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标题：Hyrox, the fitness craze that runs and runs

A gruelling mix of running and strength-training has people working up a sweat

正文：Inside Strawberry Arena, a cavernous stadium in Stockholm, thousands of chiselled men and women are puffing and slick with sweat. A few are the colour of the fruit. And little wonder: they have run a kilometre, covered the same distance on a ski-training machine, then run again. Between laps of the stadium they have also rowed, lunged, done burpees, carried kettlebells, pushed and pulled a sled and lobbed a medicine ball. A respectable race time is about 90 minutes; the fittest...

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标题：Shein shares slide in Hong Kong debut on worries about trade and regulatory risks

正文：Shares in online fast-fashion retailer Shein fell 8% in their first day of Hong Kong trade on Tuesday, with investors worried about setbacks that long delayed its listing and undermined its competitive advantages. The stock fell as much as 10% despite only 6.6% of the company being floated. Shein raised about $1.7 billion in the IPO, which valued the company at around $26.5 billion — far below its 2022 peak of nearly $100 billion.

知识点：retailer n. /ˈriːteɪlə(r)/
· 英文释义：a person or business that sells goods directly to consumers
· 中文释义：零售商
· 文中意：在线快时尚零售商Shein，直接面向消费者销售商品...

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标题：Venezuela vowed not to ‘hand over’ its oil. Trump aims to grab a windfall.

The deal cements the United States’long-term dominance over Venezuela, which has become a neo-colony since the U.S. military’s capture of then President Nicolás Maduro in January.

正文：As Nicolás Maduro’s vice president in Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez once accused her political rival of planning to hand over the country’s riches — its vast oil reserves — to the United States. “They are her owners,” Rodriguez said in 2024 of María Corina Machado, then the U.S.-backed opposition leader. “Her master gives her orders to do what? To hand ov...

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标题：Make the U.N. Great Again: The Uphill Struggle Facing the Next Secretary General

正文：It may be both the most prestigious and the most frustrating job in international diplomacy: members of the United Nations are weighing who should succeed António Guterres as Secretary-General when he completes his final term in December. The timing couldn’t be more critical, with U.N.’s fortunes at a historically low ebb. With major powers repeatedly blocking the U.N. from intervening in crises and the U.S. rolling back funding, some predict that whoever succeeds Guterres will simply have to do “less with less” and manage a proce...

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标题：A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic

正文：A federal judge has blocked the Pentagon’s attempt to blacklist Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind Claude, ruling that the T administration’s actions were unlawful. US District Judge Rita Lin overturned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to designate Anthropic a national-security “supply-chain risk”, a label that threatened its work with the Pentagon and other government contractors.The ruling marked a striking victory for a company that, only months earlier, had been one of the US military’s important AI partners.

知识点：overturn v. /ˌəʊvəˈtɜːn/
· 英文释义：to reverse a decisio...

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标题：Can Trump actually change Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’? Here’s what to know

正文：Amid a growing trade war with one of the United States’ closest allies,President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to rename Lake Ontario to 
“Lake America,” needling Canada further after trade talks collapsed.Trump’s executive order marks the president’s latest attempt to use rebranding as an assertion of power — after signing an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico on his first day back in office. Trump has wide latitude over how the US government refers to geographic landmarks, but he can’t force other countries to follow suit.

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标题：Glacier collapse may have triggered deadly Nepal flash flood, experts say

正文：A deadly flash flood near the Nepal-China border may have been triggered when part of a glacier collapsed high in the Himalayas, experts said, after satellite images showed a dramatic change in the landscape. The disaster struck on Wednesday in Nepal’s Rasuwa district and China’s Tibet region, killing people,destroying infrastructure and leaving hundreds missing on both sides of the border. The incident has drawn attention to the growing risks facing communities beneath the Himalayas.

知识点：landscape n. /ˈlændskeɪp/
· 英文释义：the visible features of an area of land, including its ph...

