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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Luigi Mangione and the Making of a Modern Antihero The support for the alleged shooter is rooted in an American tradition of exalting the outlaw. 正文：He is from a wealthy and prominent Maryland family, the valedictorian of a prestigious private school, an Ivy League graduate. His family and friends speak of him fondly, and they worried abou...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Jimmy Carter, a one-term president who became a globe-trotting elder statesman, dies at 100. 正文：Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer who vowed to restore morality and truth to politics after an era of White House scandal and who redefined post-presidential service, died Sunday at the age of 100. Carter had been in home ho...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Nearly all 181 on plane that crashed in South Korea presumed dead, fire agency says 正文：All but two of the 181 people who were aboard a Jeju Air flight are presumed dead after the plane crashed while landing at an airport near South Korea’s southern tip Sunday morning, fire authorities said, in what appears to be the nation’s deadliest avia...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Can Lego remain the world’s coolest toymaker? And get greener too? 正文：The Venus de Milo; “Mona Lisa”; 250 skulls on a mirrored wall; a six-metre Tyrannosaurus rex. You can see all this and more at “The Art of the Brick”, a touring exhibition currently in Berlin. It is the work of Nathan Sawaya, a former lawyer. His chosen medium? Lego bric...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Inside the world of crazy rich Indians The new wealthy elites are younger and more adventurous than the old lot 正文：All of India was transfixed , as February turned to March, by the spec tacle of Anant Ambani’s pre-wedding celebrations in Jamnagar, an unlovely industrial town in western India. Mr Ambani is the son of Mukesh Ambani, India’s...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Trump and the power of Mar-a-Lago The former property developer well understands how buildings and spaces can be used effectively as propaganda 正文：Who is currently in charge in the US? Jill Biden? Kamala Harris? President-on-paper Joe Biden? Or is it in fact president-elect Donald Trump? Many signs point to Trump, not least the undeniable...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Elon Musk’s X Endgame The world’s richest man has become a new kind of oligarch. 正文：After months of negotiation, Congress was close to passing a spending bill on Wednesday to avert a government shutdown. Elon Musk decided he had other ideas. He railed against the bill in more than 150 separate posts on X, complaining about the raises it wo...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Ten reasons to be cheerful about 2024 正文：Welcome back. In keeping with the Christmas season, I’m rounding off this year as in 2023 by picking out 10 bright spots that shone out in our troubled times. Last December, my list for 2023 included events such as Poland’s parliamentary election result, the award of the Nobel Peace prize to Iranian...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:3-Minute Christmas Market Rampage Shakes Germany 正文：It took an attacker just three minutes to kill five people and wound hundreds by ramming an S.U.V. into a crowded holiday market on Friday night, stunning Germany and shattering the peace of its Christmas season. 知识点：rampage n./ˈræmpeɪdʒ/ a sudden period of wild and violent behaviour,...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift Can Resolve U.S. -China Relations 正文：I just spent a week in Beijing and Shanghai and let me get right to the point: While we were sleeping China took a great leap forward in high-tech manufacturing of everything. If no one has told Donald Trump, then I will: His nickname on Chinese social media today is “Chua...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Donald Trump 2024 TIME Person of the Year 正文：Mar-a-Lago was quiet three days before Thanksgiving. Donald Trump’s Moorish palace seemed all but deserted late that morning, the seaside estate’s cavernous living room traversed intermittently by a junior staffer or silent aide. Totems to Trump were displayed everywhere. Framed magazines with h...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The rights and wrongs of assisted dying Britain’s next great social reform is coming. Here’s how it should work 正文：Britain has become a much more li beral country in recent decades. In 1981 only 12% of Britons thought that homosexua lity was justifi the propor able, according to the World Values Survey; in 2022 the figure was 66%. Over the...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:A Weary Biden Heads for the Exit 正文： It was a long day in Angola. President Biden had already visited a port facility bracketed with cranes and toured a factory filled with conveyor belts. So by the time he sat down at a large wooden circular table in a warm, stuffy room with African leaders, he put his head in his hand and briefly closed...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Masa Son is promising a massive investment in Trump’s America. Don’t hold your breath 正文：Another day, another enigmatic billionaire turning up at Mar-a-Lago to pump up the Donald Trump brand as the president-elect prepares to return to the White House 知识点：enigmatic adj./ˌenɪɡˈmætɪk/ Someone or something that is enigmatic is mysterious...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Silicon Valley Heads to Mar-a-ago The tech industry’s Trump taboo is quickly becoming a distant memory. 正文：The days of tech CEOs tussling with Donald Trump are fading. After distancing themselves from Trump during his first administration—and publicly rebuking him after the events of January 6, 2021—many Silicon Valley leaders are now taki...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Elon Musk is Donald Trump’s disrupter-in-chief The entrepreneur will be let loose on America’s government 正文：In 2017 Elon Musk branded Donald Trump a “con man” and “one of the world’s best bullshitters”. Now he is known at Mar-a-Lago as Uncle Elon and is in the president-elect’s inner circle. This week they watched a rocket launch together...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:South Korea’s president is impeached Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law destroyed his presidency. For the country the reckoning has just begun 正文：The day of reckoning has arrived for Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s president. The country’s National Assembly voted on December 14th to impeach him for his short-lived attempt to impose ma...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Climbing Everest is the extreme sport du jour More people are reaching the summit, but more people are dying on the way, too 正文：Climbing mount Everest used to be a feat of staggering bravery,endurance and skill. In the 40 years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the summit in 1953, an average of 12 people a year foll...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:What would get China’s consumers spending? Clues from a grocer in a fourth tier city 正文：On a regular Tuesday morning, a large crowd has gathered outside a grocery store in Xuchang, a city of 4m people. Visit Pangdonglai at the weekend and things are even busier. Thousands, some having travelled hundreds of kilometres, arrive before dawn to...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Nvidia’s profit smorgasbord attracts an ant invasion China’s antitrust authorities aren’t the only ones eyeing the chipmaker’s hold over the market 正文：Is it worse to be disliked or ignored? Nvidia is too big for the latter, so the former will have to do. The chipmaker that dominates the market for artificial intelligence hardware is in the...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Murder at Dawn: A Top Executive’s Final Moments in Manhattan 正文：UnitedHealth Group’s annual investor day began much like any other corporate event. There was breakfast and then around 8 a.m. Wednesday the collection of investors, executives and Wall Street analysts filed into a capacious third-floor ballroom at the Hilton hotel in Midtown...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The Most Hyped Bot Since ChatGPT Remember Sora? 正文：For more than two years, every new AI announcement has lived in the shadow of ChatGPT. No model from any company has eclipsed or matched that initial fever. But perhaps the closest any firm has come to replicating the buzz was this past February, when OpenAI first teased its video-generati...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Bashar al-Assad, an Ophthalmologist Who Became a Dictator, Is the Last of a Despotic Dynasty 正文：Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. That job was meant for his older brother, Basil, who trained as a military commander while Bashar studied to be an ophthalmologist. He wasn’t expected to be the last of the line for his family’s...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:America’s gambling boom should be celebrated, not feared The gambling frenzy is mostly about people being free to enjoy themselves 正文：A craze for betting is sweeping over America. This year Americans are on track to wager nearly $150bn on sports, having bet a paltry $7bn in 2018. Another $80bn is being wagered in online casinos; in the few...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Behind the Brain Rot Oxford’s controversial Word of the Year captures how chronically online life has become. 正文：The image is black-and-white, lending it an air of “historical artifact”: A modern-day Donald Trump standing next to Elvis Presley. The president-elect posted the picture on Truth Social last night. Presley is strumming a guitar...