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SLOWLY, though his heart was pounding like a runner’s, Roman Opalka approached the canvas. He had painted it completely black. The date, though he set no store by dates, was 1965. Clenched in his left...

尽管心跳已如奔跑的人一样快，罗曼·欧帕尔卡还是慢慢地走到画布前。画布已经被他全部涂上了纯黑色。这一天，尽管他没有记录日期，是在1965年。他左手端着一碟白色丙烯酸颜料，右手握住0号笔刷（标准号码里面最小的笔刷），然后笔尖蘸上颜料，轻柔地，慢...

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Book and arts. Book review. American business in wartime. Democracy's arsenal. Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II. By Arthur Herman. “WHAT is America but be...

书籍和艺术 书评 美国的战时经济 民主阵营的兵工厂 《铸就自由：美国工业如何赢得了二战》亚瑟·赫尔曼着。 “除了选美皇后、百万富翁、可笑的记录和好莱坞，美国还有啥？”阿道夫·希特勒1940年这样问。现在回头看，这几乎可以算...

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A SCHOOLBOY once asked George Daniels what he had at the end of the chain that led to his pocket. A silly question, really. But it was worth asking, because what Mr Daniels pulled out, carefully, was ...

一名男学生曾经问乔治·丹尼尔斯，他那根伸进衣袋的链子末端有什么。多么愚蠢的问题。但是值得一答。因为丹尼尔斯小心翼翼从口袋里拿出来的表被他称为“宇宙旅行者之表”。表盘上不仅能显示平太阳时，还能显示平恒星时、时差，记录月相。丹尼尔斯说，去火星旅...

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Book and arts. Book review. Immortality. For ever and ever. Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilisation. By Stephen Cave. IMMORTALITY is an age-old obsession. Plenty o...

书籍和艺术 书评 永生 追求永生 《永生：对长命百岁的追求及这是如何影响文明》史提芬·凯夫着 永生是人们亘古不变的追求。不论是苏美尔人的《《吉尔迦美什史诗》，还是荷马的诗歌，亦或是《旧约》，大量的文学作品都以此为主题。历经了数...

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Sirte, where he was born in a Bedouin tent in the sand-wastes and died amid the crackle of sniper fire; Misrata, where he went to a private tutor to learn history; Benghazi, where at military college ...

苏尔特，卡扎菲生于荒野沙漠的贝多因帐篷内，葬身于阻击的枪林弹雨之中。在米苏拉塔，卡扎菲拜访家庭教师学习历史。在班加西军事院校时，卡扎菲开始策划起义；在的黎波里巴布阿齐耶耶区时，他的军营一半被炸，七零八散；然而，这位穆斯林领袖又在此安营扎寨，...

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Book and arts. Book review. Emerging markets: To have or have not. Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles. By Ruchir Sharma. “EMERGING markets” is a useful term precisely bec...

书籍和艺术 书评 新兴市场：取舍之间 《经济突破型国家：追逐未来经济奇迹》，拉尔奇.沙尔曼着 “新兴市场”这个词，准确说来，实用性在于它的定义不准确。投资者想找个热门地区投资，此词便应运而生，它涵盖的经济体范围令人匪夷所思，而且...

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WHEN Wislawa Szymborska won the world's top literary prize in 1996, her friends called it the “Nobel disaster”. This was not just because she had spent an uncomfortable night before the award ceremony...

1996年维斯瓦娃·希姆博尔斯卡荣获世界最顶级的诺贝尔文学奖时，她的朋友们管这事儿叫做“诺贝尔灾难”。在诺奖颁奖典礼前夜，她下榻在斯德哥尔摩大酒店，然而在这里她能打开的灯只有浴室的，结果她只好在浴室里度过了一个难捱的夜晚。灾难的原因还不止于...

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THE game of football regularly produces playboys, celebrities, racists, billionaires, fashion models and spoilt brats. What it does not produce is saints; with one exception. When Sailen Manna died, 2...

足球这项运动往往让人联想到花花公子、时尚名流、种族主义者、亿万富翁、时装模特和纨绔子弟。在圣者寥寥的足球场上，赛伦·曼纳却是个例外。他去世后，两千人簇拥着他的遗体，陪伴他从加尔各答顺着恒河支流胡格利河畔，送他到Keoratala陵园。对于送...