2010-12-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A winter snowstorm in parts of the United States appears to have put a damper on after-Christmas shopping, but preliminary reports suggest retailers are enjoying the best holiday season in years. Bliz

2010-12-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Many of the chronically homeless suffer from mental illness, and experts say that psychiatric treatment is an important step in resolving their homelessness. The challenge is -- finding a place for

2010-12-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This Christmas is far from merry for some in Cameroon. Traders are grumbling over lagging sales, families say inflation and lagging wages are stifling their holiday and religious authorities complai

2010-12-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As American Roots music is difficult to define, it might be easier to just let you listen to some of the year's best … like Robert Plant's Band of Joy. His latest album finds the 61-year old singer

2010-12-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nyau is a secret society whose membership is usually open only to the Chewas in central Malawi.The tribe is mainly known for Gule wankulu, or Nyau -- literally its “big dance,” performed by masked m

2010-12-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It's the vitamin that is associated with the sun, that helps strengthen our bones, and may do a lot more. The U.S. Institute of Medicine has increased the recommended levels of vitamin D that it say

2010-12-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In 1982 a groundbreaking film used digital special effects to sweep audiences into the world of video games, which, back then, were mostly big machines in arcades. Almost three decades later, with hom

2010-12-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Winter Holidays. This is the time of the year when many movie goers crave lavish productions. And holiday movies echo that spirit. Hollywood shines with glitz, over-the-top special effects and expens

2010-12-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Travelers around the world are being besieged by all kinds of problems this Christmas season: snow, mudslides and even terror threats. Snow in Western Europe has meant a beautiful white Christmas for

2010-12-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Washington Humane Society got some help from a familiar figure this year, as the Christmas holidays approached. The Humane Society is the only open-access animal shelter in the Nation's Capital,

2010-12-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In major cities across the globe there's a new kind of urban guerilla. They're not handling rifles and guns. They're planting flowers. It's called "Guerrilla Gardening" and it's a new kind of urb

2010-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In U.S. politics, both sides in the ongoing domestic policy debates are taking a break over the Christmas holiday, following an unexpectedly productive final session of the outgoing Congress. When the

2010-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Christmas is a festive time, especially for children. Families gather to celebrate the holidays with delicious meals and wrapped gifts. But for children whose families have no home of their own, Chris

2010-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Some 30 years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, stigma and discrimination continue to take a toll. For example, in South Africa, some young, HIV positive mothers can find themselves homeless and shunned by

2010-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Images of Belarus police clubbing presidential candidates have drawn condemnation from around the world. What does the future hold for Alexander Lukashenko?Western observers called his election to a f

2010-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday urged a 50 percent increase in the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia.The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution requesting the Af

2010-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Congress has passed sweeping legislation aimed at making the U.S. food supply safer.The bill gives the government broad new powers to inspect processing plants, order recalls and impose stricter stand

2010-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It is well known that smoking is bad for you. But just how bad? Three new studies about cigarette smoking show it is more harmful than previously thought for both physical and mental health. U.S. Sur

2010-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama is ending the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that bars homosexuals from serving openly in the U.S. armed forces. The president has signed legislation repealing the 17-year-old

2010-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Ivory Coast's U.N.-endorsed presidential-election winner Alassane Ouattara has rejected calls by incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo for an international review of the country's political crisis, fol

2010-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A discovery of a mummified forest that's between two and 10 million years old is giving scientists a new window on climate change. Joel Barker, a research scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center

2010-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Asia rebounded strongly from the global financial crisis. But as international investors move large amounts of capital into Asian economies, concerns mount about inflation and volatility. Economists s

2010-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Roller derby is an American-invented contact sport that goes back to the 1800s. The modern version of the sport is often played by all-female teams. The women who play demonstrate the physical prowess

2010-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Iraq parliament has voted to approve the new government of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, although the key ministries of interior, defense and national security were left vacant.The vote to appro

2010-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Six years after the end of Sudan's civil war, development has been slow in the south. The southern government started receiving oil revenues in 2005, but has been forced to spend the money to keep t