The problem may be that sick-pay rules are too strict for employees, not too generous. Given the need to pay the rent, many low-paid workers may feel they have to work unless they are so sick as to be physically incapable of leaving the house. But th...
The world this week 本周要闻 Business 商业 Staggering from the effects of coronavirus on business, stockmarkets were also sent reeling by Saudi Arabia's decision to instigate an oil-price war with Russia, as the pair's agreement over production...
Freeman Dyson, physicist and big thinker, died on February 28th, aged 96. 物理学家、伟大的思想家弗里曼戴森于2月28日逝世，享年96岁。 There are, wrote Freeman Dyson towards the end of his long life, two different kinds of math...
Vehicles are also moving away from fossil fuels: America expects to have all-electric brigades within the decade. 车辆也正在远离化石燃料：美国预计在十年内将拥有全电动车队。 A report by the army in 2018 said that Holos, a...
Business 来源于《商业》版块 Bartleby 巴托比职场专栏 In sickness and in health 不论生病还是健康 Rethinking attitudes towards employee illness 重新思考对待员工疾病的态度 The global spread of covid-19 has led to call...
War zones are dangerous places. Where better, then, for a nuclear reactor? 战区是危险的地方。对核反应堆来说，却是个好地方。 On March 9th America's government awarded a trio of firms $39.7m 3月9日，美国政府给三家公司拨...
What should politicians do? Each country must strike its own balance between the benefits of tracking the disease and the invasion of privacy, but South Korea and China show the power of big data and mass-testing as a way of identifying cases and lim...
A lot of thought goes into the names of policies, which politicians naturally want to resonate in a positive way. Sometimes that means rebranding old ideas, or borrowing words from another domain. Democrats who say the state should pay for every Amer...
A lot of thought goes into the names of policies, which politicians naturally want to resonate in a positive way. Sometimes that means rebranding old ideas, or borrowing words from another domain. Democrats who say the state should pay for every Amer...
Italy's membership of the euro means that tackling the epidemic depends not just on ministers in Rome. 意大利的欧元区成员国身份意味着，应对这一流行病不仅取决于罗马的部长们。 The European Central Bank (ECB) could hel...
Books amp; arts 来源于《图书和艺术》 Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 Old wine, new bottles 新瓶装旧酒 Framing policies in focus-grouped language gets politicians only so far 用聚焦的语言制定政策只能让政客们到此为止 La...
Universal systems like Britains National Health Service should find it easier to mobilise resources and adapt rules and practices than fragmented, private ones that have to worry about who pays whom and who is liable for what. The United States, desp...
The world this week 本周要闻 Politics 政治 Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, said that he would be prepared to continue in office past 2024, when his fourth and supposedly final presidential term expires. The Russian parliament voted this wee...
Few people would wish to trade places with Giuseppe Conte, Italy's prime minister. 没什么人愿意和意大利总理朱塞佩孔特交换位置。 As covid-19 spread he put the entire country into lockdown for the first time since the second world...
The uncertainty has many sources. One is that sars-cov-2 and the disease it causes, covid-19, are not fully understood. Another is over the status of the pandemic. In each region or country it tends to proliferate rapidly undetected. By the time test...
