영자신문 28

슈퍼맨! 미국교육을 구해주세요; 이코노미스트 해설

Education in America Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s an important attempt to get the American public behind education reform Sep 30th 2010 *"It's A Bird... It's A Plane... It's Superman" is a musical with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, with a book by David Newman and Robert Benton. It is based on the comic book character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster a..

페이스북 그리고 자유: 이코노미스트 해설

Facebook and freedom Sep 29th 2010, 19:41 by M.S. MY COLLEAGUE disagrees with Malcolm Gladwell's argument that electronic social networking doesn't do much to empower oppositional political movements. "On social networks," my colleague writes, 내 동료는 전자 소셜 네트워킹이 정치적 저항운동에 그다지 큰 역할을 하지 않는다는 말콤 글래드웰의 주장에 동의하지 않는다. “소셜 네트워크에 관해서”, 네 동료는 이렇게 쓴다. anyone and everyone becomes a producer of content, and ..

정부검열을 구글검색한다: 뉴욕타임즈 해설

Editorial Googling the Censors Published: September 28, 2010 In most repressive countries, government censors like to toil in the shadows, maintaining a cover of deniability as they block citizens’ access to information. It is gratifying to see that the Internet and Google are making their job tougher. 대부분의 억압적인 국가에서 정부의 검열관들은 국민들의 정보접근을 차단하고 그 사실을 부인할 수 있는 엄호수단을 유지한 체 음지에서 일하는 것을 좋아한다. 인터넷과 구글이..

우주의 이해-창조의 순서: 이코노미스트 해설

Understanding the universe Order of creation Even Stephen Hawking doesn't quite manage to explain why we are here Sep 9th 2010 Here comes the sun IN 1988, Stephen Hawking, a British cosmologist, ended his best-selling book, “A Brief History of Time”, on a cliff hanger. If we find a physical theory that explains everything, he wrote—suggesting that this happy day was not too far off—“then we woul..

계란공장: 뉴욕타임즈 해설

Editorial Notebook Egg Factory By VERLYN KLINKENBORG Published: August 28, 2010 On Friday, most of the country’s major newspapers, including The Times, featured reports from a small town called Clarion, Iowa. Just outside Clarion are the egg operations, owned by the DeCoster family, at the heart of the salmonella outbreak. The factory — no point calling it a farm — called Wright County Egg, is t..

시민권과 출산관광: 이코노미스트 해설

Citizenship and birth tourism Amending the amendment A challenge to an American birthright Aug 19th 2010 Born in the USA PROMINENT Republicans have begun questioning America’s hallowed principle of birthright citizenship. The policy, established after the civil war by the 14th amendment to the constitution, is seen as one of the party’s greatest feats. Yet in July Lindsey Graham, a moderate Repu..

유학생 유치로 분주한 영국의 대학: 이코노미스트 해설

Britain's universities and foreign students Hustling spires A psychological leap is needed—both in British academia and in Westminster Aug 5th 2010 *Hustling spires ; The City Of Dreaming Spires 꿈꾸는 첨탑의 도시(영국의 옥스포드를 상징)에서 dreaming spires를 hustling spires로 바꿔 표현한 것임. EMO OF FRIESLAND was Oxford’s first recorded foreign student, and since 1190 they have kept pouring in. Both sides have benefited: ..

웹서핑에 사로잡히면 우울증에 걸리기 쉽다: 타임TIME 해설

Study: Obsessive Web Surfers Are More Depressed By Alice Park Monday, Aug. 02, 2010 Mika / Corbis Spending hours on the Internet may trigger depression, say researchers from Australia and China. Numerous studies have documented the link between mental illness and pathological Internet use, though the majority have found that excessive online behavior tends to occur as a result of conditions such..

왔노라, 싸웠노라, 이라크에서 철수 하노라: 이코노미스트 해설

I came, I saw, I withdrew from Iraq Aug 2nd 2010, 16:42 by Lexington IN A big speech today Barack Obama said that American combat operations in Iraq will end as promised at the end of this month, by when he will have brought home more than 90,000 troops since taking office. This is not likely to do the Democrats much good in the mid-term elections, since the war in Afghanistan has meantime grown..

북한의 울화통: 뉴욕타임즈 The New York Times 사설 해설

Editorial North Korea’s Latest Tantrum Published: July 23, 2010 North Korea is threatening a “physical response” to joint American-South Korean naval exercises scheduled to begin on Sunday off the Korean Peninsula. China, which has abetted its neighbor’s excesses for too long, needs to ensure that the North’s bluster is only bluster. And it needs to tone down its own. 북한은 한반도 해상에서 일요일로 예정된 한미연합 ..