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2009-03-17 22:34
Why immigration is good for America's business
为什么移民有利于美国商业
FOR all its current economic woes, America remains a beacon of entrepreneurialism. Between 1996 and 2004 an average of 550,000 small businesses were created every month. One factor is a fairly open immigration policy. Vivek Wadhwa of Duke University notes that 52% of Silicon Valley start-ups were founded by immigrants, up from aroun
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2009-03-17 22:10
As economic gloom sweeps the world, champagne is less popular
随着经济颓势横扫全球，香槟再也没有以前的魅力了
CHAMPAGNE, the ultimate good-time drink, is losing some of its sparkle. Shipments of bubbly to France and the world beyond in 2008 stumbled for the first time since the turn of the millennium, according to CIVC, a French trade body. Gloom after the bursting of the dotcom bubble also dragged down champ |
2009-03-17 21:53
Some Americans are getting as mad as hell
有些美国人逐渐变得怒不可遏
Illustration by KAL
IN ONE of his short stories, “The Quantity Theory of Insanity”, Will Self suggests that there is a fixed amount of craziness in the world. If one person beco
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2008-11-06 13:30
Angry with the president-and China
对总统和大陆不满
Hardly a welcome party
不受支持的党
SINCE the inauguration in May of President Ma Ying-jeou, Taiw
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2008-11-05 17:08
Interest-rate cuts are welcome; but as a global recession looms, the case for fiscal stimulus grows
利率削减广受欢迎；但是随着全球经济衰退的袭近，财政刺激方案的需求与日俱增
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2008-11-04 20:09
Fortunes in the mining business come and go faster than ever
矿产业的财富从未如此快速地积聚和消失过
Australian commodities firms 澳大利亚大宗商品企业
WHO wants to be a gazillionaire? Dotcom tycoons in the 1990 |
2008-11-04 20:00
If he is to succeed, America’s next president needs to inherit at least a modicum of the character and talent that FDR brought to his tasks
如果下任美国总统打算名垂史册，那么他多少要秉承一些罗斯福总统执政时的才干和谋略
“MY POLICY is as |
2008-11-04 19:58
A striking number of conservatives are planning to vote for Obama
众多的保守派人士正计划将选票投向奥巴马
IN “W.”, his biopic about his Yale classmate, Oliver Stone details Colin Powell’s agonies during George Bush’s first term. Throughout the film Mr Powell repeatedly raises doubts about the invasion
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2008-11-04 19:56
On food safety, the Chinese press applies an odd precautionary principle
中国新闻媒体就食品安全问题所持的”审慎”态度，可谓匪夷所思发人深省
IT IS, declares China’s foreign ministry, a “big step forward” in its handling of foreign journalists in the country. On October 17th a temporary relaxation of rules governing the |
2008-11-04 19:53
Why it is in America’s own interest to let the Iraqis have their way
为什么说让伊拉克人走自己的路符合美国自身的利益？
BARACK OBAMA and John McCain have spent much of the past year quarrelling about when and how the United States should leave Iraq, hoping to sway the minds of millions of American voters. What is sometimes overlooked in t |
