The world this week 一周要闻 Business 商业 The problems mounted at Boeing, as it more than doubled the cost it expects to incur from the grounding of the 737 max airliner, to $18.6bn. The aerospace company reported a net loss of $636m for 2019,...
Under him the carol service became more ecumenical and open. It had more Latin, like the weekly services, which now featured Latin masses and canticles. His Anglican suspicion of the Roman church had been soothed, when he was really quite young, by s...
Since the first use of fingerprints to identify and convict a murderer, in 1892, 自从1892年首次使用指纹来识别并定罪谋杀犯以来， detectives the world over have come to rely heavily on print evidence to build their cases against su...
Indeed, in financial services the implicit sale of personal data is seen as a way in which the poor can be levelled up. 确实，在金融服务业，隐性出售个人数据被视为拉平穷人的一种方式。 With low, unreliable incomes and few...
His training was more than adequate: chorister at Worcester Cathedral, organ scholar at St John's, Cambridge, later a fearless conductor, with the Philharmonic and the Britten Sinfonia, of new works for orchestra. But the choir's reputation awed him....
Manufacturing workers have long faced these kind of numerical targets, as well as the need to clock in and out of work. The big change is that similar metrics and rating systems are spreading to more and more parts of the economy. Academics get rated...
For those seeking to help the worst-off in poor countries, the mobile phone has been a magic wand. 对于那些想要帮助贫穷国家中最贫穷者的人来说，手机就像一根魔杖。 Mobile-money accounts have helped deliver financial inclu...
Business 来源于《商业》版块 Bartleby 巴托比职场专栏 I am Number 0.6 我是0.6个工人 How modern workers are at the mercy of ratings 现代工人是如何受评级影响的 A close friend of Bartlebys just got the news that their dep...
Butterflies engaged in all of these heat-minimising activities even when the researchers blindfolded them. 即使研究人员蒙住它们的眼睛，蝴蝶也会进行所有这些减少热量的活动。 That suggested the relevant sensors were on th...
Many experts praise Chinas e?orts. Certainly, its scientists have coped better with the Wuhan virus than they did with SARS in 2003, rapidly detecting it, sequencing its genome, licensing diagnostic kits and informing international bodies. 许多专家...
A butterfly's wings can have many jobs besides keeping the insect aloft. 蝴蝶翅膀除了保持昆虫在空中飞行外，还有许多其他的功能。 They may be called on to attract mates, to warn potential predators to stay away, 它们可能被...
The outbreak began in December. The repeated mingling of people and animals in China means that viral mutations that infect humans are likely to arise there; and mass migration to cities means that they are likely to spread between people. This virus...
Leaders 来源于2月1日刊《社论》版块 How bad will it get? 情况会糟糕到何种境地？ The coronavirus is likely to become a pandemic. That need not be as catastrophic as it sounds 新型冠状病毒很可能成为一种瘟疫。这未必...
Few measures are as unpopular with the profession, which sees prices as both a signal of scarcity and a spur to overcome it. 很少有措施像这个行业那样不受欢迎，这个行业认为价格既是稀缺的信号，又是克服稀缺的激励。...
Sir Stephen Cleobury, musical director for 37 years of King's College, Cambridge, died on November 22nd, aged 70 斯蒂芬克劳伯里爵士曾任剑桥大学国王学院音乐总监37年，他于11月22日去世，享年70岁。 Snow seldom falls in...
