经济学人316:梦想愈来愈近
ALL-WHITE neighbourhoods are effectively extinct, according to The End of the Segregated Century, a recent report by the Manhattan Institute, a New York think-tank. Only 0.5% of Americas 70,000 neighbourhoods are now all-white. In fact, American citi
经济学人317:新创企业-料理他们的花园
A MAN walks into a conference room at the W hotel in downtown Austin. The setting, sleek and hushed, says business. The trainersred, puffy, and paired with a sports coatadd a wink: new business. 一名男士步入了奥斯汀市中心W酒店的会议室
经济学人318:房屋市场春寒料峭
THE reanimation of Americas housing market has been a long time coming. Residential building last contributed positively to growth in 2005. Housing-construction employment has dropped 43% since then. Government efforts to resuscitate the market have
经济学人319:消失的美好时代
NOW almost five years old, the economic crisis rumbles on. In order to assess how much economic progress it has undone, The Economist has constructed a measure of lost time for hard-hit countries. It shows that Greeces economic clock has been turned
经济学人320:无处高速 Going Nowhere Fast
NOT long ago, Barack Obama was hoping that high-speed trains would provide America with the desired twofer. First, building the special tracks and locomotives would put a division or two of Americas army of unemployed back to work. Then, once built,
经济学人321:势利之国 Snob Nation
ON FEBRUARY 25th Rick Santorum, the second-ranking Republican presidential hopeful, called President Barack Obama a snob for advising everyone to get themselves a college education. America, apparently, is a nation of snobs. In a recent poll 94% of p
经济学人322:纽约的警察同志们,有木有玩过头了?
BECAUSE of the September 2001 attacks, the New York Police Department has become a sophisticated counter-terrorism agency. In the decade since then the NYPD has increased the number of detectives on a joint task-force it has long operated with the FB
经济学人323:差距再次扩大
OCCUPY WALL STREET may be long gone from lower Manhattan, but worries persist about the gap between Americas richest 1% and the rest. Talk of inequality pervades the presidential race. In his January state-of-the-union message, Barack Obama called th
经济学人324:美国的清真寺越来越多
IN EARLY 2010 opponents of a proposed mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, spray-painted NOT WELCOME on a sign announcing the new building. Simple-minded vandalism, perhaps; but their scrawl captured the feelings of an increasingly noisy segment of Ame
经济学人325:洛杉矶的新星——地景艺术
THE object in question is really just a very large granite boulder. It weighs 340 tons and is the size of a house. It sat unappreciated in a California quarry until Michael Heizer, an artist, spotted it. He decided to haul the rock to a museum in Los
经济学人326:北方投机佬的胜利
THE night before Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi voted in their primaries, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum made their final appeals at a forum in an ornate old theatre in downtown Birmingham. Mitt Romney, whom Mr Gingrich has relentlessly deri
经济学人327:开启黑人牧师时代
WHEN Fred Luter, the pastor of a large congregation in a flood-damaged section of New Orleans, assumes the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) at its annual meeting in June, it will not be the usual passing of the baton for Americas l
经济学人328:回归野性
IN A quiet spot in eastern Montana, on rolling golden prairies and under vast skies, 71 buffalo calves charge out of a corral. Kicking up dust as they run, they quickly join a herd of several hundred American buffalo of all ages. The calves had arriv
经济学人329:加州税收——一塌糊涂
THOMAS HOBBES famously described the original state of nature as bellum omnium contra omnes. Californias governor, Jerry Brown, who received a Jesuit education and likes to flaunt his classical learning, has of late been using the phrase to describe
经济学人330:选民身份认定——不再继续
VOTERS in Texas have had three electoral excitements lately. The first was that in February, after a series of rejections, federal judges in San Antonio finally approved a new map for the states congressional districts, meaning that Texas could final