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标题：As his presidency flounders, Donald Trump is more dangerous than ever

Forget lame ducks. America’s president will defend his dominance like an ageing silverback gorilla

正文：Is Donald Trump becoming a lame duck? As his troubles multiply at home and abroad, the prospect of dealing with a hobbled American president is enough to make foes and friends swoon with relief.

知识点：multiply /ˈmʌltɪplaɪ/ v.
英文释义：multiply means to increase greatly in number or amount 本义为数学
上的"相乘"，新闻评论语境核心义为"（问题、麻烦）成倍增加、迅速增多"（本文特指：特朗普在国内与国外同时堆积的各类麻烦——国会掣肘、市场反应、伊朗局势——正在快速累加，构成"跛脚鸭"猜测的现实基础）核心搭配：problems multiply、complaints multiply、multiply rapidly、multiply by ten、risks multiply
・Complaints multiplied within hours of the app's botched update. 那次失败的应用更新之后，投诉在几小时内成倍涌来。
・As the audit dragged on, questions about the firm's accounting multiplied. 随着审计一再拖延，关于这家公司账务的疑问越来越多。

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标题：In China, people brave simulated typhoons to prepare for the real thing

正文：Huang Zhen, 34, shut his café for a day to be buffeted by surging waters and powerful winds that knocked him off his feet — training for extreme weather increasingly afflicting China. Huang was one of a dozen people attending a session at the Lvxing Disaster Simulation Training Center in Hangzhou. For 1,599 yuan ($235) per day, the centre offers a realistic experience of being caught in a typhoon or flash flood, with participants wearing wetsuits and helmets under the guidance of safety instructors.

知识点：be buffeted by  phrase. /bi ˈbʌfɪtɪd baɪ/
· 英文释义：to be...

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标题：Trump's economic challenge: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel

正文：Almost two years since Donald Trump won election pledging to slash prices and fix the US’s public finances, his Iran war and tax cuts have delivered a different outcome: record-high debt, soaring fuel costs and punishing mortgage rates. Investors pushed yields on long-term US debt to a 19-year high amid alarm at the weight of public borrowing and the war’s inflationary fallout.Trump’s Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, rushed to soothe markets, unveiling a programme to “at least double” purchases of long-term debt and plans to tackle the deficit.

知识点：pledge to v. phr. /pledʒ tuː...

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标题：Carney Stands Up to Trump in Trade War Despite the Risks

Canada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly.

正文：On Friday night, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada did something that few other world leaders before him have dared to do. After days of intense trade negotiations with the United States, with less than an hour to go on a midnight deadline for a new round of tariffs from the Trump administration, Mr. Carney instructed his negotiators to w...

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标题：China's plan to dominate global food supply chains

正文：China is about to do to the global supply chains for grains, livestock and food products what it has already done to the world’s energy and transport systems. The country is pursuing what amounts to world dominance in the mass manufacture of protein, launching a breakneck plan to end its strategic dependence on food imports and insure its people against the long-term famine risks of climate change.

知识点：livestock n. /ˈlaɪvstɒk/
· 英文释义：animals kept on a farm for economic purposes, such as cattle, sheep,pigs
· 中文释义：牲畜，家畜
· 文中意：泛指农场中饲养的经济型动物，涵盖牛、羊、猪等
· 例句一：The dro...

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标题：Could AIs become conscious?

Even if they don't, they might be treated as such—to humanity's great cost

正文：Most people believe humans are different. The reason is that Homo sapiens has evolved to be conscious. Many animals feel pain and pleasure; some appear to be self-aware. But the human mind‘s unique potential to exhibit a sense of self marks out every member of the species for special treatment.

知识点：【evolve】 /ɪˈvɒlv/ v.
英文释义：evolve means to develop gradually over a long period of time, especially through a natural process
本义为"（慢慢地）展开、演进"（e-出+ volv卷，卷轴慢慢展开），进化生物学语境核
心义为"进化、演化"（本文特指：智人通过漫长的自然选择过程演化出了...

