THE SWEET PERFUME wafting over northern Iraq does not come from the wildflowers that speckle its rumpled plains in spring. It is the smell of oil and it is everywhere, flaring at wellheads, sloshing from the tanker trucks that grind up potholed roads to backyard refineries in the Kurdish hills and fumi...
2013-07-22
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2013-07-20
Managers who rely too much on their strengths may become hammers that see every problem as a nail. Over-forceful bosses can turn their subordinates into patsies; consensus-obsessed bosses can institutionalise dithering. It is not difficult to find examples of strengths-turned-weaknesses in politic...
2013-07-20
Glinting greenly from the corners of the Beatles' album covers is an apple. With its shiny, acid-coloured skin, it is recognisable as a Granny Smith. Once popular enough to have a Pantone paint colour named after them, today they are declining. Britons are eating other varieties—if they are eating a...
2013-07-18
乘坐“德国铁路”(Deutsche Bahn,德国的国有铁路公司)的旅行者已习惯听到一种德语中掺杂大量英语词汇的奇怪语言,例如“Neue Snackbox für Kids(注:New snack box for kids)”.但铁路老板们认定这种逐渐养成的德式英语太过泛滥了.于是他们向员工印刷了一份词汇表,里边的2200个...
2013-07-18