2010-10-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A decade ago, scientists made worldwide headlines when they announced they had sequenced the human genome - made a kind of map, in other words, of DNA, the inherited molecule that makes us human. But

2010-10-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A Pakistani-American man has been arrested on charges he planned to bomb subway stations near Washington. He also is charged with sharing information with people he believed were affiliated with al-Qa

2010-10-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. military is looking into an incident on Saturday in which it lost communications with 50 long-range nuclear-armed missiles based in the northern United States.The U.S. Air Force's new Global

2010-10-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton embarks Wednesday on a two-week Asian tour that will take her to Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia and China. The trip is ex

2010-10-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Birds and planes have been colliding since the Wright brothers first took to the air.There are dozens of bird strikes each day, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to airplanes each year

2010-10-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United States Fed Cup team is set to play against Italy in the Fed Cup final for the second consecutive year. U.S. Captain Mary Joe Fernandez hopes to guide the team to its first title since 2000.

2010-10-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

After shedding billions of dollars in debt, analysts say both General Motors and Chrysler are poised for a comeback.Ford, the only US automaker to refuse a government bailout, has posted the strongest

2010-10-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Health providers and aid groups have mobilized to combat outbreaks of cholera in Haiti and Nigeria. Often causing extreme dysentery and dehydration, cholera arises from a strain of bacteria that is ea

2010-10-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Indonesian officials say at least 113 people are confirmed dead after tsunami struck a remote area in the country's west. Hundreds are reported missing.Reports of severe damage began to trickle in T

2010-10-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Ivory Coast's Prime Minister is trying to resolve concerns about how the votes in Sunday's presidential election will be counted.With just five days to go before Ivory Coast's long-delayed presiden

2010-10-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For thousands of years, humans have gazed up at the night sky and watched the stars. Now, NASA's Kepler mission gives scientists the chance to listen to the stars. Astronomers are using stellar so

2010-10-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The battle for control of the U.S. Congress has entered its final week and both major political parties are engaged in a furious last-minute push for votes.According to the opinion polls and political

2010-10-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A pair of unlikely league champions begin their duel for Major League Baseball supremacy Wednesday night in San Francisco, as the National League champion Giants host the American League's Texas Rang

2010-10-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Musical mash-up

The Porcupine Singers, a traditional Lakota drum group, performs throughout South Dakota. So does the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra. But they never performed together - until las

2010-10-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The scheduled November 7 general election in Burma, the first in 20 years, is drawing widespread criticism. The ruling military government is restricting foreign media and observers from monitoring th

2010-10-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Recent studies at an international agricultural research institute in Colombia have shown that a grass used to feed livestock, known as Brachiaria, could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from live

2010-10-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Since the food crisis of a few years ago, much attention has been paid to improving agriculture and conserving the land. But land is not the only source of food. The oceans provide food and jobs for

2010-10-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The North Carolina State Fair is under way in the capital city of Raleigh. If you were there, you'd see lots of exhibits about good nutrition, and could sample wholesome farm dishes made from healthf

2010-10-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Steps to launch an international convention on domestic workers led by the United Nations are slowly gaining global support at a time of rising demand for domestic staff in the world economy. A senio

2010-10-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Increased activity from Mount Merapi, one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, is stirring fears of an imminent eruption.Mount Merapi sits in a lush valley in Central Java. Last week, the volcano ju

2010-10-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

India seems to excel at making things smaller and cheaper. The $2,500 car and the $35 computer are just two of the country's latest innovations. Now, India increasingly is focused on low-cost solar t

2010-10-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Most of the world’s poor are not in poor countries. That’s the finding of new research from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex. It could lead to a re-thinking o

2010-10-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

'Even I didn't believe it'

The environmental group the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has brought Duddeda Sugunavva from her fields in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to a recent lunchtime

2010-10-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The latest U.S. Census Bureau figures indicate an unprecedented income gap between the richest and poorest Americans. Those figures are causing concern among social workers the disparity could have an

2010-10-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Finance ministers from the G20 nations ended two days of meetings in South Korea with a pledge to ease trade tensions that threaten global recovery. Though short on details, the informal agreement on