Books arts 文艺板块 Home entertainment 家庭娱乐专栏 Back in the water 回到水中 Hidden depths 隐藏的深渊 Bungling officials confront an invisible threat in a blockbuster about a fish. A film about ashark was Steven Spielbergs descri...
Mr Abbotts pandemic management has followed a similar pattern. Having covered his right flank, he has ended up in a pretty reasonable placeas indicated by the fact that he is now being criticised most harshly by the crazy right. By permitting local a...
Still, because trade finance is short-term usually 30 to 90 daysand backed by collateral, lenders have some recourse. 因为贸易金融是短期的通常为30到90天并有保证金的支持，银行有一些追索权。 Natalie Blyth of HSBC, a ban...
Business 商业版块 Logistics (2) 物流栏目（第二部分） Droning on 启动无人机 Automated deliveries get a fillip 自动配送注入强心剂 Unmanned vehicles, airborne or earthbound, have been pressed into anti-pandemic service the wo...
Managing pandemic politics is easiest in states with stable majorities, as Andrew Cuomo of New York and Mike DeWine of Ohio have shown. It is much harder in more divided ones, especially for Republican governors, who cannot get too far out of step wi...
United States 美国版块 Lexington 列克星顿专栏 Its messing with Texas 搅乱的德克萨斯州 Greg Abbott is battling the coronavirus with one hand and his partys lunatic fringe with the other 格雷格雅培用一只手与冠状病毒作斗争...
In warm weather, fewer people wear socks, says Paul Rotstein of Gold Medal International, a wholesaler in New York. 在温暖的天气，穿袜子的人更少，纽约批发商Gold Medal International的Paul Rotstein说到。 People may not sport soc...
If these findings are replicated elsewhere, furlough schemes may be adopted in future recessions. Some commentators point to the record of Germany, which suffered a much smaller rise in unemployment than other rich countries during the recession in 2...
Boris Johnson, Britains prime minister, announced that Britains Department for International Development would be folded back into the Foreign Office. British aid will now focus less on ending poverty and more on advancing British foreignpolicy goals...
The new intake of Tory MPS is proving to be surprisingly hard to manage. A veteran observer of the party says that he expected rebellions from Europhile MPS and ageing Brexiteers who have been muscled aside by Mr Cummings. But what has surprised him...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Brazil reported a record 35,000 new cases of COVID-19 in a day. Even that grim figure is widely regarded as an undercount. India is now recording tens of thousands of new infections each week. In...
But fear and charisma only work so long as they are accompanied by competence. The backbenchers who once feared Mr Johnson and Mr Cummings are now more worried about the fury of their own constituents. There is talk of emperors without clothes and wi...
She was closer to her audiences than any film star; she could feel them press round her, watch how they reacted, notice the women with their prams or the passing cyclists pausing to listen, see new lovers leaning on each other as they sang from a sco...
Yet though the disease is everywhere, it is discussed euphemistically. Newcomers are diagnosed as anaemic. As is still the case in the rich world, death is hidden. You hear nothing of them, or only by chance afterwards, Joachim says of patients who s...
Books arts 文艺版块 Home Entertainment 家庭娱乐栏目 Illness in literature 文学中的疾病 Climb every mountain 攀爬每一座山 A classic German saga of high-altitude sickness is oddly uplifting 一篇关于高原病的德国经典传奇...
