There was no coloured restroom, so she used the white one. A few years back, when the bus taking her to her first teaching job in marion, virginia, had crossed the state line from west virginia, all the blacks had been told to get off and take taxis....
The world this week 本周要闻 Business 商业 Global markets had a turbulent week amid heightened concern about the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak. The Samp;P 500 index dropped by 3.4% in a day, its worst daily performance in two year...
Adding threat-detection measures, such as heavy, power-hungry radar antennae, or spinning lidar units, 增加威胁探测措施，如重型耗电的雷达天线或旋转激光雷达装置 radar's optical equivalent, would either reduce range or preve...
Both Ms Prada and her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, the groups chief executive, have strong personalities. They also own 80% of Prada. For the arrangement to work, the trio must get on very well, says Luca Solca of Bernstein, a research firm. It helps...
Chinas second lesson is that governments can slow the spread of the disease. Flattening the spike of the epidemic means that health systems are less overwhelmed, which saves lives. If, like flu, the virus turns out to be seasonal, some cases could be...
Internet shopping makes buying things easier, but has also led to the rise of a new kind of thief: the porch pirate. 网络让购物变得更加容易，但也导致了一种新型偷窃的兴起：包裹窃贼。 Porch pirates scour door steps for d...
Katherine Goble Johnson, NASA mathematician, died on february 24th, aged 101 美国宇航局数学家凯瑟琳戈布尔约翰逊于2月24日逝世，享年101岁。 As she ran her eyes over the flight-test calculation sheets the engineer had given he...
Business 来源于《商业》板块 Luxury goods 奢侈品 Unbedevilling Prada 没有吸引力的普拉达 A fashion house tries to revive its creative sparkand its financial fortunes 时装公司试图重振创意火花和财富 For years after it...
In response to the scepticism, researchers who believe in the advantage have refined their studiesnow acknowledging that, beneath their common trait, bilingual people use their languages in varying ways that may account for the incongruent previous r...
The World Health Organisation was this week full of praise for Chinas approach. That does not, however, mean it is a model for the rest of the world. All quarantines carry a costnot just in lost output, but also in the suffering of those locked away,...
Start with the first, volatility. Equity market instability might feed on itself. 首先是波动性。股市的不稳定可能会自食其果。 The VIX, which measures the expected volatility implied by the price of options on the Samp;P 500 index,...
Leaders 来源于2月29日《社论》版块 The pandemic 流行病 Going global 全球化 The virus is coming. Governments have an enormous amount of work to do 病毒来了。政府有大量的工作要做 In public health, honesty is worth a lot m...
The world this week 本周要闻 politics 政治 Mahathir Mohamad resigned as prime minister of Malaysia, after his own party, Bersatu, decided to leave the ruling coalition. He remains in office as a caretaker. Anwar Ibrahim, his long-time rival and...
Be prepared 做好准备 America is ahead of most countries in planning for such things, says Dr Hanfling. Disasters such as Hurricane Katrina when many patients died in hospitals that were unprepared for disasterlaid bare the need to prepare for the...
When America, the hub of global capital, is this far into an economic expansion and a bull market, 当作为全球资本中心的美国深陷入经济扩张和牛市时， investors feel two conflicting impulses. They hope that the good times will la...
