2011-07-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Several years ago, the U.S. automobile-rental company Avis came up with an imaginative, if not exactly boastful, advertising slogan. “We’re Number Two!” in number of rentals, it went. “We Try Har

2011-07-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Young people in a tent city at the center of Cairo's Tahrir Square chanted a song from the 1950s, with words updated to refer to their revolution, saying they want to return Egypt to what they see as

2011-07-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The ocean’s capacity to take up the carbon humans put in the atmosphere is waning, according to a new study reported in the journal Nature Geoscience.Previous studies, with often contradictory result

2011-07-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

How do you interact with members of your community if they're stretched across the world? Many people rely on the Internet, email and social media to communicate across borders.But for many Hmong peo

2011-07-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Scientists have decoded the genetic blueprint of the world's third most important food crop: the potato. Researchers from 26 institutions around the world worked on the project to sequence, or map, t

2011-07-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An analysis of more than a dozen drug studies finds that smokers who take the drug Chantix to help them kick the habit face significantly higher risks of cardiovascular problems including stroke, hea

2011-07-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In the early 20th Century, more than two million African-Americans left their homes and small farms in the South and moved to northern industrial cities to escape overt racism and search for better wo

2011-07-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Acclaimed guitarist Pat Metheny returns to playing solo acoustic guitar on a new album of pop standards called “What’s It All About.” It’s not every day that you hear a remake of The Stylistics’

2011-07-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Through the first half of the 20th century, as television became a fixture in U.S. homes, the reporters Americans saw on TV were white, and almost all men. That began to change in the 1960s. African-A

2011-07-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

India’s traditional traveling circuses remain widely popular across the country, although attendance has been falling in recent years. Despite their popularity, there have long been concerns about th

2011-07-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The North African country of Tunisia was to have held its first ever democratic elections this month. The vote has been delayed until October, as authorities finalize a process that experts hope may b

2011-07-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Rhode Island on Saturday adopted a law legalizing same-sex civil unions. The week before, New York became the sixth American state to allow the marriage of two men or two women. Twenty-nine states ha

2011-07-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The News of the World phone-hacking scandal in Britain has claimed its latest victim - the newspaper itself. News International, the parent company of the newspaper owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch

2011-07-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, is concluding a weeklong visit to Mexico, where she expressed concern over abuse of citizens by police and soldiers fighting organized crime g

2011-07-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

South Sudan celebrated its independence day Saturday with a flag-raising and a swearing-in ceremony for the new president in the capital Juba. A party that started at midnight carried on into Saturday

2011-07-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Ever wonder why foods that are bad for you - such as fat-laced potato chips and French fries - taste so good? It turns out they follow the same pleasure-inducing biochemical pathways through the body

2011-07-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

With the United States' unemployment rate at its highest level this year, President Barack Obama is calling on lawmakers to pass a series of his administration's proposals to improve the economy. O

2011-07-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Standing on the grounds of Kennedy Space Center, facing the launch pad as a space shuttle lifts off, is an experience that defies words. Friday's historic launch of Atlantis marks the beginning of t

2011-07-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nearly half a million anti-government protesters filled the streets of the volatile Syrian city of Hama Friday. Two senior foreign envoys visited in a show of solidarity. Rights activists say Syrian

2011-07-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered Friday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and several other towns to call for faster reforms and to protest this week's jail release of police officers and former gover

2011-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The countdown is on for South Sudan's independence July 9, and the country's future capital is making its final preparations for the big day.Joy in Juba
APSouthern Sudanese military police partici

2011-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The number of adults worldwide with diabetes has more than doubled in the past three decades - jumping to nearly 350 million. And it continues to surge, according to a new study in the journal Lancet

2011-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

One of the most famous jazz clubs in the world recently celebrated its 30th anniversary.When Danny Bensusan opened the Blue Note Jazz Club in 1981, he never dreamed that it would someday become a New

2011-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Research into improving global maize supplies got a $170 million dollar boost today. The new initiative, led the Mexico-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, aims to raise productiv

2011-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In March, two doctors at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston achieved what medical experts call a major milestone by implanting a continuous-flow artificial heart in a human patient. The mechanical h