Another was Shaquille O'Neal, a charming giant who also played for the Lakers, but infuriated him because he little-brothered him and did not train like he did. (No one trained like he did.) To prove he was the best of basketball's lovers, he would g...
The swine-flu pandemic, which was caused by the h1n1 virus and infected 16% of the worlds population in 2009, brought home the message that doctors would have to make such tough decisions when big epidemics strike, says Dan Hanfling of In-Q-Tel, an A...
Dr Hick says the biggest challenge if the disease starts to circulate widely in Minneapolis will be staffing. With no vaccine to protect them, many doctors and nurses will be infected. Others will need to stay at home to look after their children bec...
Confirming a suspected infection in a laboratory can take days. Some small European countries have just one or two laboratories able to process covid-19 tests. Europes entire supply of test kits is shipped from the two main laboratories of the Europe...
On February 12th Susan Messonnier of Americas Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said America should be prepared for the virus to gain a foothold in the country. Doctors in South Africa are on high alert, says Cheryl Cohen of the Nation...
International 来源于2月22日刊《国际》版块 Covid-19 2019新型冠状病毒 Watchful waiting 伺机而动 Experts predict that covid-19 will spread more widely; the world is getting ready 专家预测，covid-19将会更广泛地传播；世界...
He cared about being the best, winning games. Simple and plain. His obsession could make him by turns hustling, mean and dejected. When he joined the Lakers, his dream team, in 1996, traded from the Charlotte Hornets, he was only 17, the youngest pla...
The average emission-intensity of power generation in 2019 根据IEA，2019年发电所产生的的平均排放强度 was lower than all but the most efficient gas-fired power plants, according to the IEA. 低于除了效率最高电厂之外的所有燃...
Four prosecutors who recommended a stiff prison term for Roger Stone, a confidant of Mr Trump who has been convicted on charges relating to the Mueller probe, resigned from the case after the Justice Department pushed for a lighter punishment. Mr Tru...
The world this week 本周要闻 Politics 政治 A general election in Ireland produced a shock win for Sinn Fein, formerly the political wing of the IRA, a terrorist group. The party took the most first-choice votes, but ended up coming second in te...
Commodity exports and aid inflows raise demand for local currencies, making them stronger. 大宗商品出口和援助流入增加了对本币的需求，使本币更加强势。 Governments fear depreciation because they depend on imported capital t...
In 1979 an IMF negotiator met Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's socialist president, and urged him to weaken the country's currency. 1979年，一名IMF谈判代表会见了坦桑尼亚的社会党总统朱利叶斯尼雷尔，并敦促他削弱该国的货币...
He perfected his own works of art: the jab-step-and-pause, using unexpected footwork to pass the defender, and the fadeaway, shooting while he jumped high and backwards from the basket. For 20 seasons, a very long time to stay with one team, he playe...
Things are even worse in technology. In Britain only one in ?ve computer-science university students is a womana big problem at a time when the World Economic Forum predicts that technology will create more than a quarter of all jobs in newly emergin...
The OECD points out that some of the fastest-growing occupations are rarely mentioned by young people. But surely the surprise is not that user support technician is ranked only 158th out of 543 professions and computer user support specialist appear...
