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The flight to the suburbs is changing inner London too. Lambeth, a south London borough, has long been known as the first home of the capital’s black-Caribbean population: the passengers of the Empire...

飞往郊区的航班也改变了伦敦内部格局。伦敦南部自治区朗伯斯区长期以来一直被认为是伦敦加勒比人的第一所在地，1948年帝国疾风号的乘客大部分在这定居。但自从2001年加勒比黑人迁徙出去，而非洲人在这落根。商店里陈列着便宜的钱币兑换广告，可以打到...

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Britain. Measuring diversity. The London effect. Britain is becoming more like its capital city. Milton Keynes, a new town of 249,000 people some 50 miles from London, is famous among Britons for...

英国 衡量种族多样化 伦敦效应 英国渐渐成为一个大都市 米尔顿·凯恩斯这个新兴小镇，离伦敦只有50米，拥有249,000人口，其美国风格的道路布局，明亮超级摩登的购物商场，用混泥土和玻璃纤维做的不吉利的牛群雕塑，在英国人中...

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The extra cash now promised must be spent on repairing damaged defences, not investing in new ones. It was a failure characteristic of a government that has too often sacrificed long-term spending ...

现今政府许诺增加的预算势必会用于修复损毁防御设施，而无法投资新建。政府常常会牺牲掉用于基础设施的长期预算，弥补短期节省开支造成的经济状况，这是政府失职的表现之一。 对于英国国内的洪灾，政府最初的反应同样令人不敢恭维。卡梅伦暗示称由于此...

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Britain's floods. Canute Cameron. The [Former]prime minister's response to the floods has been patchy; but it is wrong to blame him for them. Biblical—that is how David Cameron described the floo...

洪水泛滥大不列颠 卡梅伦祸从口出 [前]首相治洪引发质疑，归咎于他有失公允 过去几周，英格兰南部洪灾泛滥，数千公顷农场一片汪洋，五千家庭流离失所，无奈之际首相卡梅伦称之为上帝的旨意。如今，洪灾区铁路中断，公共服务陷入混乱。...

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Middle east and Africa. East African camels. Speedy and tasty. The camel trade is increasingly lucrative. “Allahu akbar!” the boys shout gleefully from atop their camels, the reins of others held ...

中东和非洲 东非骆驼 又快又有味儿 骆驼贸易越来越获益 “真主至大！”一群男孩坐在骆驼背上开心地喊着，高举的拳头里攥着其它骆驼的缰绳，背向夕阳而行。不远处，金属栅栏围起的赛道穿过薄饼般平坦的沙漠。这块大平地位于苏丹东部城市卡萨拉...

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Putting up prices at a time of weak demand and fierce competition seems perverse. Yet the industry has continued to increase its sticker prices by 2-3% every year—only to give back almost all the g...

在需求小，竞争激烈的时候提高价格似乎有些悖于常理，但是律师行业仍旧持续以每年2%-3%的速度提高标价——仅仅只是提供一个更好的折扣给顾客。原因之一在于，因为更多的客户发现他们能讨价还价，律师事务所意识到开始协商的最好办法就是给出最高索价。而...

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Business. Law firms. Charging more, getting less. Lawyers' biggest customers are discovering that they can haggle. There were groans in big companies' legal departments in the mid-2000s, when th...

商业 律师事务所 标价更高 收益更少 律师的最大客户们发现他们能与律师还价 当美国最高的律师酬金达到每小时1000美元，20世纪中期，一些大公司的法律部门里开始抱怨连连。自此以后，这样的价格在名企变得普遍。美国法律期刊刊登...

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Space telescopes are nothing new, of course, and several more are in the works. But existing plans to photograph extrasolar planets in this way involve orbiting arrays of reflecting telescopes all poi...

当然，太空望远镜并不是什么新事物，并且已经有几个已经在使用中了。但是在现在的计划中，利用这种方法给太阳系以外的行星拍照就需要让多组的反射望远镜在轨道运行的时候全部精准的朝向同一个方向。由于一个体积足够大到能够将恒星与行星分开的单一镜面将会由...