13. Sailing Home 划船回家 This novel was about an unbelievable but genuine adventure . Its author was a black businessman who was brought up in America. In 1956, he visited Africa, his birthplace . One day, when he was wander ing on the pavement...
When governments forced hammams to close in 2020, the copper boilers simmered down and ran dry. 当政府在2020年强制公共浴场关闭时，铜锅炉逐渐冷却并干涸。 Even between lockdowns, fear kept people awayespecially the elderly, of...
Books and Arts 文学与艺术 Bathhouse culture -- Body and soul 公共浴场文化身体与灵魂 Covid-19 has accelerated the decline of hammams, yet the steam still rises 新冠加速了公共浴池的衰落，但蒸汽仍在升腾 Yeni hammam in...
Another dampener may be the nature of the economic recovery. 另一个阻碍因素可能是经济复苏的性质。 In a paper last year Martin Beraja and Christian Wolf of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed that recoveries from recessi...
Finance economics 财经版块 America's consumers 美国消费者 Life after stimmy 大把支票下的生活 Will households, pandemic savings stash keep the economy rolling? 家庭储蓄和防疫储蓄能保持经济运转吗？ America's fiscal la...
Asia 亚洲版块 Tonga's volcanic eruption 汤加火山喷发 A kingdom cut off 被切断的王国 The scale of the damage remains unclear 损失的规模尚不清楚 WORD CAME at last. 消息终于传来了。 Three days after Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'...
The world this week -- Business 本周国际要闻商业 In what is by far the biggest-ever takeover in the gaming industry, Microsoft agreed to buy Activision Blizzard, the company behind the Call of Duty series and Warcraft, for $69bn. 微软同意以...
The world this week -- Politics 本周国际要闻政治 Russia stepped up what looked like preparations to invade Ukraine. 俄罗斯似乎在加紧准备入侵乌克兰。 Its troops were deployed to Belarus, from which they could open up a second f...
The world this week -- Business 本周国际要闻商业 Americas annual rate of inflation jumped to 7% in December, its highest level since June 1982. 美国12月份的年通货膨胀率跃升至7%，为1982年6月以来的最高水平。 Several fa...
The world this week -- Politics 本周国际要闻政治 Boris Johnson looked wobbly as more evidence emerged of Downing Streets disregard for stringent restrictions introduced early in the pandemic. 随着越来越多的证据表明唐宁街无视疫情...
