South-East Asia to Charoen...
To test that idea, he and his colleagues set up an experiment involving loggerhead turtles, a species frequently killed by plastic. 为了验证这个想法，他和他的同事们做了一个实验，实验对象是经常被塑料杀死的红海龟。...
But the effect on consumer sentiment of the hiatus may be even greater. surveys suggest that 59% of Americans are sports fans. For many, the loss of their favourite sports events will compound the effect of being stuck at home. An important source of...
In 1958 he was briefly lured away from his professorship at the IAS to work on Project Orion: a plan to build a rocket, propelled by nuclear power, that would be faster and more efficient than any other. The basic principle was to throw a stream of n...
Turtles have an unfortunate habit of devouring plastic objects floating in the sea. 海龟有一个坏习惯，就是吞食漂浮在海里的塑料制品。 These then get snared in their alimentary canals, cannot be broken down by the animals' diges...
Business 来源于《商业》版块 Air transport 航空运输 Flight risk 飞行险 Most airlines are running on empty 多数航空公司现在一无所获 No industry has been more battered by covid-19 than air transport. With people wary of confi...
Leaders 来源于《社论》版块 Professional sports 职业运动 The game's the thing 体育比赛很重要 Cancelling sport will dent morale. A solution may be needed 取消比赛会影响士气。可能需要一个解决方案 Most fans of prof...
Mr Kapoor was arrested and formally charged on March 8th with money laundering and corruption, which he denies. 3月8日，Kapoor被捕并被正式指控犯有洗钱和腐败罪，但他对此予以否认。 He becomes merely the latest among once-pr...
Both the incumbent, Ashraf Ghani, and his main electoral opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, were sworn in as president of Afghanistan in rival inauguration ceremonies. In the meantime, talks between Afghan politicians and the insurgents of the Taliban, whi...
India, which has few declared cases of covid-19, has not escaped the turmoil in global markets. 印度几乎没有公布covid-19病例情况，但也未能逃脱全球市场的动荡。 On March 9th its stock-markets suffered their biggest one-day fa...
Despite a lack of credentials (he never got round to earning his PHD; friends joked that he was the world's most accomplished graduate student), he was plainly clever. By the age of five, growing up in Berkshire, he had tried to calculate how many at...
