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The Americas. Water in Brazil. Nor any drop to drink. Dry weather and a growing population spell rationing. Brazil has the world's biggest reserves of fresh water. That most of it sits in the s...

美洲 巴西水资源 无水可喝 干旱的气候和快速增长的人口迫使水资源限量分配 巴西拥有世界最大淡水储备量。但这些淡水大多分布在人烟稀少的亚马逊并不能缓解巴西由来已久的干旱问题，以至于大部分南方民众都对干旱习以为常。以前圣保罗的农场主...

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A further 20% entered through preferences given to other family members. That left just 14% who were sponsored by companies, about the same share who first entered the country as refugees or asylum...

另外有20%的人从其他家庭成员获得了优先权。剩下的人是由公司资助仅有14%，他们是作为难民或寻求庇护者（还有5%是彩票中奖者）首次移民到该国。尽管存在这种对家庭成员的偏向，但是相对于1986年到1990年间，拥有学位的移民者比例从27%上升...

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United States. Skilled Immigration: Six degrees and separation. Immigrants are arriving better educated than ever before. Jose Rommel Umano, who is originally from the Philippines, moved to New Y...

美国 技术移民：六级与分裂 移民受教育水平比以往有所提高 何塞·罗梅尔·乌曼诺来自菲律宾，他去年秋天搬到了纽约。珍妮·贝塔罗娃说道，这种程度在美国是没有过的。他的签证是家庭团聚签证，他的妻子已经在美国生活了一段时间。 这是...

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The flight to the suburbs is changing inner London too. Lambeth, a south London borough, has long been known as the first home of the capital’s black-Caribbean population: the passengers of the Empire...

飞往郊区的航班也改变了伦敦内部格局。伦敦南部自治区朗伯斯区长期以来一直被认为是伦敦加勒比人的第一所在地，1948年帝国疾风号的乘客大部分在这定居。但自从2001年加勒比黑人迁徙出去，而非洲人在这落根。商店里陈列着便宜的钱币兑换广告，可以打到...

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Britain. Measuring diversity. The London effect. Britain is becoming more like its capital city. Milton Keynes, a new town of 249,000 people some 50 miles from London, is famous among Britons for...

英国 衡量种族多样化 伦敦效应 英国渐渐成为一个大都市 米尔顿·凯恩斯这个新兴小镇，离伦敦只有50米，拥有249,000人口，其美国风格的道路布局，明亮超级摩登的购物商场，用混泥土和玻璃纤维做的不吉利的牛群雕塑，在英国人中...

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The extra cash now promised must be spent on repairing damaged defences, not investing in new ones. It was a failure characteristic of a government that has too often sacrificed long-term spending ...

现今政府许诺增加的预算势必会用于修复损毁防御设施，而无法投资新建。政府常常会牺牲掉用于基础设施的长期预算，弥补短期节省开支造成的经济状况，这是政府失职的表现之一。 对于英国国内的洪灾，政府最初的反应同样令人不敢恭维。卡梅伦暗示称由于此...

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Britain's floods. Canute Cameron. The [Former]prime minister's response to the floods has been patchy; but it is wrong to blame him for them. Biblical—that is how David Cameron described the floo...

洪水泛滥大不列颠 卡梅伦祸从口出 [前]首相治洪引发质疑，归咎于他有失公允 过去几周，英格兰南部洪灾泛滥，数千公顷农场一片汪洋，五千家庭流离失所，无奈之际首相卡梅伦称之为上帝的旨意。如今，洪灾区铁路中断，公共服务陷入混乱。...

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A young boy cries out in pain. He wants water, but he is afraid of it when his parents bring it to him. Saliva flows out of his mouth. His mouth and chin are wet. His eyes roll with fear. His back lif...