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　　Can a Muslim woman be denied a job because of her headscarf?

　　穆斯林妇女就该因为头巾而遭遇求职被拒吗?

　　SAMANTHA ELAUF, a young Muslim woman, did well in her interview for a job at a children's branch of Abercrombie & Fitch, a casual-clothing store, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. But when the interviewer told a manager about Ms Elauf's black headscarf, she was instructed to lower the applicant's “appearance” score and deny her the job. According to the company's “look policy”, employees must align their dress with the “preppy look of the Ivy League” and must not wear “caps” or black clothing. In fact Abercrombie is best-known for the half-naked (but preppy) hunks that adorn its shopping bags.

　　萨曼莎·埃劳夫是一名穆斯林少女，曾在Abercrombie & Fitch休闲服装公司(位于奥克拉何马州吐桑市)的童装分公司面试中表现不错。然而，当面试者和经理谈起埃劳夫小姐的黑色头巾时，埃劳夫小姐的“形象分”便大打折扣，而且她的求职也被拒绝了。根据该公司的“外貌政策(look policy)”，雇员着装要求必须符合“常青藤学院派风格”，不能戴“帽子”，不能穿黑色衣服。事实上，A&F公司却是因印刷在购物袋上半裸(但具学院风)的大块头而闻名于世。

　　Ms Elauf turned to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which sued the store on her behalf. A federal district court in Oklahoma ruled that in refusing to hire Ms Elauf because of her religious practice, Abercrombie had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On appeal, the Tenth Circuit Court held for the company. If Ms Elauf wanted a religious accommodation, the appeals court said, she should have asked for it.

　　埃劳夫小姐向公平就业机会委员会(EEOC)求助，该委员会代表她起诉了A&F。奥克拉荷马州的联...

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　　Grocery shopping——Aisle be damned

　　超市大采购：该死的通道

　　For the best bargains, avoid shopping around for your groceries

　　欲求物美价廉货，货比三家要不得

　　THRIFTY shoppers do not have to look far to find a bargain. Offers abound in the cut-throat world of British supermarkets. Received wisdom suggests that people trying to save money on their groceries should shop around to get the best prices. But research presented on April 9that the Royal Economic Society suggests that those who do so end up paying more.

　　节俭的消费者们不需要寻觅很远就能买到便宜货。英国残酷的超市世界中其实充斥着很多这样的便宜货。一种广泛被接受的观点认为，想要在购物上省钱的人们就应该货比三家，这样才能找到最理想的价格。但是4月9日由皇家经济协会展出的研究指出，那些货比三家的人通常到最后反而花的更多。

　　Kun Tian, a researcher at Cardiff Business School, and Ji Yan of Durham University, the paper's authors, argue that people who buy all their groceries at just one of the big supermarkets(Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons) pay less than those who purchase equivalent goods at a mixture of the four of them. Data from Kantar World panel, a market-research firm, show similar trends. Unlike Mr. Tian's study, these cover total purchases rather than comparing equivalent baskets of goods. They show that people who bought groceries in just one store during the 12 weeks to September 2013 spent 631. Those who went to...

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　　Food politics in America——Popped

　　美国的食品政策：砰的出现

　　Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning). By Marion Nestle.

　　软饮料策略：对付软饮料(然后取得胜利)。作者马里昂·奈斯特。

　　MARION NESTLE'S heavyweight polemic against Coca—Cola and PepsiCo comes at an odd moment for the industry. Americans are drinking fewer sugary sodas—in 2012 production was23% below what it had been a decade earlier. Even sales of diet drinks are losing their fizz, as consumers question the merits of artificial sweeteners. From one angle, it would seem that health advocates such as Ms Nestle have won. Yet in America companies still produce 30gallons of regular (not diet) fizzy drinks per person per year. In many countries, particularly developing ones, consumption is on the rise.

　　软饮料工业正处不尴不尬之际，马里昂?奈斯特对口可口可乐以及百事可乐的抨击颇具影响力。越来越少的美国人选择饮用含糖碳酸饮料—与十年前相比，2012年含糖碳酸饮料的生产减少了23%。人们甚至也失去了对膳食饮料的青睐，因为消费者们对饮料中是否添加人工甜味剂提出了质疑。从某个角度来看，像奈斯特女士这样的健康倡导者似乎赢得了胜利。然而，美国软饮料公司每年生产的常规碳酸饮料(而非膳食饮料)人均多达30加仑。在许多国家，尤其是发展中国家，常规碳酸饮料的消费仍呈上涨趋势。

　　Ms Nestle, a professor at New York University, is both heartened by recent progress and dissatisfied with it. That is no surprise. Her first book, “Food Politics” (2002), remains a bible for those who bewail the power of food companies. In her new book she attacks the indust...

