Revue de presse ANGLAIS Semaine du 07 au 13 mai 2012

Revue de presse ANGLAIS
Semaine du 07 au 13 mai 2012
Time – May 7, 2012
Briefing
Seasoning Tax (By Alice Park) : Will marking up sugar and
salt make us healthier?
World
Crossing a Red Line (By Hannah Beech) : The fall of
China's Bo Xilai is a sordid tale of money, death and how
power corrupts.
The culture
The Hero Whisperer (By Lev Grossman) : Hollywood's
iconoclast takes on The Avengers.
The Economist – 12-18 May 2012
United States
The 9/11 trial – Justice delayed : A farcical start to a
lengthy process.
Gay marriage – Ponctuated equilibrium : Barack Obama
makes up his mind on gay marriage.
Buisness
Drugmakers and antibiotics : The path of least resistance
: Governments reckon that drug firms’ research efforts
need a shot in the arm.
The Americas
Central America’s gangs - A meeting of the maras :
Precarious truces between gangs have lowered the
murder rate in two of the world’s most violent countries
—but for how long?
Newsweek – May 7, 2012
Family
When love is not enough (by Michelle Cottle) : The
special-needs population is growing. Government funding
is shrinking. The coming crisis for millions of parents.
The Guardian Weekly – 11-17 May
2012
Inside Guardian Weekly
Inside the 11 May edition : 8 May 2012: Europe's austerity
backlash; Obama's campaign kick-off; browsing through
the Tehran book fair.
World News – Iran
Censorship, courtship and crowds at the world's largest
book fair (By Saeed Kamali Dehghan) : Tehran
International Book Fair launches crackdown on 'harmful'
titles. Annual event that attracts 500,000 visitors a day
has revoked licences of publishing houses and banned
them from attending.
World News – Bangladesh
Clean-up in the ship graveyard (By John Vidal) : EU
demands reform of Bangladesh's lucrative but hazardous
breakers' docks.Bangladeshi workers risk lives in
shipbreaking yards. EU safety rules for recycling yards
could save hundreds from injury and poisoning but pose
dangers for south Asian economies.
Life & style - Cooking
Jamie Oliver: how a celebrity chef became food
revolutionary (By Tim Adams) : The British TV chef is on
a global mission to tackle child obesity. Tim Adams finds
out how a dyslexic boy from Essex realised the
transformative power of good food.
Business – Gold
All that glisters is not sold (By Emma John) : Gold rush:
what happened to bling? It may be more desirable than
ever, but gold is so expensive that more of us are selling
jewellery rather than buying it. Emma John goes on the
trail of the precious metal and discovers who's getting
their fingers on it.
Financial Times Weekend Edition – New Scientist – 12 May 2012
May 12/13, 2012
House and Home
Monopoly and the real property game (By Ed Hammond) :
The 100-year-old diversion has almost no resonance with
today’s housing market.
Courrier International – n°1123 –
Du 10 au 16 mai 2012
This Week – Genetics
The humanity switch: How one gene made us brainier
(By Sara Reardon) : A single gene may have helped the
evolution of our complex brains 2. 5 million years ago, as
we were splitting from australopithecines.
Etats-Unis
A La Nouvelle-Orléans, la jungle impose sa loi (by
Nathaniel Rich) : Six ans après le passage de l'ouragan
Katrina, le quartier du Lower Ninth Ward est devenu une
friche. Ses habitants se battent pied à pied contre la
végétation luxuriante. (The New York Times Magazine,
New York)
Technologie
Cybernétique – De l'énergie « à sang pour sang » (By
Lucas Laursen) : Des chercheurs tentent d'extraire de
l'éelctricité du sang. Avec, pour applications, des
prothèses autoalimentées... et des escargots espions.
(Ieee Spectrum, New York)
Tendance
Rock around the paquebot (by Joe Levy) : Partir en
croisière avec son groupe favori pour trois jours de
concerts non-stop ? La formule fait de plus en plus
d'adeptes chez les fans et les musiciens aux Etats-Unis.
De la soul au heavy metal, en passant par le rock
indépendant, il y en a pour tous les goûts. (The New York
Times, New York)
Littérature
De belles histoires pour conjurer la crise (by Elizabeth
Day) : Le romancier irlandais Roddy Doyle anime depuis
2009 à Dublin des ateliers d'écriture destinés aux jeunes
de milieu défavorisé. Aujourd'hui menacé de fermeture,
ce projet a reçu le soutien de grands écrivains comme
Salman Rushdie et Russell Banks. (The Observer, Londres)
Opinion – Social life
Love machine: Engineering lifelong romance (By Julian
Savulescu and Anders Sandberg) : With break-up and
divorce a major part of modern life, it looks like we may
be outliving our inborn capacity to love. But there could
be a way to outwit evolution and make love last !
Features – Body odour
The personal perfumery (By Mairi Macleod) : Is the
perfume industry looking for fragrances in the wrong
place ? The molst seductive scents might come from
ourselves.