经济学人346:萨拉托加市的制造业(1)
AMERICAS wealthy, lured by the mineral springs, flocked to Saratoga during the 19th century. Gilded-Age figures such as J.P. Morgan, the financier, summered there. The race course, which opened in 1863, became a huge draw. Even James Bond placed a fl
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The nearby University of Albanys College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), the first college in the world dedicated to nanotechnology, is doing much the same. A decade ago Alain Kaloyeros, who runs it, set up a partnership with industry an
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OAKSTERDAM university, a self-proclaimed cannabis college in Oakland, California, has been called everything from the Princeton of Pot to the Harvard of Hemp. Its founder, Richard Lee, has become the public face of the movement to legitimise marijuan
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But then, last year, the administration issued the Cole memo (these things are named after the deputy attorneys-general who draft them). It seemed, in dense verbiage, to suggest that the Ogden memo had been misunderstood, and that federal prosecutors
经济学人350:持枪的纯爷们(1)
TAKE a sticker, urges the woman from Ambush Firearms. We are giving away two free guns every day to people wearing them. What your correspondent would do with an semi-automatic rifle, let alone one that also comes in pink, was not obvious. Welcome to
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The NRA also claims to be a potent force in elections; it says it defeated 19 of the 24 congressmen who were on its hit-list back in 1994. But a recent article in American Prospect disputes such assertions, arguing that the NRAs impact is marginal th
经济学人352:废除死刑(1)
CAPITAL punishment has been meted out in Connecticut since colonial times, when convicted witches were sentenced to death. In recent years it has been used sparingly . Of the 4,686 murders committed between 1973 and 2007, only 66 led to convictions o
经济学人353:废除死刑(2)
Connecticut will be the 17th state to abolish the death penalty and the fifth to do so in the past five years. Nor is it likely to be the last: other states are reconsidering capital punishment. Repeal bills have been proposed in a number of states,
经济学人354:自然科学教育——猴子歌舞伎
DOES a bill that does nothing actually do something? This is not a Zen koan, but a legislative one, being tested this month in Tennessee. The bill in question required the states education system to encourage students to explore scientific questions
经济学人355:移民政治学(1)
IT MAY have taken the Supreme Court just an hour to wrap up its discussion of illegal immigration this week, but Americas politicians, it seems, cannot get enough of the subject. It will be several months before the court rules on the case in questio
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Nonetheless Mr Romney cheerfully joined in the denunciation of Mr Perry for his breach of party doctrine. By the same token, when Newt Gingrich, another candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, suggested that illegal immigrants of good c
经济学人357:奥林-哈奇——茶党前途未卜
THE political class first sat up and paid real attention to the tea-party movement two years ago, when its acolytes in Utah ended the career of Bob Bennett, a venerable Republican senator, by denying him the partys nomination for his re-election bid.
经济学人358:绝非易事(1)
LIKE most sins, tax breaks are easier to condemn than to resist. Politicians regularly decry the inefficiency and complexity that tax breaks introduce to the overall tax system, while merrily adding to the pile. Bill Clinton created the child tax cre
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Mr Romney can spare the bottom 40% any loss of income from reduced tax expenditures relatively easily. Whereas that group gets the lions share of refundable tax credits such as those for children, for earned income and for university expenditures, th
经济学人360:早期音乐运动之父古斯塔夫.莱昂哈特
Obituary 讣告 Gustav Leonhardt 古斯塔夫莱昂哈特 Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichordist and father of the early-music movement, died on January 16th, aged 83. 羽管键琴家，早期音乐运动之父古斯塔夫.莱昂哈特于1月16日去世，享