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标题：How US military funding propelled China's robot dogs

正文：China’s Unitree Robotics – among the world’s biggest producers of humanoid and quadruped robots – based designs for its most successful robot dogs on innovations funded by the U.S. military, according to researchers involved in the project. Unitree’s $1,600 Go2 model, launched in 2023, helped the company rapidly dominate the global quadruped robot market. These robots draw on breakthroughs in quadruped movement financed by the U.S. DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL).

知识点：humanoid n. /ˈhjuːmənɔɪd/
· 英文释义：a robot or being that resembles a human in appearance or movement
· 中文释义：人形机器人；类人生物
· 文中意：人形机器人（外形和动作模仿人类的机...

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标题：Japan’s Gen X workers are struggling

The “ice-age” generation has been cursed several times over

正文：For nearly two decades Torigoe Atsushi, who is 50, has worked in the stockrooms of a fashion firm in Tokyo. His income rose only modestly, and it recently fell after his employer cut bonuses and reworked its pay scheme; he now earns about ¥3.6m ($22,600) a year. Then he spotted the firm’s recruitment ads, offering newcomers higher salaries. “It’s great that younger people are getting better pay,” he says. “But why not raise mine?”

知识点：【decade】 /ˈdekeɪd/ n. 英文释义：decade (n.) means a period of ten years 本义为"十年（...

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标题：Would you buy a Chinese supercar?

The Denza Z is BYD’s take on an electric sportscar. Technically it’s excellent, but does it have the romance to lure buyers from marques like Porsche and Ferrari?

正文：If there was any doubt that Chinese manufacturers were serious about their world domination of the car market, the Denza Z will mark a new chapter from a UK perspective. When thinking of Chinese cars in the UK, the immediate image is of keenly priced family cars that challenge established brands in terms of value for money. But brands from China are now increasingly looking to d...

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标题：The Cutthroat Wearables Battle Is About More Than Tracking Your Fitness

Google, Apple, Samsung and upstarts like Oura are racing to integrate data from their wearable devices into the health care system.

正文：The year is 2035. You, like most people you know, have a small, button sized device implanted in your forearm. For a recurring fee, it continuously monitors your blood pressure, core temperature, cardiovascular activity and all other health measures a physician would value. Anything suspicious is promptly flagged to your doctor by a personalized A.I. system. Disease and illness is caught — and treated — as early as possible.

知识点：imp...

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标题：China is winning the race for the Ice Silk Road

Melting in the Arctic is unleashing a geopolitical tussle over new trade routes

正文：Last month, global sea temperatures reached a record high for July. This is an ominous sign for climate change, which is contributing to maritime heatwaves across the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean. But, like it or not, it also presents commercial opportunities. As Arctic ice melts, new shipping lanes in the High North have opened. They promise to radically decrease the time and energy it takes to transport commercial goods from the Atlantic to the Pacific. These new commerce pat...

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标题：'I shot Mr Thompson': Luigi Mangione describes his planning and the killing of health insurance CEO

正文：When Luigi Mangione stepped into a Manhattan federal courtroom shortly after 11am on Friday, his demeanor was less debonair than at other recent court proceedings. The 28-year-old, wearing tan jail scrubs instead of natty menswear, walked with hands behind his back and ankles shackled en route to the defense table. This morning’s proceeding would mark a dramatic twist in Mangione’s legal saga. Mangione, who faces federal and state cases in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s 4 December 2024 killing, had long maintained a not-guilty stance.
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标题：Mark Zuckerberg’s Convenient Truth

The Meta CEO has a new message now that his company is losing the AI race.

正文：At this stage in the AI race, if one of your chatbots hasn’t escaped the lab and run amok, people start to wonder whether you’re even serious. Last month, OpenAI and then Anthropic disclosed that their models had hacked other companies’ systems during internal testing. When Meta confirmed last week that one of its bots had also gone rogue, the news barely registered as an aftershock.

