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Steve: Hi Professor Popkin. How are you today? Popkin: Fantastic! Steve: Tell me about this article and this subject, "the world is fat." Obviously it's fat if you walk around the U.S. but the world...

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Too much, too young. Watch your wallets: the baby-boomers are beginning to retire. WHEN MOST LABOUR was agricultural, people generally toiled in the fields until they dropped. The idea of formal ...

太多，太年轻 看住钱包：生育高峰期的一代人正在退休 过去，大多数劳力只是下田干活，直到再也干不动，才结束在土地上辛勤的劳作。自劳动从牧场转到工厂开始，正式退休这个概念才被广为流传。1889年，俾斯麦首次在德国实施第一个(小范围)...

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United States. Redistricting rows. Not so easy. Republican hopes of snagging extra seats following last year’s census look doomed to disappointment. REDISTRICTING, so the old saying goes, is when p...

美国 重新划分选区之争 并不容易 共和党人想要通过去年的人口普查数据再获得一些新席位,不大可行 老话讲，重新划分选区就是政治家选择投票者。每隔十年，在全国人口普查之后，各个州要为国会代表以及州立法委员重划选区界限。在大部分州，执...

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United States. Small-town corruption. Business paradise or den of thieves? An effort to abolish a highly unusual Californian city. EVEN Vernon’s logo proclaims that the city is “exclusively indus...

美国 小镇腐败 商业天堂还是贼窝? 消除一座特别另类之加州城市的努力 即便弗农市的标志上宣称本市“专事工业”，这种说法也并未言过其实。1905年，该市创建于洛杉矶河沿岸的一处铁路线交汇处，人们将此地作为某种商业(尤其是又脏...

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United States. Preschool funding. Toddle to the top. Cash-strapped states cut funding for nurseries. LILY, who is three-and-a-half, loves her nursery school in Queens. Her mother calls her “the s...

美国 学前教育经费 走到了头 资金短缺的州政府削减了对托儿所的经费 莉莉，一个三岁半的小女孩，爱她的位于纽约皇后区的托儿所。她妈妈 叫她“海绵宝宝”，因为每天她都带着一些新的知识回家。但并不是每个小孩都像莉莉那么幸运。一份美国国...

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The effects of America's worst property crash go very wide. TO THE many dubious distinctions of Las Vegas, add one more: foreclosure capital of America. According to RealtyTrac, a property-listings...

房地产崩盘连锁效应，情况还能更坏? 拉斯维加斯的诸多不安因素又添了一个：取消住宅赎回权的资本。根据房地产上市公司RealtyTrac，去年城中每十座住宅就有一所被取消赎回权，几乎是全国平均水平的五倍。在北拉斯维加斯相对贫穷的郊区，这个...

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This was not the radical reforming budget it had been billed as. But its heart was in the right place “THIS is not a tax-raising budget. But nor can we afford a giveaway.” Thus George Osborne, the ...

虽不如它所标榜的“激进的、革新的预算”，但其动机还是积极的。 “这不是一个增税的计划，但我们也负担不起减税了。”在3月23日，现任英国财政大臣乔治奥斯本，提出了他的第二套财政紧缩预算。早在去年六月奥斯本的紧急减赤预案中，已经全面地回顾...

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Asia. Coping with Japan's nuclear disaster. Living with radiation. A spreading cloud of economic and human costs. A PEN-LIKE dosimeter hangs around the neck of Katsunobu Sakurai, the tireless ma...

亚洲 应对日本核灾难 与辐射共生 经济和民众开销忧虑蔓延开来 形似钢笔的放射量测量器戴在樱井胜延的脖子上，这位不知疲倦的南相马市市长正在测量他在过去两周中吸收的累积辐射量，而核噩梦已经持续四个周了。测量器显示的43毫...