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Business. Schumpeter. Bringing home the bacon. Tiny Denmark is an agricultural superpower. Every weekday 20,000 pigs are delivered to the Danish Crown company's slaughterhouse in Horsens, in cen...

商业报道 熊彼特 将培根带回家 小国丹麦是农业超级霸主 在每一个工作日里，2万只猪将被送入丹麦科王公司位于丹麦中部的霍尔森斯的屠宰场中。他们受到持着巨型苍蝇拍的工人们驱赶，快步地跑进那令人震撼无比的房间中去。在那儿，他们被倒挂起...

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South Korea’s education system. The great decompression. There are perils for a country in having all your children working too hard for one big exam. Few countries have done better than South Ko...

韩国的教育体制 大减压 对一个国家来说，让所有孩子都为一场大型考试而筋疲力尽是很危险的 在过去的半个世纪，几乎没有国家表现得比韩国更好。在仅仅一代工作人口的时间跨度里，韩国经济增长了17倍。韩国政府也从严厉的独裁政权进化成了热闹...

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Britain. Linguistics. Argot bargy. Why urban teenagers speak the way they do? In her novel “White Teeth”, published in 2000, Zadie Smith noted that in London, “all kids, whatever their nationali...

英国 语言学 方言来袭 城里的年轻人为什么那样说话 扎迪史密斯在2000年发表过一部小说，名字叫《白牙》，在书中，她提到在伦敦，所有的孩子，不管他们来自哪里，似乎用牙买加口音表达自己的鄙视。从那时起，语言学研究者逐渐明白了如何以...

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Books and Arts; Book Review; Harry Belafonte's autobiography； Twentieth-century lion； My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race and Defiance. By Harry Belafonte； It all began with a set of Venetian blinds. ...

文艺 书评 哈利·贝拉方特自传 上世纪的名流 《我的歌：追忆艺术，种族与反抗》哈利·贝拉方特着 这一切要从一套百叶窗帘说起。故事发生在1946年的曼哈顿，有对夫妇想在家里安装一套百叶窗帘，于是便叫来一位公寓清洁工，作为报酬...

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His heroes were the alpinists of the early 20th century, George Mallory, Tom Longstaff, Freddie Chapman and the rest, who had climbed the world's greatest peaks in tweed jackets and leather boots. Lik...

他心目中的英雄大都是20世纪初期的登山家，有乔治·马洛里、汤姆·隆斯塔夫、弗雷迪·查普曼等人，他们都是仅靠一身花呢上装和一双皮靴就征服了众多世界高峰的人。和他们一样，罗杰·佩恩也是以小队形式登山，而且常常是他与妻子（朱利安·克里玛，也是一名...

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Cyclones and climate change. The new normal? Physics suggests that storms will get worse as the planet warms. But it is too early to tell if it is actually happening. Was typhoon Haiyan the s...

飓风与气候变化 习以为常？ 物理学研究表明全球变暖将导致更猛烈的风暴，但一切尚未可知 台风海燕是有记录以来的最强登陆风暴吗？气象学家们恐怕永远都不会知道。可靠记录只能回溯几十年。不过可以肯定，这是史上最强风暴之一。除了统计...

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“A PARADISE for spies” is how a former agent of the Soviet KGB described Japan in the 1980s. Little has changed, though now the politicians and bureaucrats more often pass information to journalists t...

“间谍的天堂”，在80年代，潜伏日本的前苏联克格勃特工如此称呼这个国度。到如今，“天堂”依然是“天堂”，只不过相比外国特工，政客与官员现在更多是把消息透露给记者。但这个秋天，安倍晋三[前]首相决意推动一部新的强有力的保密法案，希望以此止住泄...

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In fact, by being on hand to pick up assets cheaply from distressed sellers, an unleveraged asset manager arguably stabilises markets rather than disrupting them. But for regulators that want not m...

事实上，通过低价收购亏损方出售的资产，毫无疑问一家独大的投资管理公司能够为市场带来稳定，而非混乱。要不是监管机构不仅希望避免上次金融危机重演，还想确认未来体系风险的来源，贝莱德还会引发另一微妙的问题，不是资产的所有权，而是买入或卖出的决策方...