1. 国会将批准追加数十亿美元的刺激资金，但不会冠以“刺激”之名，也不会真正创造什么就业机会。国会将联合两党成立一个削减赤字的委员会，但同样发挥不了什么作用。既然美国国债还有投资者买，国会为什么要改弦更张？

2. Ohsumi’s research on autophagy shines a light on ubiquitous diseases such as Parkinson’s and diabetes.

3. 特斯拉：为了缓解外界对特斯拉电动汽车充电时间问题的诟病，特斯拉开始推出一个通过换电池快速充电的充电站网络。CEO埃隆o马斯克肯定希望自己的运气比夏伊o阿加西的Better Place公司好一些，这家公司在2013年破产前做的就是电池更换充电站业务。

4. The world's first flying bicycle flew on November 9, 1961, when Derek Pigott of the University of Southampton flew in a bicycle with an airplane-like body. It was called the Southampton University Man Powered Aircraft (sumpac). Derek furiously pedaled the air-bike to get it off the ground. It then flew 1.8 meters (about 6 ft) above the ground over a distance of 64 meters (210 ft). While the flight was short and slow, it still does not change the fact that it was the first bicycle to fly and at the same time, the first human-powered flight.

5. 通常冷静的分析师们早已习惯了汽车行业的缓慢增长，但是遇到特斯拉，他们就丢掉了一贯的谨慎。德意志银行（Deutsche Bank）的分析师罗德o拉切给该股设定了310美元的目标价格。无独有偶，摩根士丹利（Morgan Stanley）的分析师亚当o乔纳斯也将特斯拉的目标股价定为320美元，并称它是“世界上最重要的汽车公司”。

6. 2. Marc Faber's Doomsday warning on Bernanke's disastrous QE scheme

应用

1. 1.Mitsubishi. Brand love: -12% / Rank: 360

2. 还是说回TextPride吧。雷和欧布莱恩发现，用户很喜欢各种品牌授权的表情符号，他们相信广告主肯定希望非常便捷地通过一家供应商来进入多种短信应用。但他们也明白，这充其量只能占到这项业务的一半份额。对运动队这类大名鼎鼎的品牌来说，用户是愿意为这些贴纸埋单的。但那些不知名的品牌就需要自己掏钱来挤进这个圈子了。

3. Their inclusion has come at the expense mainly of European companies, signalling the shift in economic power towards the east. There is only one Indian brand in the top 100 ranking — HDFC Bank. Russian, Mexican and Brazilian brands have fallen out of the ranking in the past few years — a sober reflection of the changing fortunes of these emerging markets.

4. In China, WeChat has also lured more high-end users, a group that Tencent hasn't traditionally had a strong hold over.

5. In 2011, at age 15, D'Aloisio closed a seed round of funding from Li Ka-shing. A year later, Summly launched, and within a month it had attracted 500,000 users and became the number-one news app in 28 countries. The Yahoo! sale capped off a remarkable run for someone not yet out of high school. But it's not mere technological savvy that sets D'Aloisio apart. Since long before he could shave, he has been driven by an intense curiosity and a desire to make some sort of mark on the tech world. Not just to create but to build and, yes, to monetize.

6. Here, a quick peek at Power Women 2013:

旧版特色

1. 《经济学人智库》发布了2016年世界生活成本报告，根据各种产品和服务的成本对各国进行了排名。

2. 赢家：湖人

3. 1. Beyoncé “Beyoncé” (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia) An ambush that landed after last year’s tabulations, Beyoncé's tour de force — a lustrous showcase of soulful dominion, sleek production, sensual abandon and feminist agency, not always in that order — kept its relevance during a long year swollen with distractions. The singing, like the attitude, is phenomenally assured yet full of nuance; the message is complicated but clear. It’s high-wire pop that refuses to pander.