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2007-10-05
Bush and health care-Children in the balance - [hot issues]
Oct 4th 2007 | AUSTIN
From Economist.com
Why did George Bush veto a popular health-care bill?GEORGE BUSH has some fight left in him and he has chosen a thankless battle. On Wednesday October 3rd the president vetoed legislation that would have reauthorised and expanded the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which provi... -
2007-10-01
America and Iran-The limits of free expression - [hot issues]
Sep 27th 2007 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
A rough ride for Iran's presidentNEW YORK is used to the drama (and the traffic) created by visiting dignitaries. But Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, caused more stir than most. He started by asking whether he could lay a wreath at Ground Zero as a show of respect. &l... -
2007-08-25
US:America's creaking infrastructure-A bridge too far gone - [hot issues]
Aug 9th 2007 | LOS ANGELES AND MINNEAPOLIS
From The Economist print edition
The spotlight turns to deficiencies everyone would rather ignore WHETHER driven by grief or curiosity, local people in Minneapolis still congregate on the banks of the Mississippi River to see their collapsed bridge. It is a monumentally stra... -
2007-08-25
UK:Bagehot-Carnival queen - [hot issues]
Aug 23rd 2007
From The Economist print edition
A decade after her death, Princess Diana's legacy is not the one that might have been expected IN 1712, aged two, Samuel Johnson was brought to London by his mother. Almost blind and ill with scrofula, he was taken to St James's Palace to be “touched” by Qu... -
2007-04-20
Questions film-makers must ask themselves after Virginia Tech - [hot issues]
By Gerald Kaufman original
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2007-04-20
The Virginia Tech massacre-In the university of death - [hot issues]
Apr 19th 2007 | BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA
From The Economist print edition
The horror might have happened anyway. But gun control might have made it less easy“YOU caused me to do this.” That was Cho Seung-hui's excuse for murdering 32 people. Police found an essay in the young student's room that appeared to blam... -
2007-04-20
Gun laws in Texas-Standing their ground - [hot issues]
Apr 19th 2007 | AUSTIN
From The Economist print edition
A man's office is his castle. And his car, tooON TUESDAY afternoon, as news about the Virginia Tech murders filtered out, the staff of a hamburger restaurant in downtown Austin gathered in front of a television suspended over the bar. A boyish-looking waiter speculated that if the gunman had ... -
2007-04-20
网络日志将改变你的生活 - [hot issues]
星期一上午9:30 现在是开诚布公地讨论这个话题的时候了。而且绝不能拖延。当然，我们完全明白，你们中的多数人对网络日志（blogs, 简称网志）深恶痛绝。对于互联网上浩如烟海的网络日志，你们甚至连听都不愿听。不可否认，有许多网志的内容令人不快。例如，自恋、仇恨的政治学（politics of hate）以及部分追逐名利的网志，而且后者的疯狂程度丝毫不亚于电视节目《杰瑞·斯普林格秀》（The Jerry Springer Show，Fox台曾有的谈话节目，主持人叫杰瑞·斯普林格，其内容多涉及同性恋、第三者等主题。他往往把当事人请到现场，制造冲突，同时让另外一方当事人先躲在幕后，关键时刻再冲出来，有时候几方当事人会在现场大打出手——译注）中排队等待打架的当事人。只要是你能在当今社会中看到的病态... -
2007-04-20
是什么在iPod耳边嘀铃铃作响？ - [hot issues]
迄今为止，Verizon公司的V Cast服务是该公司所发起的最猛烈的一次争夺音乐迷的行动 不对，这不是史蒂夫·乔布斯的噩梦。至少目前还不是。但是，当Verizon无线公司于2006年1月5日推出期盼已久的音乐下载服务后，这家手机服务供应商让美国消费者看到了一个可以与苹果电脑公司大名鼎鼎的iPod和iTunes组合一较高下的强劲对手。
Verizon公司在拉斯韦加斯举办的国际消费电子大会上揭开了新推出的V Cast音乐服务的面纱，凭借这一服务，Verizon公司的4900万顾客可以通过无线网络或者计算机轻松购买到近100万首歌... -
2007-04-20
Vista的真正价值 - [hot issues]
微软新一代Windows操作系统将让你充分享用数字媒体 当Vista操作系统最终于1月29日上架销售时，大多数消费者还不清楚他们究竟为什么应该购买Vista。先别去理会微软董事长比尔•盖茨此前在纽约诺基亚剧场发布新一代Windows操作系统时对它发表的礼赞，也别去管这家软件巨头为了推广该操作系统而计划从现在起到今年6月所要花费的上亿资金。尽管Vista拥有诸多新特点，但微软似乎无法把注意力真正集中到棘手的问题上，而这些问题能够切实改变消费者使用个人计算机的方式。 这倒不是说Vista没有进步。我们只要回过头想一想，5年前当Windows X... -
2007-04-20
After the Virginia Tech massacre-America's tragedy - [hot issues]
Apr 19th 2007
From The Economist print edition
Its politicians are still running away from a debate about gunsIN THE aftermath of the massacre at Virginia Tech university on April 16th, as the nation mourned a fresh springtime crop of young lives cut short by a psychopath's bullets, President George Bush and those vying for... -
2007-03-30
上海离全球国际金融中心还有多远 - [hot issues]
发表日期：2007年3月1日 出处：国际金融报 -
2007-03-30
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2007-03-24
North Korea-Show us the money - [hot issues]
Mar 22nd 2007 | BEIJING
From The Economist print edition
North Korea walks out of talks on its nuclear programme
“A HEADACHE and a hard-to-understand group.” Thus South Korea’s foreign minister, Song Min-soon, on the topic of North Korea’s delegation to six-country talks that resumed in Beiji... -
