2011-09-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The air was crisp and the music was loud in the vast plaza in front of the New York State office building in Harlem as health advocates and vendors set up information tables for Harlem Wellness Week.I

2011-09-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Cervical cancer is the second deadliest cancer - after breast cancer - among women in developing countries. Eight hundred women die of cervical cancer every day, nearly 300,000 each year worldwide. Ca

2011-09-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

20 years ago this month, NASA launched the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) . And now that bus-sized satellite is plunging toward Earth.Mark Matney, an orbital debris scientist at NASA's J

2011-09-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It's been nearly a century since the big band music of the Jazz Age was in full swing, but a nighttime visit to a nightclub in the Big Apple might have you fooled.On a recent Monday night at Sofia’s

2011-09-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Cyprus appears to be headed for a showdown with Turkey over Nicosia's oil and gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean. The drilling may harm the ongoing reunification talks.Relations between Tu

2011-09-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Refugees from this year's political crisis in Ivory Coast say it is not yet safe enough to return home. Ivory Coast's new national army and U.N. peacekeepers are increasing security along the border

2011-09-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

More than three thousand Ethiopian migrants – who risked their lives leaving the Horn of Africa – find themselves stranded in Yemen, near the Saudi Arabian border. The migrants want to return home,

2011-09-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This past April, there was a big volcanic eruption in America’s Pacific Northwest. If you missed it, you're not alone.It happened under the ocean off the northern Oregon coast. Since then, several r

2011-09-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Today every newspaper in the state of Arkansas is publishing a special section. There are no stories in it. No photographs. Not even any advertisements. Nothing but page after boring page of names and

2011-09-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

College students are back in class across America. But not all of their courses involve the rigor of, say, paleontology or advanced calculus.Every American college has what are called "gut” courses.

2011-09-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It’s estimated that every year nearly 360,000 women die from pregnancy-related causes. Most of the deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa. As the United Nations General Assembly opens a new session, it’s

2011-09-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Recent U.S. Census Bureau figures show that more than 46 million Americans now live in poverty. That’s the highest amount on record since the agency began tracking poverty rates in 1959. Additional

2011-09-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Eurozone finance ministers delayed Friday a decision on paying out the next batch of emergency loans to Greece, pending a review of the nation's finances. Greece had been scheduled to receive an $11-

2011-09-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Every year, about 1,000 scientists from around the world visit the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. The Institute is one of the oldest and largest facilities of its kind in the worl

2011-09-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama is continuing his appeal to Congress to pass his plan to boost hiring and the economy. The president plans to announce on Monday how he will pay for the plan and reduce the gov

2011-09-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The International Bluegrass Music Association [IBMA] has announced the nominees for its 22nd annual awards. A relatively new band, the bluegrass “supergroup” The Boxcars leads the pack this year wi

2011-09-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

NATO played a crucial role in helping Libyans to oust leader Moammar Gadhafi from power after 42 years. Now as a transitional authority takes over, Libyans are talking about recovery and rebuilding wi

2011-09-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Forty percent of all the frogs in the world are in danger of extinction, according to the Smithsonian Institution. Pollution, pesticides, climate change and now a fungus are taking a toll on this dive

2011-09-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Young children have difficulty learning immediately after watching fast-paced television cartoons full of images and activities that are not possible in real life, according to a new study. It's what

2011-09-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Emerging economies such as China, India and South Africa are discovering there is a downside to prosperity. As incomes rise, health can decline. On Monday, the U.N. opens a high-level meeting on non-c

2011-09-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This year's World Alzheimer's Report focuses on caring for patients in the early stage of the disease, and identifying those who can benefit from treatments that are effective at that stage. In some

2011-09-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Levels of the male sex hormone drop sharply after men become fathers, a biological change that suggests men are hard-wired to care for their children, according to researchers studying human testoster

2011-09-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Happy 40th birthday Alligator Records! The legendary blues label has marked the event with the release of “Alligator Records 40th Anniversary Collection.” If you ever want to start a blues label yo

2011-09-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As President Obama works to build support for his new jobs plan, Congress prepares to debate his bill. One portion of the bill proposes spending to create jobs, much like an earlier stimulus plan put

2011-09-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The AIDS Vaccine 2011 conference ended Thursday in Bangkok, Thailand. While a vaccine to help end the pandemic remains elusive, scientific advances are being made.About 850 scientists, researchers and