The leader of a coup in Mali appointed Bah Ndaw, a former defence minister, as transitional president. The EU and America have suspended military aid to the country, which is fighting jihadists. 马里政变领导人任命前国防部长巴哈恩多为...
From this predator's point of view the requirement to evolve resistance to a venom, particularly one that is not lethal, is therefore low. 从这种捕食者的角度来看,对进化出毒液抵抗力(尤其是非致命毒液)的要求因而很低...
Funnel-web spiders have a fearsome reputation. People bitten by these Australian arachnids suffer extreme pain, 漏斗网蜘蛛有着一个可怕的名声。被这些澳大利亚蛛形纲动物叮咬过的人都会出现极度疼痛、 breathing prob...
These are valid concerns, which will not be fully allayed until the returns are in. (Representative G.K. Butterfield, whose congressional district includes Greenville, said his biggest fear was of a covid-19 surge a week before the election.) Yet Lex...
Polls point to a marginal softness in their support for Mr Biden relative to that enjoyed by Hillary Clinton. Where she won 88% of African-Americans, YouGov polling suggests 83% are committed to voting for Mr Biden. He will probably bridge the gap. O...
United States 美国版块 Lexington 列克星顿专栏 A double negative 双重否定 Hope turned out black voters for Barack Obama. Will fear bring them out against his successor? 是希望让黑人选民们支持奥巴马。那么害怕会驱使他们...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Donald Trump marshalled enough Republican votes in the Senate to consider a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election on November 3rd. Ms Ginsburgs death gives the party a window to...
Her arguments in discrimination cases were based squarely on the 14th Amendments guarantee of equal protection of the laws. Gross generalisations about how women were or how men were had to be forgotten. Her dream was a world in which men and women c...
In her dissents she sometimes appealed to Congress to correct the law and occasionally, to her delight, it did. Her legal hero was an incrementalist: Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice on the court, who had laboured to dismantle segregation....
And she especially attacked the striking down, in 2013, of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v Holder, on the supposition that racism had waned enough to discard it. That, she wrote, was like throwing away your umbrella in a rainsto...