2007-03-17
Campaigning on the internet-Of slips and video clips - [hot issues]
Mar 15th 2007 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
Candidates for 2008 are racing to master a new medium
DURING the presidential campaign of 1800, partisans harnessed high-speed technology to spread their message. Like today, that message was often scurrilous. Unlike today, the technology they harnessed needed real harnesses. When Th... -
2007-03-17
Taiwan-Ma on the charge - [hot issues]
Feb 15th 2007 | TAIPEI
From The Economist print edition
Indicted? Run for president
ATTACK can be the best form of defence, in politics if not the law. On February 12th Ma Ying-jeou, chairman of Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), was officially charged with corruption. The same day, he declared ... -
2007-03-17
Beijing's Olympic frenzy-Inflated by the Olympic spirit - [hot issues]
Mar 1st 2007 | BEIJING
From The Economist print edition
An Olympics-fuelled boom is not all good news—and is especially hard on those looking for somewhere to live in China's capital -
2007-03-17
Taiwan-Cultural revolution - [hot issues]
Mar 15th 2007 | TAIPEI
From The Economist print edition
The fight over a dictator's legacy
CHIANG KAI-SHEK may once have been revered as a near-god on Taiwan, where he led his Chinese Nationali... -
2007-03-17
Democracy in China-Hong Kong's make-believe election - [hot issues]
Mar 15th 2007 | HONG KONG
From The Economist print edition
Nobody doubts that Donald Tsang will be returned as chief executive. But China is under pressure to allow a more open contest next time -
2007-03-17
Security in Asia-We're just good friends, honest - [hot issues]
Mar 15th 2007 | BEIJING AND TOKYO
From The Economist print edition
But China has reason to suspect Japan's military flirtation with AustraliaBut China has reason to suspect Japan's military flirtation with Australia -
2007-03-17
Inside al-Qaeda's brain? - [hot issues]
Terrorism
Inside al-Qaeda's brain?Mar 15th 2007 | NEW YORK
From Economist.com
An al-Qaeda bigwig admits to many wicked deedsTHE image of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that is best known to the world is of him looking bedraggled and confused, cranky and unkempt in a white t-shirt shortly after his capture in Pakistan in 2003. But... -
2007-03-17
Black shadows - [hot issues]
Corporate scandals
Black shadowsMar 15th 2007 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
Conrad Black's trial beginsTRIALS of the century have become an annual event in the business world, thanks to America’s wave of corporate scandals. But the trial of Conrad Black, which began in Chicago on Wednesday Mar... -
2007-03-17
Reaching out over the Pacific - [hot issues]
Mar 16th 2007
From the Economist Intelligence Unit ViewsWire
China worries as Japan and Australia sign a security deal
Australia and Japan signed a joint declaration on security co-operation on March 13th, upgrading the two countries' security relationship to match their burgeoning economic ties. Although the pact falls well short of a military allian... -
2007-02-25
Deadly Panda brings down millions of computers - [hot issues]
The virus has more than 100 mutants which threaten local area networks By Wu Chong
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2007-02-23
正方反方:博客该不该实行实名制? - [hot issues]
来源：新华网
【背景提示】10月19日，中国互联网协会一名负责人承认他们正在研究博客实名制的方案，由此引发网民的激烈辩论。最近几天来，互联网上还盛传有关“中国博客实名制已成定局”的消息。中国互联网协会秘书长黄澄清２３日说，中国信息产业部门目前尚未正式出台有关“网络博客实名制”管理的政策规定。但这位秘书长同时称，对网络博客进行实名制管理... -
2007-02-23
正方反方:教授富豪 - [hot issues]
网上流传教授富豪排行榜 竟成学生考研依据
2007年1月，某点评老师的网站上发布了“中国教授富豪排行榜”。此榜一出，迅速在各大论坛上转贴发布，众多网友纷纷热议，对教授富豪的现象褒贬不一，各有看法。
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2007-02-23
A contested mantle--A new tug of war - [hot issues]
Feb 22nd 2007
From The Economist print edition
Let him go, he's oursTO WHOM does William Wilberforce—the best-known figure in the British campaign to end slavery—belong... -
2007-02-23
Russia and America--Not a cold war, but a cold tiff - [hot issues]
Feb 15th 2007 | MOSCOW
From The Economist print edition
Vladimir Putin's recent diatribe against America reflects the deeply resentful attitude the former superpower has towards the remaining one... -
2007-02-23
Britain and Iraq--You surge, we’re off - [hot issues]
Feb 21st 2007
From Economist.com
Tony Blair sketches out Britain's exit from IraqIT CAME as little surprise. On Wednesday February 21st Britain’s prime minister, Tony Blair, made his ...
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