Business 商业版块 Airlines and the climate 航空公司与气候 Setting a new CORSIA 设立新的《国际航空碳抵消和减排计划》 A carbon-intensive industry defangs an already mostly toothless offset scheme 碳密集型产业摧毁了基...
Conventional wisdom holds that battery-powered cars are the future of motoring. 传统观点认为，电池驱动汽车是汽车驾驶的未来。 But Hyundai, a big South Korean vehicle-maker, is not so sure. 但是韩国大型汽车制造商现代汽...
Arab governments have passed laws against cybercrime and online terrorism to cow social-media firms and their users. Facebook tries to comply with local codes. It has opened an office in Dubai to liaise with officials in the region. Digital platforms...
According to the book, ordinary Americans, too, are ill-equipped to grapple with the presidents brazenness. Ever since Watergate, they have been primed to sniff out political conspiracy. But Mr Trump lacks the attention span and managerial skills to...
Books arts 文艺板块 Book Review 书评 American politics 美国政治学 Orange warning 橙色警告 Surviving Autocracy. 《幸存的独裁统治》 By Masha Gessen. 作者：玛莎格森 Two days after Donald Trump was elected, Masha Gessen arg...
Latin America, however, proved a laggard. Itmanaged an average growth rate in real per personincomes of just 1.9% in the 2000s: 但事实证明拉丁美洲是一个落后者。在本世纪头10年，其真实的人均收入增长率仅为1.9%： fast...
Where covid-19 strikes, it reveals hard truths. 新型冠状病毒肺炎所到之处，揭示了残酷的事实。 In recent weeks Latin America has become the centre of the pandemic, responsible for over half of daily deaths. 在近几周，拉丁美洲...
Size is part of the problem. Facebook has 2.7bn users, many of whom write in foreign languages. Their posts are vetted for hate speech and incitement. But the firms 15,000 content moderators struggle to cope. Most do not know Arabic and its dialects....
Middle East Africa 中东和非洲板块 Facebook and autocrats Facebook和专制统治者 With friends like these 和这样的朋友在一起 The social-media giant has been bending to the will of Arab despots 社交媒体巨头Facebook屈从于阿拉...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Following months of talks, the unSecurity Council passed a resolution calling for a 90-day global ceasefire to allow wartorn areas to battle COVID-19. 经过几个月的谈判，联合国安理会通...
When Piaf invited her to come and see her at Gernys, an ultra-chic cabaret, she felt too shy to go. Street singing was dying fast, though. By the beginning of the 1950s those 30 groups were fast disappearing. Soon she was the last. And more glitterin...
If correct, says Francois Delmotte, who works at INRAE's campus in Bordeaux Francois Delmotte在INRAE位于波尔多的营地工作，也是该项目的领导之一， and is one of the project's leaders, the finding fits with certain historical fact...
Since wheeled drones are in effect selfdriving cars, albeit passenger-less ones, they need authorities approval to operate. This has not always been forthcoming. Now the corona shock is softening up regulators, says Ryu Kentaro of ZMP, a maker of rol...
In Amity, those in charge see the danger but fail to act swiftly. Brody, the local police chief (played by Roy Scheider), is wellmeaning but unprepared. After the first shark attack the self-important Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) persuades him to k...
A century and a half ago an alien insect alighted in Europe. 一个半世纪以前，一种外来昆虫飞落欧洲。 It displaced millions, ruined local economies and forced scientists, politicians and ordinary folk into a frenzy of defensive activ...
