2020-12-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周国际要闻Politics
政治Britain began the world’s first vaccination programme for covid-19 using a fully tested vaccine. Thousands of people, mostly the ver

2020-12-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Big tech and antitrust
大型科技企业与反垄断Battle commences
战争打响A formidable alliance takes on Facebook. Investors don’t seem to care
一个强大的联盟与Face

2020-12-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ping An is also becoming better at the lucrative business of "cross-selling", or selling customers more products from other parts of the group, which increases income without incur

2020-12-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

But when on October 14th 1947 he was dropped in the Bell X-1, a rocket-powered experimental plane, from the bomb bay of a B-29, he had no idea what lay ahead. Fun, probably, as he

2020-12-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

With federal help, states and cities might move faster. One concern is regulation. The EPA last updated its Lead and Copper Rule, setting out how fast lead pipes should be replaced

2020-12-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Mechanic to hero 从技工到英雄General Charles (Chuck) Yeager, test pilot and the first to break the sound barrier, died on December 7th, aged 97 第一个突破声障的试飞员查尔斯·

2020-12-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A clutch of newish studies on the effects of lead exposure has helped. The hypothesis that lead damage to developing brains causes violence later in life is one of the great myster

2020-12-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ping An
平安Metamorphosis
变形计The world's most valuable insurer has transformed itself into a fintech super-app. Could others follow its lead?
这家全球最具价值的保险公司已

2020-12-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块Water
水With the lead piping
使用铅水管Millions of Americans still get their drinking water from lead pipes
数百万美国人仍然通过铅水管获得饮用水Over a cen

2020-12-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

ExxonMobil wrote down $20bn-worth of assets in natural gas. The energy company was the world’s biggest by market capitalisation seven years ago. It has yet to report a profit this

2020-12-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周国际要闻Business
经济Salesforce agreed to buy Slack for $27.7bn, combining its range of business software with a chat platform tailored to companies. Unit

2020-12-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Instead, he beat him in politics, with words rather than fists. As things turned out, the contrasting styles of his predecessors may have made Mr Biden’s deeply prosaic register a

2020-12-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Crucially, unlike a Saturn V, every part of which except the capsule containing the crew was thrown away during the course of a mission, a Starship will be fully recyclable, with b

2020-12-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In 1994 he blamed his personal coach for giving him a power drink full of American chemicals. As for his hobnobbing with the Camorra crime syndicate at Napoli, he considered them p

2020-12-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺板块Johnson
约翰逊专栏Average Joe
普通人乔·拜登The president-elect lacks a silver tongue and makes for poor TV. That may be an asset
这位当选总统没有流利的口

2020-12-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Space flight
宇宙飞行Tally ho!
呔嗬！The Starship SN8 is ready for lift off
星际飞船SN8已准备好起航If all goes well, Elon Musk's plan to conquer the universe will soon take

2020-12-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

What really fuelled him, though, was anger, bronca, fury tinged with resentment. Life in Villa Fiorito, in a struggling family of ten in a tiny corrugated-iron house on a bone-crus

2020-12-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Eventually, DARPA plans to pit teams of two planes against each other, each team being controlled jointly by a human and an AI. Many air forces hope that, one day, a single human p

2020-12-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Despite its advantages, a remote workforce, or one consisting of more outsiders, brings challenges for managers, as the third report demonstrates. The CMI surveyed 2,300 managers a

2020-12-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Bartleby
巴托比专栏Managing by Zooming around
无处不在的Zoom远程管理The pandemic is forcing executives to work harder
新冠大流行迫使高管们更加努力地工作Busine

2020-12-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week 本周国际要闻Politics 政治Britain became the first country to license a fully tested vaccine for COVID-19. The medicines regulator gave its approval to the Pfize

2020-12-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Bobi Wine suspended his presidential campaign in Uganda after members of his staff were injured when security forces fired rubber bullets at one of his rallies. In November at leas

2020-12-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

There are several reasons why music royalties seem attractive at the moment. Mr Martini believes investors are drawn in by a rate of return that is insulated from macroeconomic tre

2020-12-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

But now even people in the most pro- Republican areas appear to be getting skittish, too. In the week before Thanksgiving attendance at South Dakotan recreationand- retail was 8% l

2020-12-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Music rights 音乐版权Tuning in 收听The market for song royalties is a hit for investors 歌曲版税市场对投资者来说是个大热门Ben stennis is a country-music songwriter from Nashville w