2011-08-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Experts say there was plenty of warning that the Horn of Africa was likely to experience severe drought. Nevertheless, millions of people are now at risk.Scientific experts have been saying for years

2011-08-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the United States and, as drought and famine take a devastating toll on their homeland, Somali immigrants are taking action to help victims back h

2011-08-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Turkish government has vowed strong retaliation against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), after Kurdish rebels launched a deadly attack on Turkish soldiers in Hakkari province near Turkey's bord

2011-08-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Danish prince warns that actors should be well taken care of because, “When you die you were better to have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”Producer

2011-08-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Malnutrition rates are skyrocketing in certain areas of the Horn of Africa, which is experiencing the worst drought in decades. To treat malnutrition, aid workers choose from an array of powders, past

2011-08-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A number of international documents set ethical standards for drug trials, including the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki and the WHO’s Good Clinical Practice Guidelines. They sti

2011-08-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Bats are an amazingly diverse group of flying mammals that can be found in virtually every corner of the world. Because they're mostly nocturnal and a few types feed on animal blood, bats have acqui

2011-08-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Japan's tourism industry has been knocked into a deep recession. Foreign tourists, who normally contribute about $16 billion annually to the economy, canceled planned visits after the March 11 earthq

2011-08-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Most publicly-supported schools in the United States are co-ed, but there are some exceptions. In Dallas, Texas, an all-girls school, which opened in 2004, has consistently graduated stellar students.

2011-08-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

International organizations are not the only ones giving aid to the many thousands of Somalis displaced by drought and conflict. Somalis groups are also involved. One is the NGO Hijra."Currently, we

2011-08-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

More than 300,000 Somalis are seeking refuge from drought and famine in the capital Mogadishu. But, because of security problems, many aid agencies have been unable to get help to these vulnerable pe

2011-08-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A series of explosions and attacks hit cities and towns across Iraq Monday, killing at least 63 people. It was the most violent day in the country in months.Firefighters doused the smoldering wreckage

2011-08-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. researchers have developed a stretchy, ultra-thin, self-adhesive material that contains miniature electronics to monitor heart activity, brain waves and muscle movement. According to scientists,

2011-08-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For many Americans, the “good life” means owning a piece, or at least a view, of the majestic Rocky Mountains. Who wouldn’t be drawn to a land of snow-capped peaks, abundant wildlife, and breathta

2011-08-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. researchers say they've been able to modify a patient's immune system T cells, turning them into “serial killer” cells which zero in on cancer and obliterate it. It’s being called a breakthr

2011-08-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Back in the 1950s few women in the United States worked outside of the home, and even fewer earned doctorate degrees or went on to have professional careers.However, as the first chief of astronomy at

2011-08-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Some economists are worried that the United States is poised for another recession. They warn that a so-called "double-dip," if it comes, could be more painful for average Americans than the 2007-200

2011-08-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The famine sweeping southern Somalia is posing a painful challenge to humanitarian organizations. Children are dying by the thousands just a few kilometers from warehouses full of emergency food suppl

2011-08-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Somalia, now in the grip of famine, is also remembered as the scene of the "Black Hawk Down" incident, in which two U.S. helicopters were destroyed and 18 American soldiers killed in 1993. One of the

2011-08-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United States has long been seen as the land of opportunity for many Mexicans looking for work, including traditional Mariachi musicians. But the economy has changed that. The effects of the eco

2011-08-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Michael Gooseff follows water to the end of the earth. The Pennsylvania State University hydrologist works in remote regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, where ice and frozen ground are thawing. He ex

2011-08-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This month, on beaches up and down the U.S. East Coast, tens of thousands of newly-hatched loggerhead sea turtles are emerging from the sand and crawling into the Atlantic. Very few of these baby turt

2011-08-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

More than 12 million people are believed be at risk in the Horn of Africa and the advocacy group ONE wants to raise awareness of the crisis as a first step to action.Kimberly Hunter, the U.S. press se

2011-08-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

With more than 400,000 Somalis now in Dadaab, Kenya, the opening of a new refugee camp there is welcome news. Somalis begin moving to the Kambioos site Saturday.As drought and famine get worse in Soma

2011-08-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Russia and Georgia have had no diplomatic ties since their war several years ago. Georgians currently are reaching out, however, to their much larger neighbor through a new Russian language TV channel