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　　Criminal justice in Japan——Forced to confess

　　日本的刑事司法：屈打成招

　　Suspects in Japanese police cells are far too vulnerable to abuse

　　日本监狱里的政治嫌犯极其脆弱，易受欺凌

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　　ON THE face of it Japan's system of criminal justice looks as if it gets a lot right. Crime rates are lower in Japan than almost anywhere else—the murder rate is less than a tenth of America's. Those arrested for minor wrongdoing are treated with exceptional leniency. Less than one in 20 Japanese deemed to have committed a penal offence go to prison, compared with one in three of those arrested in America, where the average jail term is much longer. In Japan the emphasis is on rehabilitation, especially of young offenders. The rates of recidivism are admirably low, partly because the state is adept at involving families in reforming those who stray.

　　日本的刑事司法体系表面看来是挺公正的。日本的犯罪率比大多数国家都要低得多——谋杀率连美国的十分之一都不到。那些由于轻微违法行为而入狱的人通常会得到特殊的宽大处理。犯了刑事罪的人中只有不到二十分之一的会进监狱，而这个比例在美国则是三分之一，且刑期也比日本长得多。日本注重的是对罪犯，尤其是对年轻罪犯的改造。惯犯的比例也是极其的低，部分原因在于日本在改造这些迷失自我的人时善于融入家庭的力量。

　　Yet the state's benign paternalism has a dark side. The chief reason the system looks good is that Japan is a remarkably safe society. And where once police worked closely with...

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　　Long-waited epic The Great Wall has finally hit screens in China. The action adventure was helmed by superstar Chinese director Zhang Yimou, backed by Chinese-owned Hollywood studio Legendary, with a cast featuring Chinese A-listers as well as Matt Damon, making it the most expensive film ever made in China.

　　影迷们期待已久的饕餮巨制《长城》终于在中国上映了。这部动作冒险片是由中国著名导演张艺谋执导，由华资好莱坞电影制片公司传奇影业投资拍摄的。这部电影众星云集，由中国一线明星和马特·达蒙主演，这也使其成为中国有史以来耗资最高的一部电影。

　　It won’t be remembered as Zhang’s best film, but the director’s artistic touch is on display in his long panoramic sweeps and artful use of color. Simultaneously futuristic and historic, the visual spectacle carries the film, while Zhang manages to include plenty of promised “Chinese elements”.

　　《长城》不会被视为张艺谋执导的最佳影片，但这部电影以长时间的全景扫描以及对颜色的巧妙运用呈现出张艺谋导演的艺术风格。同时，盛大的视觉场面使这部电影既富有科幻性，又具有历史意义，而张艺谋导演也在电影中巧妙地融入了许多他承诺过的“中国元素”。

　　By its end, The Great Wall leaves you with the feeling that it must be a metaphor – after all, the Taotie were, according to legend, brought down by their own greed – but hazy about what exactly the moral is. Is it a warning over rampant Chinese consumerism? A caution against marauding foreigners and invading foreign values? A reminder about the power of collectivism over individualism? Or is it really just a old romp between goodies and baddies?

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　　A zoo in eastern China’s Shandong province has admitted to keeping a wounded husky dog in a populated wolf den, arguing that the dog was “respected” by the wolves, though it was initially introduced to “create more fun” for tourists.

　　山东一家动物园承认将一只受伤的二哈放进一个狼群密集的圈舍内，辩称说这只二哈受到狼群们的“尊敬”--尽管最初的目的是想给游客们“找些乐子”。

　　Dezhou Zoo received public criticism when a tourist uploaded a video clip of the dog on Sina Weibo on Nov. 7. In the video, the crippled canine, resembling a Siberian husky or Alaskan malamute, could be seen with a number of wolves.

　　11月7日，一名游客上传了一份这只二哈的视频到新浪微博上，随后德州这家动物园就遭到了来自公众的批评。视频中这只狗的腿有点跛，看起来像一只哈士奇或者阿拉斯加犬，视频中还可以看到它和一些狼关在一起。

　　The tourist wrote in an accompanying post that the animal’s leg had been bitten, which is what caused its wound. The post soon attracted many eyes, and has received 8,000 reposts as of press time.

　　这名游客在后面一篇帖子中表示说，这只二哈是被狼咬受伤了。这篇帖子很快吸引了很多人的注意，截止发稿时转发量已经达到了8000多次。

　　More than a dozen wolves live in the den, and the dog appeared to be living peacefully among the wolves. According to a zookeeper, the animal is a husky-wolf hybrid. It could be considered either a dog or a wolf but experts’ appraisal would still be needed, local news portal Iqilu.com reported.

　　有十几头狼被关在这个圈舍里，而这只二哈似乎和狼群们都相安无事。据一名饲养员表示，这只狗是哈士奇和狼的串串。据当地媒体齐鲁网报道，这只动物既可以被当做一只狗，也可以被当做一只狼，但是仍然需要专家鉴定。

　　A zoo manager surnamed Xia told the ne...