2010-09-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Today Evan Fraser teaches sustainable development at the University of Leeds in England. But if he had his way, he would have liked to have been born in the Middle Ages.

"Being born somewhere aro

2010-09-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A U.S. church's plan to burn a copy of the Quran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks has drawn global condemnation. The Vatican has denounced the plan as "outrageous and grave."The Vatica

2010-09-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are under pressure from extremists on both sides who want peace talks to fail. Hamas - the militant Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip and has publicly calle

2010-09-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Riders of a new kind of exercise bicycle can generate electric power for their fitness center's use while they burn their own calories.
The technology helps health clubs save money and also gives

2010-09-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Washington D.C.'s research organizations -- the so-called "think tanks -- provide opinions and research on public-policy issues for lawmakers and the U.S. government's Executive Branch. But they al

2010-09-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

India will declare the elephant a national heritage animal, to focus more attention on the need to conserve the species, whose numbers have been dwindling.India is home to more than half the Asian ele

2010-09-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The World Health Organization said polio is spreading in Angola and has crossed into neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, creating an international threat.A vaccine for polio was discovered more

2010-09-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Iranian government says it has the right to decide which international inspectors will be allowed to monitor its nuclear facilities.A spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry said Tehran could rejec

2010-09-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is no guarantee the U.S.-mediated talks that resumed with the Palestinians last week will succeed.The words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neta

2010-09-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new strategic plan for AIDS vaccine research was unveiled Tuesday. It’s the culmination of an 18-month effort that included the input of 400 scientists worldwide.The new Scientific Strategic Plan

2010-09-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A theater that draws a million people a year is mighty popular. Even more so when you consider that it offers only about 700 seats and that it's not a movie theater or some kind of arena.It's strict

2010-09-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Over the past two weeks of fighting, the U.N. refugee agency reported more than 230 civilians have been killed and at least 400 people wounded. Furthermore, it says 23,000 people have fled their homes

2010-09-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Venezuela's political opposition has an 11-year record of futility. President Hugo Chavez has twice won re-election, survived an opposition-led recall referendum, and secured voter approval of const

2010-09-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Chile's government is sparing neither money nor trouble in supporting the 33 miners trapped by a cave-in on August 5. As part of that effort, they asked the United States' National Aeronautic and S

2010-09-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Strikes taking place across France and London have closed down major transport routes and turned transport links into chaos.London's tube workers went on a 24-hour strike starting Monday evening that

2010-09-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Todd Casey is the owner-operator of MeTompkin Bay Oyster Company and he's got a major problem, no oysters. Casey's family-run business is located on Maryland's eastern Atlantic shore.The oil spill

2010-09-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Texas-based writer-director Robert Rodriguez pays tribute to the movies that inspired him to become a filmmaker with a no-holds-barred, action-packed adventure that features knife fights, shootouts, c

2010-09-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

After weathering the fear of federal prosecution and competition from drug cartels, California's medical marijuana growers see a new threat on the horizon. Oakland is about to become the first city

2010-09-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations has established a new multi-donor trust fund to aid victims of human trafficking around the world. Indonesian women remain among the most vulnerable to trafficking, despite the coun

2010-09-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A British man has appeared in court in London Thursday, accused of conspiring to sell missile parts to Iran in breach of international sanctions. Wealthy golf club president Christopher Tappin denies

2010-09-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Lebanon Prime Minister Saad Hariri told a Saudi newspaper his accusations against Syria were political, and wrong.The remarks are a stunning change in rhetoric from the Lebanese leader, who led the cr

2010-09-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The squid fishing boat was seized last month at a time of rising tension on the Korean peninsula. North Korea's official news agency says it made a "compatriotic and humanitarian" decision to send th

2010-09-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

By the end of next year, the state of Michigan plans to welcome as many as 7,000 new Iraqi refugees. That's in addition to more than 30,000 who already live there. The influx comes at a time when Mi

2010-09-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

New Zealand's second-biggest city, Christchurch, is facing an enormous clean-up after being struck by the country's worst earthquake in 80 years. The magnitude 7 quake devastated parts of Christchu

2010-09-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Lee Ritenour first learned to play guitar at age eight, and by 16, he was recording with '60's pop stars The Mamas and The Papas. His prolific studio work commanded thousands of sessions with the be