知识点：stage /steɪdʒ/ n. 英文释义：stage (n.) means a particular point or period in a proc...

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标题：Hotel prices in Europe surge before historic solar eclipse

正文：The UK and Europe have enjoyed their most dramatic solar eclipse for nearly 30 years, with millions thought to have witnessed the once-in-a-generation event. Those watching the astronomical phenomenon from the UK were treated to a partial eclipse, which peaked shortly after 19:00 BST, when most saw more than 90% of the Sun covered by the Moon. But parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain experienced the complete darkness and spectacle of a total eclipse.

知识点：witness v. /ˈwɪtnəs/
英文释义：to see something happen, especially an important event
中文释义：目睹，见证
文中意：指人们亲眼目睹了这次日食奇观
例句一：The past decade has w...

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标题：A Little Bit of Shopping, All the Time

Why it’s so exhausting to buy stuff now

正文：For several months, I had been on the hunt for new T-shirts. I vaguely had a vision of what they should look like: not so different from my current T-shirts, except in some way elevated and, more urgent, free of stains or holes. Perhaps they could come in interesting colors? Ideally, they would not be made in sweatshops. There were many, many shirts that seemed to meet these criteria—and with a few clicks, they could be delivered to my doorstep, maybe even by tomorrow. An...

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标题：Chinas biggest travel site grapples with watchdog's reservations

正文：Just as Chinese travellers were checking into hotels and boarding planes for summer holidays booked through Trip.com, the country’s biggest online travel agent received some painful news. The State Administration for Market Regulation imposed Rmb5.18bn ($770mn) in penalties on the US- and HK listed company, saying a six-month antitrust investigation had found it abused its market dominance. The SAMR punishment was less severe than many investors had expected, but it laid bare the extent of the grip on China’s vast travel industry of a company that handled more than Rmb1tn worth of onlin...

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标题：How China became the world's great oil power

Forget OPEC. The Chinese now calls the shots

正文：THE IRAN war has caused the largest supply shock in petroleum history.Yet even when fighting was most intense, oil prices never reached the $150 a barrel many analysts had predicted. Soon after Iranian munitions made the Strait of Hormuz unpassable, trapping 14m barrels a day (b/d) of crude inside the Gulf, petro-monarchs in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh directed an extra 5m b/d through pipes bypassing the conduit. Ministers in Washington and Tokyo released a record 2m b/d of emergency stocks.

知识点：munition n. /m...

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标题：A Lost Civilization Is Baffling Experts and Rewriting China’s Origin Story

The otherworldly beasts and enigmatic masks of Sanxingdui still enthrall China,decades after unearthing of ceremonial pits

正文：In July 1986, workers at a brick factory in southwestern China were digging for clay when they hit upon something unexpected: dozens of dazzling pieces of jade. The chance discovery led to one of the greatest archaeological finds in modern history—one that continues to thrill China with its ornate gold masks, towering humanoid figures, intricate 12-foot tall bronze “sacred trees,” sculptures of fantastical beasts and hundreds of elephant tusks.

知识点：dig for...

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标题：Thailand school shooting: eight killed including suspected attacker,police say

正文： A Thai teenager killed his grandparents before opening fire at his school, where he shot five people dead and took his own life, police have said,in an attack that has shaken a country struggling to deal with gun violence. The 14-year-old wounded more than 30 people in the shooting at the prestigious Debsirin Nonthaburi school northwest of Bangkok. Nine people were in a critical condition, the Thai health department said.

知识点：open fire v. phr. /ˈəʊpən ˈfaɪə(r)/
· 英文释义：to start shooting a weapon
· 中文释义：开火，开枪
· 文中意：开始射击
· 例句一：The soldiers were ordered not t...

