2011-06-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Regal independent department stores were once landmarks and the retail bedrock of every American city. Pampered shoppers could sample perfumes, select suits for which tailors would carefully measure t

2011-06-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Social justice is a key theme at the 9th annual Silverdocs Documentary Festival, a collaborative effort of the American Film Institute and the Discovery Channel. Regarded as one of the most important

2011-06-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

More than 300 universities across the U.S. are turning green, meaning environmentally oriented. They are building sustainable facilities, renovating buildings, connecting solar and wind systems, plant

2011-06-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Libya's rebel military is defending NATO after airstrikes killed a number of Libyan civilians. The show of support follows Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's condemnation of the alliance as murderers.A

2011-06-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On Monday the United Nations-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh will open its hearing into the four surviving leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge movement.Cambodians have waited three decades for this day:

2011-06-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

US President Barack Obama Wednesday announced a drawdown of U.S. forces from Afghanistan next month, with a grim warning to Pakistan: terrorist safe havens will not be tolerated.In a nationally televi

2011-06-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Researchers from the University of Oregon have set up a kind of time machine to test how a warmer climate might affect grasslands and prairies around the world.Today, grasslands cover between 25 and 4

2011-06-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Men who smoke cigarettes are more likely to die of prostate cancer, according to a new study. Smoking also increases the risk of a recurrence of the disease.There are about 900,000 cases of prostate c

2011-06-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Tuberculosis continues to be a major threat around the world, especially in developing countries. A new vaccine has gone into testing, and the results may change how childhood vaccinations are given.T

2011-06-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Wednesday night at the White House, President Barack Obama announced the phased withdrawal of 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year, with a target of removing the rest of a 33,00

2011-06-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan more quickly than expected reverberated Thursday in Europe, where many governments and some citizens also are eager to see t

2011-06-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Asia’s dramatic economic growth in recent years has come with environmental costs that can take a heavy toll on people’s health. While air pollution from busy factories and congested highways are p

2011-06-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The beginning of the expected drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan follows a steady decline in American public support for a war that has gone on for nearly 10 years.When he ran for president in 200

2011-06-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The space shuttle Atlantis is preparing for the final mission of the U.S. shuttle program next month. Atlantis's crew is excited and reflective before the space craft's last flight.The crew, led by

2011-06-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It’s the sole New York school reachable only by ferry, a short ride from the lower tip of Manhattan to Governors Island, a 70-hectare former military base where birds and trees greatly outnumber huma

2011-06-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the government agency which regulates food, drugs - and tobacco - has released new health warnings for U.S. cigarette packs. The warnings consist of graphi

2011-06-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

"Farishta" means 'angel' in Dari, the widely spoken language in northern Afghanistan. It’s also the title of a novel by Patricia McArdle, a retired American diplomat who spent a year in Afghanistan

2011-06-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This spring, so-called “100-year floods” swamped many communities along the Mississippi River, America’s largest commercial waterway.The flooding was so severe that the U.S. Corps of Engineers, whi

2011-06-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. Civil War may be a century and a half behind us, but American emotions about the conflict can still be raw. Director Peter Sellars has taken music by Pulitzer-prize winning composer George Cr

2011-06-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Jon Batzdorff has made it his life’s work to help amputees, not only in the United States, but around the world.His business is prosthetics and orthotics - the evaluation, fabrication and custom-fit

2011-06-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Conservative Christians - the so-called Religious Right - swayed many votes in U.S. presidential elections over the past two decades. But its influence was not as clearly felt in the 2008 election of

2011-06-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The White House says President Barack Obama will announce his decision on the size and pace of a U.S. troop drawdown in Afghanistan on Wednesday. It will come amid intensified national war-weariness

2011-06-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Wacky comedy is a specialty of Jim Carrey, but when his co-stars are six Gentoo penguins …on the loose in New York City …things really get wild. Here's a look at Carrey's new film Mr. Popper's Pe

2011-06-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Environmental activists have relied on public pressure, boycotts and confrontation to advance their cause over the past few decades. Now, a new generation of eco-warriors is revolutionizing environmen

2011-06-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Americans love their cars. There are more cars, per capita, in the United States than in any other country - more than eight cars for every 10 Americans, according to recent government figures.But mos