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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Starbucks Struggles to Find a New Identity in Cutthroat China 正文：When a group of private equity investors and Chinese technology companies were asked for ideas on how they would revive Starbucks Corp.’s fortunes in the world’s second-largest economy, the most common advice was: Be a lot more like the local competition that beat you. Starb...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Hearty quarterly results conceal a dual challenge for the burger behemoth 正文：The success of the Golden Arches rests on three simple, sturdy foundations: a menu of reliably decent grub, at a decent price, shored up by catchy marketing. Ever since it went public in 1965, McDonald’s has done best whenever it stuck to this original blueprint....

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The New ChatGPT Resets the AI Race 正文：1.Yesterday evening, Sam Altman shared an image of the Death Star on X. There was no caption on the picture, which showed the world-destroying Star Wars space station rising over an Earth-like planet, but his audience understood the context. In fewer than 24 hours, OpenAI would release an AI model int...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Up on the Roof, POTUS Surveys the Home He’s Making His Own White House reporters looked up from the driveway to see a familiar figure in a most unfamiliar location. 正文：POTUS was on the roof. As a confused group of reporters assembled below him on Tuesday morning, POTUS strolled around on top of the White House, stopping somewhere above th...

【欢迎订阅】    每天早上5:30，准时更新。    【阅读原文】    标题：Indian firms aim to gorge on weight-loss drugs  Domestic demand is surging. And Indian generics could make slimming cheaper worldwide  正文：Until recently, Indians had few safe ways of joining the global craze for weight-loss drugs. Some smuggled them into the country when returning home from...

【欢迎订阅】  每天早上5:30，准时更新。  【阅读原文】  标题：The Real Reason Why Students Are Using AI to Avoid Learning  正文：“I feel like I'm getting dumber.” The confession hung in the air between us, startling in its honesty. My sister—a college senior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and one of the most hard-working people I know—wasn’t joking. We were sitting at the...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Have humans passed peak brain power? Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning 正文：What is intelligence? This may sound like a straightforward question with a straightforward answer — the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “a capacity to understand” — but that...

【欢迎订阅】    每天早上5:30，准时更新。    【阅读原文】    标题：At the Tesla Diner, the Future Looks Mid  The new Los Angeles restaurant from the electric car giant is a smash burger and content machine, drawing Elon Musk’s fans and protesters.  正文：When Elon Musk announced that he was building the Tesla Diner in 2018, it was sold as a wholesome, America...

【欢迎订阅】    每天早上5:30，准时更新。    【阅读原文】    标题：China’s Small Workshops Are Hurting. Trump’s Tariffs Are Only One Reason.  The U.S.-Chinese cease-fire left exporters with crippling tariffs, worsening a slowdown for light industry factories caused by China’s shift to advanced  manufacturing.  正文：It was 96 degrees in the shade with hi...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：If women don’t want children, will cash fix it?   正文：1.To get a sense of China’s demographic problem, consider the generations of my family. My great-grandmother had nine children. My grandmother had three by the age of 27. My mother had only one by the same age. I’m now a few years older than that...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。    【阅读原文】   标题：The Tragedy Unfolding in Gaza  正文：If any place had experience seeing civilians through war, it was the Gaza Strip. It’s much of why the place exists. That stretch of Mediterranean coast was only even named while being demarcated as a refuge for Palestinians driven off their land by Jewish forces i...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：Americans Are Obsessed With Watching Short Video Dramas From China  How did steamy, short soap operas that originated in China become the hottest  thing in Hollywood, seemingly overnight?  正文：My partner recently confessed something to me about his screen-time habits: When he’s giggling at...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Americans Are Unhappier Than Ever.  Solo Dining May Be a Sign. 正文：The United States slipped to its lowest ranking ever in the World Happiness Report, in part  because more Americans are eating alone. Once again, the Finns came out on top. 知识点 ：Solo n./adj./adv./ˈsəʊləʊ/ Having or doing something alone; a performance by o...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：It would be so much easier if we said what we thought 正文：On a recent morning commute on the London Tube, the train ground to a halt and a disembodied voice told us all to get off. Being British we trooped on to the crowded platform and waited silently, the only indication of annoyance being a few people tutting and looking at their watche...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：First Came Tea. Then Came the Male Rage.  The app was meant to make dating safer for women. Data breaches exposing its users show why it was so popular in the first place.  正文：Until last Thursday, the team behind the app Tea Dating Advice was having an extraordinary week. They claimed to have...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：Kraft Heinz is not the only food giant in trouble  正文：When Warren Buffett, a venerable investor, and 3G Capital, a private-equity firm, merged Kraft and Heinz in 2015 to create a packaged-food heavyweight, consumers’ appetite for its colourful condiments, sugary snacks and processed cheeses seemed...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：China’s Problem With Competition: There’s Too Much of It  正文：1.It’s the circle of life in China’s business world  2.A promising technology or product emerges. Chinese manufacturers, by the dozens or  sometimes the hundreds, storm into that nascent sector. They ramp up production and drive...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。    【阅读原文】   标题：Money, Lust and Kung Fu: Shaolin’s ‘C.E.O. Monk’ Is Under Fire  正文：Incense drifting through ancient cedars. Saffron-robed monks, limbs a blur of movement, making quick work of imagined enemies. The boing of a giant bronze bell calling the faithful to prayer. This is the scene at the fabled Shaolin...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。    【阅读原文】   标题：Meta Unveils Wristband for Controlling Computers With Hand Gestures  When you write your name in the air, you can see the letters appear on your smartphone.  正文：The prototype looks like a giant rectangular wristwatch. But it doesn’t tell the time: It lets you control a computer from across th...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet 副标题：Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light - years away, is inhabited, or even habitable. 正文：The search for life beyond Earth has led scientists to explore many suggestive mysteries, from plumes of methane on Mars to clou...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Can Young People Afford to Not Go to College? Piggy bank with graduation cap 正文：Is college really worth it? It’s a fair question, especially when directed at university presidents like me. Rising tuition, the crushing burden of student loans, and the inauspicious job offers some students receive upon graduation prompt the question, for goo...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：Monks behaving badly: the sex scandal rocking Thailand’s Buddhist clergy  Stories of monks behaving badly are not uncommon in Thailand, but the scale of a recent scandal has sparked questions about wealth and privilege  正文：The disappearance of a respected monk from his Buddhist temple in centr...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。    【阅读原文】   标题：Mental health: Time for T If their reputation can be improved, hormones could be mental health drugs,too  正文：POOR MENTAL health is a scourge. Prescriptions for anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medicines have soared in rich countries in recent decades. Yet they do not work for everyone. Perhaps a...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：‘Who Killed Love?’ A Video Game Plays to Male Resentment in China.  正文：1.A deliveryman falls for a female livestreamer. She seduces him, drains his savings, then vanishes. Heartbroken, he reinvents himself as a successful businessman seeking revenge on women like her.  2.This is the plot of Re...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题：Coldplay, a Viral Kiss Cam Moment—and a CEO’s Abrupt Resignation  Schadenfreude played no small part in turning a video of two Astronome executives caught in a romantic moment into an online obsession  正文：Astronomer CEO Andy Byron is far from the only executive to step down after questionable...