2010-10-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This year, 1.5 million people worldwide will be told they have breast cancer. A breast cancer symposium taking place outside of Washington (Oct. 1 through 3) features new studies on breast cancer scr

2010-10-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Militants from Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta set off several small bombs in the capital during ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of independence. Police in Nigeria say at least eight people ha

2010-10-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In India, tensions are ebbing over a sensitive court verdict which has divided a contested holy site between Hindus and Muslims. The government says it is satisfied at the country's response to the v

2010-10-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. Congress has adjourned ahead of mid-term elections, allowing lawmakers to return home to campaign before the key November vote. Democrats are touting their legislative achievements, while mi

2010-10-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

"People want to go on the Internet and check out their friends, so why not build a website that offers the friends, pictures, profiles …"
"This idea is potentially worth millions of dollars."
"Mill

2010-10-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The drug Taxol is a powerful weapon in the fight against cancer, but it's very expensive and complicated to manufacture.Now, scientists at Tufts University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo

2010-10-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new study of a popular dietary supplement indicates that, while pine bark extract is safe, it has no significant effect on blood pressure or other risk factors for heart disease. This new research s

2010-10-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Doctors often use drugs in combination. Sometimes one medicine will enhance the effectiveness of another. Or a drug will have side effects that are eased by a different medicine. Now, researchers have

2010-10-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The 2010 U.S. Professional Golfers Association Tour season ended last Sunday with American Jim Furyk winning the FedEx Cup championship. The lucrative four-tournament playoff event capped a year peak

2010-10-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Jury selection is underway in New York in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. He is the first suspect held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to be tried in an American civilian cour

2010-10-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Pakistani officials say suspected militants in the country's south on Friday set fire to a convoy of tankers carrying fuel for foreign troops in Afghanistan. The attack came after the closing of a Pa

2010-10-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, revived less than a month ago, face a major snag - the issue of Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Palestinians demand a freeze on settleme

2010-10-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama met with Democratic Party leaders in the U.S. Congress on Thursday as lawmakers left Washington to campaign for November 2 mid-term congressional elections. The discussions cen

2010-10-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The State Department said Thursday four major European oil companies have promised to halt dealings with Iran, and will be spared from U.S. sanctions. A Swiss-based subsidiary of Iran's national oil

2010-10-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. special envoy George Mitchell is extending his stay in the Middle East as he works to avert a collapse of the month-old Middle East peace talks.Mitchell was originally scheduled to leave the regi

2010-10-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nomads from the contested Abyei region of Sudan have promised violence if denied a vote in the upcoming referendum to determine the region's allegiance in the event of southern secession. Defining t

2010-10-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As Cyprus marks 50 years of independence, under the cloud of a 36-year division, former presidents Glafcos Clerides and George Vassiliou talk to VOA about the country they both helped to mold and thei

2010-10-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Some economists say Indonesia is poised to become an emerging economic power similar to China and India. Economic growth slowed slightly during the worst of the global economic crisis, but now it is a

2010-10-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On Sunday, October 3, Germany will celebrate 20 years of reunification. Our correspondent visited a village divided between East and West for four decades and reports that it stands today as a monume

2010-10-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An international agricultural research institution in Cali, Colombia is conducting a study into the effects of climate change on the world's top crops. The study by the International Center for Trop

2010-10-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

People with heart failure often need to make major changes in their lives in order to live longer, including controlling their weight and exercising regularly. Few patients, however, are able to do t

2010-10-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A U.S.-based rights group says Yemen is using new tactics in dealing with news media, restrictions that could lead to the "worst climate for press freedom" since the country was unified in 1990. The C

2010-10-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

You'll almost always find four public services run by local governments across America: police and fire departments, the agency that fixes the streets and cleans the sewers, and the public library.

2010-09-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Many North Korean defectors living in South Korea said they are not surprised that a son of leader Kim Jong Il has been appointed to prominent party posts, a move thought to signal the start of a lead

2010-09-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Al-Qaida allegedly has been planning a major terror attack aimed at Germany, Britain and France. Reports say the attacks were planned in Pakistan and would have seen gun-marauding insurgents on the s