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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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Science and Technology. Solar heat for oil wells. Mirrors in glasshouses… …can be used to heat stones. THERE is a lot of energy from ancient sunshine stored in the oil that sits below the deserts ...

科技 用于油井的太阳热能 温室的反光镜…... …...能用于加热石头 古代阳光的很多能量储存于埋藏在阿曼沙漠下的石油里。如今，还是有很多阳光照射在这些沙漠之上。 不过，一项已确定的技术革新应该允许那部分如今的...

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Business. How to spend it. The tech giant should give cash back to shareholders. NOT long after Steve Jobs died last year, wags eulogised the Apple co-founder with a joke: "Ten years ago we had St...

商业 钱多了该怎么花 巨额现金流应该部分返还股东 苹果公司创始人史蒂夫·乔布斯去年病逝后不久，就有这样一个赞颂他的笑话流行起来："10年前，我们有史蒂夫·乔布斯, 鲍勃·霍普和约翰尼·卡什，现在呢，手头没有工作(乔布斯姓J...

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Prime numbers. Commercial property has bounced back, but only in the best locations. IN SOME corners of the commercial-property market a slight whiff of self-congratulation is in the air. Doom-lad...

顶级商业房产，如质数般稀少 商业地产已经复苏，但是只在黄金地带 在商业地产市场的某些角落里，空气中漂浮着一丝自得的气息。商业地产将会是“下一只掉落的鞋子”——这条2008年和2009年初发出的警告并没有最终成为现实。那些希望靠出...

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Science and Technology. Air travel. Please be seated. A faster way of boarding planes could save time and money. THE job of the professional astrophysicist is to contemplate the music of the spher...

科技 飞机旅行 请就坐 一种更快速的登机方法可以节约时间和金钱 天体物理学家的工作是凝视太空，欣赏太空中的天体音乐(天文学家一直相信有天体音乐之说)。然而，全球化的现代科学使得今天的天体物理学家也经常花费同样的时间去...

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Finance & Economics, Economics focus Drain or gain? Poor countries can end up benefiting when their brightest citizens emigrate. WHEN people in rich countries worry about migration, they tend to t...

财经科学 经济聚焦 人才外流，是得还是失 穷国最终会从人才外流中获益 发达国家担心移民，他们通常考虑的是对收入要求较低的移民会和他们竞争就业岗位，例如建筑工人，洗碗工或是农场工人。而发展中国家担心移民，则通常考虑的是，他们...

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70 Old Bust.Current plans to raise the retirement age are not bold enough.PUT aside the cruise brochures and let the garden retain that natural look for a few more years. Demography and declining inve...

要么70岁退休,要么破产 目前提高退休年龄的计划不够大胆 先将海上巡游的宣传册放一放，让花园的自然面貌多保持几年吧!人口结构和日益减少的投资回报导致你要工作长得多的时间，超出你以往的预期。 这一痛苦的事实在发达国家已经不是...

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The size and reach of the alleged NSA surveillancehave outraged European leaders.[Former]French President Francois Hollandecalled it "unacceptable."German Chancellor Angela Merkel -whose cell phone wa...