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2021年经济学人 中国首个空间站核心舱"天和"发射成功
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治版块 Indias second wave of COVID-19 gained strength. The number of infections detected hit new records, with some 380,000 on April 28th alone. The official death toll surpassed 200,000, though e
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2021年经济学人 美国疾控中心发布"口罩令"最新指南
Hungary passed a law to hand control of state universities to foundations. These are likely to be run by ruling-party supporters, who can appoint their successors. This arrangement cannot be changed without a two-thirds majority in parliament. Critic
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2021年经济学人 华为第一季度营收同比减少16.5%
The world this week 一周国际要闻 Business 商业版块 In a speech to a joint session of Congress, Joe Biden laid out his American Families Plan, the most ambitious attempt to expand social programmes since the 1960s. The plan includes universa
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2021年经济学人 特斯拉第一季度净利润4.38亿美元
Lyft has followed Uber in giving up the development of autonomous vehicles. The ride-hailing company sold its self-driving-cars unit to Toyota. It will be integrated into the Japanese carmakers Woven Planet division. 继优步之后,Lyft也放弃了打
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2021年经济学人 以色列对加沙地带发动数百次空袭
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治版块 Israel and Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza, were on the brink of war. The crisis began with clashes around the al-Aqsa mosque, Islams third-holiest site. Israeli police fired s
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2021年经济学人 中国疫苗"入世" 缓解全球疫苗短缺
Britains Labour Party lost Hartlepool in a by-election, a constituency it had held since its creation in 1974. A huge swing gave the Conservatives 52% of the vote, nearly twice that of Labour; sitting governments have won by-elections only a handful
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2021年经济学人 疫散终有时,余波尚无期(1)
Leaders 社论 Long covid 新冠病毒的长期并发症 And now for the aftershock 余波未平 Evidence is mounting that long covid is a real threat to global health 越来越多的证据表明,新冠病毒的长期并发症会对全球健康构成
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2021年经济学人 疫散终有时,余波尚无期(2)
As yet, long covid has no cure. What scientists know so far about the disease points to it being a combination of a persistent viral infection (for which a drug may be found at some point), a chronic autoimmune disorder (which would need expensive, c
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2021年经济学人 美国要害--不堪一击的能源基础设施(1)
United States 美国版块 Hacking and ransoms 黑客攻击与勒索 Post-Colonial studies Colonial Pipeline遭受勒索攻击事件的复盘 A cyber-attack exposes growing risks to Americas energy infrastructure 一次网络攻击事件暴露出美国
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2021年经济学人 美国要害--不堪一击的能源基础设施(2)
Yet weaknesses remain. The shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline exposes gaps in companies cyber-armour. It also reveals the idea that shale oil might guarantee energy security to be a fallacy. Oil may be fungible but oil infrastructure is not, notes Mic
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2021年经济学人 全球经济迎"疫后繁荣",推高美国通胀隐忧(1)
Leaders 社论 Supply shortages 供应短缺 The bottleneck economy 瓶颈经济 Americas boom is increasing worries about an inflation scare 美国的繁荣引起了人们对通货膨胀的进一步担忧 The global economy is entering unfamiliar te
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2021年经济学人 全球经济迎"疫后繁荣",推高美国通胀隐忧(2)
As booming demand runs up against tight supply, inflation is in the spotlight. In April American consumer prices rose by 4.2% year on year, up from 2.6% in March. This partly reflects base effects: oil prices are only as high as they were in 2019, bu
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2021年经济学人 BBC大厦将倾,溃在旦夕(1)
Britain 英国板块 The BBC 英国广播电台 A colossus quietly crumbles 庞然大物的悄然坍塌 The corporation can cope with a hostile government and angry royals, but not with Mickey Mouse BBC上能处理敌对政府,下能安抚愤怒的皇
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2021年经济学人 BBC大厦将倾,溃在旦夕(2)
Conservative politicians have long suspected the BBC of closet liberal leanings. Boris Johnsons government uses the Brexit-Bashing Corporation as a punchbag, as part of a strategy of drawing cultural dividing lines rather than economic ones. But the
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2021年经济学人 手机大数据窥探隐私,苹果新规来帮忙(1)
Business 商业版块 Digital advertising 数字广告 Flying blind 两眼一摸黑 Apples privacy rules force marketers to find new ways to target ads 苹果的隐私规则迫使营销商在精准投放广告上另谋出路 Online shoppers often fee