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Science and Technology. Looking for the Higgs. Enemy in sight? The search for the Higgs boson is closing in on its quarry. ON JULY 22nd two teams of researchers based at CERN, Europe's main partic...

科技捕获希格斯粒子敌军现身?希格斯玻色子的研究逼近其目标7月22日，驻欧洲粒子物理研究所(CERN，邻近日内瓦的欧洲主要粒子物理实验室)的两组研究人员在格勒诺布尔(Grenoble)欧洲物理协会的一次会议上声称，他们已经得到迄今为止最有力的...

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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?包装材料制造商宝廷的老总William Hic...

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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，少有人会得益于严格计...

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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，曾在壳牌公司作过会计...

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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，肮脏的拉各...

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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的大棚。 从弗林特 – 一个在...

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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、剑龙的打斗也成为俗套。...

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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。 通用汽车对沃蓝达首年销售目标一万辆...