The world this week -- Business 本周国际要闻商业 The world's stockmarkets continued to slide this week, as investors prepared for tighter monetary policy. 由于投资者们在为收紧的货币政策作准备，本周全球股市继续下滑。...
The Americas 美洲版块 Ice hockey 冰球 A puck in the teeth 牙齿上的冰球 Canada's best ice-hockey players cannot go to the Olympics 加拿大最好的冰球运动员不能参加奥运会了 Ice hockey matters in Canada. 冰球在加拿大很重...
Science Technology 科技版块 The study of fossils 化石研究 Digging deep 深挖 The tricky relationship between palaeontology and poor countries 古生物学与穷国之间微妙的关系 WHAT YOU see depends on where you stand. 你站在哪里决...
In a world where circumstances are changing rapidly, that matters. 在一个环境瞬息万变的世界里，这么做很重要。 A study published in 2016, for example, estimated that shifts in temperature and rainfall patterns could, by 2069, decr...
Science and Technology 科技版块 Plant breeding 植物育种 Chick-please 鹰嘴豆 A neglected crop is about to get a high-tech makeover 一种被忽视的作物即将进行高科技改造 PLINY THE ELDER, a Roman administrator with a sideline in...
Finance economics 财经版块 Economics 经济 The new consensus 新的共识 A new study finds that economies are agreeing with each other more 一项新的研究发现，各经济体之间的共识越来越一致 Observers have long poked fun at t...
Business 商业 Bartleby -- Of remote work and the writing 巴托比专栏关于远程工作与写作 The written word will flourish in the post-pandemic workplace 书面文字将在疫情后的职场蓬勃发展 The pandemic has given a big shove to...
Culture 文化 World in a dish -- The art of fasting 盘中的世界禁食的艺术 January is a season of abstinence, take a lesson from Ethiopia 一月是禁欲的季节，向埃塞俄比亚学习 Short days, long nights, freezing temperatures, Chr...
The world this week -- Politics 本周国际要闻政治 Russia moved yet more troops close to its border with Ukraine. 俄罗斯仍在向乌克兰边境增派更多军队。 Vladimir Putin's party claimed, without evidence, that Ukraine's government...
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...
