2009-08-07 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Poor nations to bear brunt as world warms
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The world¡¯s richest countries, which have contributed by far the most to the atmospheric changes linked to global warming, are already spending bill

2009-08-06 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

When the cure is not worth the cost
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Thanks to research by the National Institutes of Health and academic scientists during the last three decades, we now have proven treatments for depression

2009-08-05 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Federal reserve:Difference of opinion
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THE outcome was never in doubt. On December 12th America¡¯s central bank kept shortª²term interest rates unchanged at 5.25%. What mattered was the statem

2009-08-04 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

The world since September 11th
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IT STANDS to reason that 19 men cannot change history. But they did. Five years and two American-led wars later, the world created by the September 11th hijacke

2009-08-03 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Moment of truth
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No sooner did James McCarthy¡¯s name turn up in an Associated Press story on the outlook for global warming than he started getting outraged e-mails from colleagues. All that

2009-08-02 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Microsoft brings instant chat to TV screen, through games
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Microsoft planned to announce today that it will make its Windows Live Messenger service available on its Xbox 360 game consoles, bri

2009-08-01 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Limited resources
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It¡¯s been nearly a week since Canadian pet-food manufacturer Menu Foods Inc. recalled some 60 million cans and pouches of wet food linked to the deaths of at least 15 cats

2009-07-31 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

What do babies know?
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As Daniel Haworth is settled into a high chair and wheeled behind a black screen, a sudden look of worry furrows his 9-month-old brow. His dark blue eyes dart left and ri

2009-07-30 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Higher rates! Bigger fees!
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In recent weeks, you¡¯ve heard plenty about the sleazy side of the subprime mortgage business. Rising numbers of borrowers are losing their homes after being lured

2009-07-29 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Guilty plea in deadly Tennessee school shooting
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A 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty Tuesday in the killing of a high school official and the wounding of two others under a plea deal announce

2009-07-28 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Global warming
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On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change declared that the evidence of a warming trend is ¡°unequivocal,¡± and that human activity has ¡°ver

2009-07-27 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

English as language of global education
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In the shifting universe of global academia, English is becoming as commonplace as creeping ivy and mortarboards. In the last five years, the world¡¯s

2009-07-27 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Up close and edible:Green tea
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Green tea is one of the most popular beverages to hit the U.S. market in the last decade. Unlike black tea or oolong, green tea is made from unfermented tea leav

2009-07-27 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Áù¡¢ÌØÊâ½á¹¹1.While the leading actor on the stage captures our attention,we are aware of the importance of the supporting players and the scenery of the play itself.£¨1994ÄêµÚÈýƪ£©2.Discoveries in s

2009-07-24 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Ò»¡¢¸´ºÏ¾ä.When a new movement in art attains a certain fashion,it is advisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at,for,however farfetched and unreasonable their principles may seem today,it

2009-07-24 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Online booksellers face higher
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costs for shipping abroad
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THE Postal Service is taking the ¡°ship¡± out of shipping, and thousands of small online booksellers are bracing for troub

2009-07-23 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Pass the bacteria, please!
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Bacteria are terribly good for you. So say the promoters of a rapidly growing industry in ¡°probiotic¡± products. The title ¡°probiotic¡± (for life) is technically

2009-07-22 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

A robot in the kitchen
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Matt Mason has seen the future¡ªand it¡¯s fun. As director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our

2009-07-21 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Athens: Then & Now
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Imagine you are a citizen of Athens, enjoying a warm Mediterranean night in the Theater of Herodes Atticus. You are wearing jeans and a T-shirt, listening to a great concer

2009-07-20 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Economics focus:Rate of decline
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IN AMERICA retail banking is still a local business. Around 95% of the country¡¯s depositª²takers are ¡°community¡± banks, estimates those institutions¡¯ trade

2009-07-20 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

A Passover sermon, a play, and a century of the Melting pot
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The melting pot metaphor, touchstone of America¡¯s debate over immigration, was claimed by the rabbi of a New York City synagogue,

2009-07-20 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

SWIFTER, HIGHER, STRONGER
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Although Citius, altius, fortius (¡°Swifter, higher, stronger¡±) is the Latin motto of today¡¯s Olympic Games, athletes have been striving to improve their athletic

2009-07-17 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Affluence Happiness (and how to measure it)
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HAVING grown at an annual rate of 3.2% per head since 2000, the world economy is over half way towards notching up its best decade ever. If it keep

2009-07-16 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â

Brain cancer: Happy families, hidden dangers
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IT IS well known that many sorts of cancer run in families; in other words you get them (or, at least, a genetic predisposition towards them) from

2009-07-15 ËùÊôÀ¸Ä¿:ÔĶÁÀí½â