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标题：The Once-Shameless President Is Deeply Embarrassed

As Donald Trump faces one humiliation after another, he is attacking those he blames.

正文： One of President Trump’s superpowers is his shamelessness. Most of the time, he demonstrates a singular ability to shrug off—or flat-out lie about—scandals or missteps that would have caused another politician’s career to self-immolate. Get caught on an Access Hollywood video boasting about abusing women? That’s just locker-room talk! Grow insecure about crowd size? The photo must be doctored! Mistakenly suggest that Alabama was in the path of a hurricane? Someone get a Sharpie and a map! Trump has long bee...

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标题：How the Climate Crisis Is Becoming a Financial Stability Risk

正文：Warnings about ecological collapse once came mainly from environmental groups and independent researchers. Now they are coming from central banks. The European Central Bank (ECB) has warned that the destruction of nature and the escalation of extreme weather pose growing risks to the global financial system. Frank Elderson, a member of the ECB’s executive board, said the ECB is stepping up its monitoring of the financial risks linked to the loss of ecosystem services—natural processes such as clean water, stable rainfall, and functioning river systems that underpin economic activity. “Th...

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标题：A Trojan Horse Is Supposed to Have Humans Inside It

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is full of contradictions about deceit and violence.

正文：If you go to Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, you may be able to purchase, for a mere $69.99, a plastic receptacle shaped as a Trojan horse. The horse is used in the film as an image of moral decline. But the repurposing of a sinister instrument of war into a popcorn container hints at the malleability of the conceit: A Trojan horse contains unexpected multitudes.

知识点：mere（形容词）/mɪr/
本义：仅仅的、只不过是的；用于强调数量、程度之小，暗含轻蔑或强调反差之意
核心搭配：a mere + 数词/名词、for a mere sum
• He solved the problem in a mere five minutes.
他仅用五分钟就解决了这个问题。
• The startup was valued at a mere fraction...

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标题：How China gets better bang for its buck than America in AI

Its investment lags far behind America's. Its models do not

正文：How much money should companies lavish on artificial intelligence?American tech giants think the answer is: a lot. Their capital spending on data centres may surpass $740bn this year. Investors, who used to agree, are having second thoughts. When on July 26th it emerged that Nvidia was in talks to underwrite a gargantuan $500bn-plus data-centre project, stuffed full of its chips and run by OpenAI, its share price tumbled. Days earlier investors blanched when Alphabet said it would bo...

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标题：Trump’s Literal Gilded Age

Taxpayers are now enabling the president’s decades-long love of gold.

正文：When you approach the freshly gilded twin statues near the Lincoln Memorial, there is no mistaking that they are gold. Very, very gold. Distractingly gold—or, more precisely, covered in 23.75-karat gold leaf costing $5.1 million. The 19-foot statues, called The Arts of War, were once easy to miss but now look a bit like oversized children’s trophies, especially next to the classical and austere Lincoln Memorial. Seeing them is as if, on the walk between Arlington National Cemetery and the National Mall, you’d...

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标题：Is This What Comes After AI Slop?

Daggermouth could be the first best-selling novel partly written by a chatbot.

正文：Most self-published authors can only dream of writing something as popular as Daggermouth. Set in a surveillance state ruled by a masked elite,the novel traces the unlikely romance between the president’s son and an assassin hired to kill him. Since H. M. Wolfe uploaded Daggermouth to Amazon as a Kindle ebook, it has been a viral hit. “Did I finish Daggermouth,or did Daggermouth finish me?” a TikTok book influencer gushed. In February, Simon & Schuster paid seven figures to secure t...

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标题：A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies

It is also angering the rest of Europe

正文：For several days a stream of migrants swam from Morocco into Spanish territory. Then on July 30th and into the early hours of the next day, the stream turned to an uncontrollable flood. In all, Spanish officials think more than 50,000 entered Ceuta, a small Spanish enclave on the North African coast,which has a permanent population of just 84,000. Overwhelmed, Spanish police waved them through and even offered water and sandwiches to some of them.

