2011-07-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

One day after the landing of Atlantis ended the 30-year space shuttle program, the company that ran shuttle operations for the U.S. space agency NASA is dismissing 1,510 employees. The end of the shut

2011-07-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

China's towering basketball star Yao Ming has announced his decision to retire from the National Basketball Association after a series of injuries made it impossible for him to continue to compete. Y

2011-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Eleven days before a possible U.S. government default, President Barack Obama went to the American people Friday with his appeal for an agreement on raising the legal borrowing limit. No deal is publ

2011-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Evidence continues to mount that physical exercise reduces a person’s risk of dementia. In some of the latest research, scientists measure actual physical activity, rather than rely on people's impe

2011-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

People who are grabbing coffee or a meal at a restaurant are sure to have some time on their hands while they wait to place their orders and receive their food.All the while, they often wish they had

2011-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new study finds it may be possible to eradicate an infection responsible for an often-fatal cancer. The research also illustrates the complexities of that approach, especially when different treatme

2011-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Tucked between the Tennessee River and the hills of Marion County lies the small town of South Pittsburg, Tennessee. Home to just 3,200 people, it has one claim to fame: a metal foundry called Lodge C

2011-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Tens of thousands of Syrians continued to protest against their government Friday, in spite of a growing crackdown and the deaths of dozens of people during the past week. Reports from Syria say secu

2011-07-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Space Shuttle Atlantis and its four-person crew landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida just before dawn, bringing to a close a program that began in 1981 and leaving the United States tempo

2011-07-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis has landed for the final time, marking the end of the shuttle era."Nose gear touchdown. Having fired the imagination of a generation, a ship like no other, its place i

2011-07-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Four Kenyans, three men and one woman, plan to take legal action against the British government over alleged colonial-era atrocities. Britain's High Court ruled Thursday that the elderly Kenyans can

2011-07-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A group of Somali friends who have fled their country have reassembled as a rhythm and blues and hip-hop band in South Africa. But even in their new country, where they are living as refugees, they a

2011-07-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

World Team Tennis, an innovative, three-week-long professional league in the United States started by legendary women’s player Billie Jean King, is still going strong in its 36th season in the United

2011-07-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

With the drought in Somalia officially declared a famine, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, was in the Dadaab refugee camps of Kenya to pledge America

2011-07-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Striker Danny Mwanga, 20, is reaching his potential with Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union. Mwanga is second on the team in goals with five and ranks in the top 10 in MLS in combined goals an

2011-07-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Financial crises on both sides of the Atlantic are heating up. And in the United States, there is growing concern that President Barack Obama and Congress will be unable to agree on a deal to raise t

2011-07-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Director Chris Weitz had a global hit with the second film of the Twilight saga. Now he has left behind the world of vampires and is telling a real world story of an illegal immigrant in Los Angeles.

2011-07-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Guinea's president is calling for calm following an overnight attack on his home in a suburb of the capital, Conakry.Soldiers are out in force in Guinea's capital following a nearly two-hour attack

2011-07-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Every year up to half of the fish hauled on board European boats is thrown back dead because of the European Union's complex quota system. Under pressure from fishermen and consumers, the European Un

2011-07-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Andy Warhol once said, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Pop crooner Barry Manilow explores the perils of life in the spotlight on his new album, “15 Minutes.”Manilo

2011-07-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A loss of species at the top of the food chain could have far-reaching effects on the environment, according to a study in the Journal Science.Some of the world’s top predators - including lions, wol

2011-07-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

“We Got Game.”That’s what the Women’s National Basketball Association - or WNBA - promised when the league was formed in 1996.It set out to prove that women play an exciting, team-oriented game -

2011-07-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Roughly 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, China rivals Russia as the largest investor and trading partner in many of the former Soviet republics.Belarus is running out of cash. As elec

2011-07-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Beachfront erosion is undermining a popular tourist destination outside Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos. Environmentalists say stronger tides are partly the result of fewer trees and the harvestin

2011-07-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

These days it seems like American television and videos have us in their clutches from cradle to grave. On the "grave" side, the Home Box Office cable-TV show "Six Feet Under," about a family-owned fu