She was closer to her audiences than any film star; she could feel them press round her, watch how they reacted, notice the women with their prams or the passing cyclists pausing to listen, see new lovers leaning on each other as they sang from a sco...
Yet though the disease is everywhere, it is discussed euphemistically. Newcomers are diagnosed as anaemic. As is still the case in the rich world, death is hidden. You hear nothing of them, or only by chance afterwards, Joachim says of patients who s...
Books arts 文艺版块 Home Entertainment 家庭娱乐栏目 Illness in literature 文学中的疾病 Climb every mountain 攀爬每一座山 A classic German saga of high-altitude sickness is oddly uplifting 一篇关于高原病的德国经典传奇...
When she first put a toe on the streets, in the mid-1930s, there were 30 others. It was a competitive business, but she could not cut her prices; at 20 francs a go, she needed to sell 100 scores at each performance just to pay the rent. Luckily she w...
And changing they are, for the extent of the Arctic sea ice in summer has declined by 30% in the past 30 years, and that loss is accelerating. 它们正在发生变化，因为在过去的30年里，北极海冰的面积在夏季减少了30%，而且减...
Yet corporate activism will amount to little if tech firms and their financiers do not change how they operate, says Sydney Sykes, co-founder of BLCK VC, a group on a mission to swell the ranks of black venture capitalists in America. Companies must...
Beyond the pandemic, American women face two problems that licensed midwives can help with. First, America is one of only 13 countries where the maternal mortality rate increased between 2000 and 2017, putting it in the august company of Venezuela an...
It is easy to over-analyse The Prisoner, and many fans have. A banner at a recent anti-lockdown march in London proclaimed (but garbled) Number 6s cry of defiance: I am not a number: I am a free man! According to Andrew Pixleys guide to the series, o...
There is lockdown. And then there is lockdown. 船只封锁。国家封锁。 Those who have spent the past weeks allowed out only to exercise and visit the shops 那些在过去几周只被允许出去锻炼和逛商店的人 might spare a thought f...
Lily Lian (ne Liliane Lebon), the last chanteuse on the streets of Paris, died on May 24th, aged 103 莉莉利昂（原名莉莉安勒邦）是巴黎最后一位街头女歌手，她于5月24日去世，享年103岁。 The first of May had a special...