知识点：a stream of n.
a continuous flow of people or things 一连串，络绎不绝的（人流或事...

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标题：‘My life’s screwed’: Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts

Millions suffer ‘unprecedented’ losses after Samsung and SK Hynix stock tumbles

正文：Song Mi-kyung pocketed a profit of about Won300mn ($200,000) earlier this year as South Korea’s stock market surged on the AI boom. The 60 year-old Seoul resident has now found out the hard way that stocks can go down as well as up after a wild week on the Kospi. Her portfolio now shows a paper loss of more than 60 per cent as the index heads for a record monthly loss, down nearly 40 per cent from its June peak.

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标题：Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger’ to public safety

Research shows AI accounts are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice

正文：Misleading health claims online pose a “huge danger to public safety”, experts have warned, after research has shown that AI-generated doctors are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice. The British Medical Association council deputy chair, Dr Emma Runswick, flagged the risks posed by AI accounts that “peddle medical myths and promote so-called miracle cures”. “Platforms like TikTok must do more to stop the rise of dangerous fake medical advice … otherwise, it is the public...

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标题：Asia's Tourist Hot Spots Are Missing a Staple: Europeans

Soaring airfares and disruptions to Middle Eastern travel hubs are keeping many travelers away from destinations in Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia.

正文：Khon Mony normally shuttles at least four groups of tourists on his tuk tuk to the ancient stone spires of Angkor Wat in Cambodia each week. But in all of May, he did not get a single customer. He blames the war raging more than 3,000 miles away in the Middle East. Since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February, airfares have soared — doubled on some routes — and...

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标题：Narendra Modi caves to India's Gen Z

Protesters oust the education minister and promise to go home

正文：In India, where politicians rarely bow to public pressure, Gen Z has forced a government to back down. On July 25th student protesters won the resignation of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, achieving the movement’s core demand. Just a month earlier he had dismissed them as a “b-team of disruptive elements”. But in a social-media statement, the close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was stepping down so students could “devote their time to studies and focus on building their careers”.

知识点：bow t...

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标题：Why traditional career advice is failing Gen Z

Don't follow your dreams. Try this instead

正文：Leaving the cosy confines of college for the tundra of the job market has always been bracing. Not every graduate hears a calling to a particular profession. Many want to do good but also need to pay off debt. AI is making the transition even bumpier, automating entry-level jobs and threatening entire careers. On July 13th more than 200 economists and tech luminaries warned that AI could cause “large-scale job displacement”.Finding your life’s work has never been so hard.

知识点：cosy adj. /ˈkəʊzi/
comfortable, wa...

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标题：The geopolitics of air conditioning

Heatwaves are making access to AC a political problem around the world

正文：On a sun-baked morning in early July, with temperatures set to soar above 40°C (104°F), a mob in Nanterre, a Paris suburb, heaved against the doors of a Lidl supermarket until they collapsed. The sweat-stained hooligans were desperate shoppers, pitted against each other for the last portable air-conditioning (AC) unit. French politicians had a row of their own, over how much AC was too much. As extreme heat breaks tempers and electricity grids, fights over AC—or the energy that powers cooling tech—are threatening t...

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标题：In a first, two Chinese scholars win the 'Nobel Prize of mathematics' - and China is thrilled

正文：For the first time, two Chinese nationals have been awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics achievement – a win hailed across China as a milestone in the country’s bid to cement its role as a science and technology powerhouse.

知识点：national n. /ˈnæʃənəl/
a citizen of a particular country 国民；公民
• The embassy worked around the clock to evacuate its nationals from the conflict zone. 大使馆夜以继日地撤离冲突地区的本国国民。
• Several Chinese nationals were among those recognized for their contributions to the international research project. 
数名中国公民因对这项国际研究项目的贡献而受到表彰。

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