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Heavyweight metal
举足轻重的金属（陈继龙 编译）
Jun 29th 2006
From The Economist print edition
FIRST it was metals, now it is the companies that mine them. In May prices for copper, nickel and other metals rose to record levels, although they have since fallen a bit. Now three mining firms are proposing the most ex

TEXT 43
Shrinking wireless
微缩无线（陈继龙 编译）
Jun 29th 2006
From The Economist print edition
THE miniaturisation of the components of computer chips has proved unstoppable. In each new generation, those components are smaller and more tightly packed than they were in its predecessor. （1）Progress has been so rapid t

TEXT 42
Little love lost
爱意难寻（陈继龙 编译）
Jun 29th 2006 | PARIS
From The Economist print edition
“THIS is a marriage of reason,” said Joseph Kinsch, chairman of Arcelor, when he presented the proposed merger of the Luxembourg-based steelmaker and Mittal Steel to the press on June 26th. It was certainly not love a

TEXT 41
The bane of Italy
祸起意大利（陈继龙 编译）
Jun 29th 2006
From The Economist print edition
ALEXANDER STILLE'S new book on Silvio Berlusconi, theflamboyant[1]former Italian prime minister, is neither ab________①nor a work of investigative journalism. Its realvalueis that it represents the first

TEXT 40
Selling the sage of Qufu
推销孔圣人（陈继龙 编译）
Jul 6th 2006 | TOKYO
From The Economist print edition
THE old man would surely be proud. This week some 300 representatives, from 35 different countries, gathered in Beijing's Great Hall of the People for the first-ever Confucius Institute conference. （1）This was

TEXT 39
Come to sunny Colombia
到阳光明媚的哥伦比亚来吧！（陈继龙 编译）
Jun 29th 2006 | CIUDAD PERDIDA, COLOMBIA
From The Economist print edition
MENTION Colombia, and most people think of cocaine, kidnappings and guerrilla violence.（1）These have served to keep all but the most danger-loving tourists away for decades.But un

TEXT 38
A stilted story
踩高跷的故事（陈继龙 编译）
Jun 29th 2006
From The Economist print edition
IF THERE were a Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ants, Matthias Wittlinger of the University of Ulm, in Germany, would probably be top of its hate list. The reason is that Dr Wittlinger and hisc________①hav

TEXT 37
Brothers in arms
袍泽之情（陈继龙 编译）
Jun 29th 2006 | TORONTO
From The Economist print edition
RAY BLANCHARD, a researcher at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, was reviewing some data a few years ago when he noticed something odd: gay men seemed to have more older brothers than straight men.

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Ulterior motives
居心叵测（陈继龙 编译）
Jun 22nd 2006 | OTTAWA
From The Economist print edition
IN ONE of the more shameful episodes of its past, Canada imposed a hefty head tax_______①all Chinese immigrants in 1885, then banned their entry altogether from 1923 to 1947. For the 15,000 or so Chinese men who had come

TEXT 35Blogging off
走出博客（陈继龙 编译）
Jun 15th 2006 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
“I LOVE Microsoft and Microsoft did not lose me,” protested Robert Scoble, a little too loudly, on his blog last week, in a bid to end feverish speculation in the blogosphere about why, exactly, he had decided to leave Microso

TEXT 34
Bad news about bad guys
关于坏蛋的坏消息（陈继龙 编译）
Jun 15th 2006 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
AMERICANS worry about crime. In a big country with hyperactive media, any sensational horror is quickly broadcast from coast to coast,

TEXT 33
Busy signal
信号忙（陈继龙 编译）
Jun 8th 2006
From The Economist print edition
LONDON responded to terrorist attack on July 7th______①true Blitz style: rescuers were heroic, and ordinary citizens showed compassion and fortitude. （1）Or so the politically correct version goes.A report this week from the London A

TEXT 32
Deadly beauty
致命美景（陈继龙 编译）
Jun 8th 2006 | SAN FRANCISCO
From The Economist print edition
KEVIN HINES, a manic-depressive, was 19 and in one of his weekly downswings on ano_______①Monday morning in 2

TEXT 31
Time's mortuary
时代的殓房（陈继龙 编译）
Jun 1st 2006
From The Economist print edition
WHAT was the 20th century's most distinctive feature? It is a historians'parlor game[1],but there can be no definitive answer. For some, it would be getting men to the moon, discovering penicillin, splittin

TEXT 30
Klinsmann's castle
克林斯曼的去留（陈继龙 编译）
（译者按：“castle”一词乍一看是“城堡”的意思，但似乎与全文主旨并无多大关系。所以，需要注意“castle”另一个意思，那就是指国际象棋中的“车”，它可以顺着平行于棋盘边的路随便走多少方格,假如没有其它棋子阻挡的话，也可译为“rook”。而文章的中心思想恰好就是“改革遭遇阻力的克林斯曼何去何从”。另外，注意中国象棋中的“车”为“chariot”。）
Jun 8th 2006 | BERLIN
From The Economist print editi