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Business. American business. Hard times, lean firms. How much longer can America keep increasing productivity? EVERYONE complains that corporate America is reluctant to hire additional workers. ...

商业 美国公司 艰难时局磨练高效能企业 美国的生产率增长还能持续多久? 企业不愿再增加雇佣量在美国引起民怨沸腾。但很少有人关注减少失业率的有效途径：显着提升美国的劳动生产率水平。 这种提升能持续多久?包装材料制...

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Books and Arts. Book Review. A history of dieting. Binge and purge; Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2000 Years. By Louise Foxcroft. After the binge of the holidays, many stumble int...

文艺;书评;节食的历史;狂欢和清理; 《卡路里和束身衣：2000年来的节食历史》 Lousise Foxcroft 着。 在假日的狂欢之后，许多人宿醉，下着不坚定的决心，立志要减去数磅体重，在跌跌撞撞中进入了一月。哎呀，少有人会...

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Business. Face value. BRAC in business. Fazle Hasan Abed has built one of the world's most commercially-minded and successful NGOs. Smiling and dapper, Fazle Hasan Abed hardly seems like a revoluti...

商业;商界人物; BRAC的商业一面 法佐·哈桑·阿比德建立了世界上最具商业头脑的、最成功的NGO组织; 面带微笑、衣冠楚楚的法佐·哈桑·阿比德怎么看也不像是一个革命者。这个在英国受的教育的孟加拉人是莎士比亚和乔伊斯的粉丝...

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Still in Books and Arts. Book Review. A memoir of Nigeria Madmen on the ground. Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria. By Noo Saro-Wiwa. Throughout her childhood and early teens, Noo Sa...

文艺;书评;尼日利亚回忆录;尼日利亚游记; 《寻找仙境：尼日利亚游记》, Noo Saro-Wiwa 着。 孩提时代和少年时光的Noo，每年都要去尼日利亚度过她的夏季。到达尼日利亚和航班返回时的嗡嗡声一样让Noo感到厌恶。喧哗，...

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United States. Other Shrinking Cities. Smaller Is More Beautiful. Many other cities are battling problems almost as acute as Detroit’s. THE five kinds of heirloom tomatoes on Joanna Lehrma...

美国 其他萎缩的城市 更小，却更美丽 很多其他城市正在积极应对和底特律一样急迫的问题 在琼娜·勒曼和洛克森·艾黛儿的农场种植的五种传家宝西红柿看起来很美味。除此之外，在他们的农场里还有一个嗡嗡作响的蜂巢和冬天保护作物...

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What ate dinosaurs? Old crocs. Even in their heyday, dinosaurs were not quite as dominant as popular myth makes them out to be. ONE answer to the question, “What ate dinosaurs?” is, obviously, “Oth...

谁吃了恐龙 古鳄鱼 即便是在全盛时期，恐龙并非像民间传说所理解的那样占绝对统治地位 “谁吃恐龙”很明显，其中一个答案是：“其它恐龙”每个史前怪兽爱好者的脑海里浮现出的是像霸王龙、翼龙这样的兽脚类掠食者，电脑制作的它们与梁龙、剑龙的...

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Business. Carmaker. Revenge of the petrolheads. Fossil-fuel cars are getting much cleaner, making life hard for green ones. THE Chevrolet Volt, a compact, petrol-electric hybrid launched by GM a y...

商业 汽车制造商 燃油车赢得先机 燃油汽车越来越环保了，环保汽车日子难过了 雪佛兰新款车型沃蓝达结构紧凑，是由通用汽车公司在一年前推出的一款混合动力车，上个月它的电池在碰撞试验中起火，但在此之前它的销售很不理想。通用...

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Science and Technology. Materials science. Don't slag it off. How to make bricks out of industrial waste. BUILDING houses and offices out of toxic waste sounds like a pretty eccentric idea. Yet...

科技 材料科学 废渣别融掉 怎样用工业废渣制造砖块 用有毒废料建造住房和办公室的点子听起来真怪。但是如果西班牙坎塔布里亚大学的Ana Andres成功的话，这项技术就会广泛应用。 Ana Andres博士和她的...