2010-08-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When you open the website, saminapuremakeup.com, a flash movie featuring several beautiful models greets you. All the women have flawless, smooth skin, moist lips, and alluring eyes. Midway through th

2010-08-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nine years after the attacks on the World Trade Center, and a massive effort by clergy and secular groups to promote interfaith dialogue, some observers find the demonization of Islam has not diminish

2010-08-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Palestinian politicians and influential businesspeople gathered in the West Bank town of Ramallah to call on President Mahmoud Abbas not to attend U.S.-brokered peace negotiations with Israel planned

2010-08-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

What am I going to wear today?That daily question often consumes time and causes stress. Some people might even stand before a stuffed closet and still think, 'There's nothing to wear.'But, what if

2010-08-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The divorce between world number-one golfer Tiger Woods of the United States and his Swedish-born wife Elin Nordegren became official on Monday, and two days later comments from both became public.The

2010-08-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Five years ago this Sunday Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf coast area and caused massive flooding in New Orleans after levees there failed to protect the low-lying city. New Orleans had a population

2010-08-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations General Assembly next month is expected to debate the future of Kosovo. The breakaway Serbian province became a U.N. protectorate in 1999 after its ethnic Albanian majority fought a

2010-08-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. military says the number of its troops in Iraq is now less than 50,000, the lowest level since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.The announcement comes ahead of an August 31 deadline to switch th

2010-08-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As President Barack Obama continues his summer vacation in Martha's Vineyard in the state of Massachusetts, the White House faced off with minority Republicans over remarks on Tuesday by a key Republ

2010-08-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Venezuela has stopped publishing official crime rates, but murders, kidnappings, assaults, and robberies have skyrocketed during the past decade.Funerals of murder victims are a daily sight in Venezue

2010-08-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Germany's defense minister has proposed shrinking the country's military and effectively ending the draft. The move would dramatically transform the third biggest member of the NATO coalition in Af

2010-08-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Noble & Cooley is the oldest drum-making company in America. During its 155-year history, the company has evolved from making toy drums for children, to drums for the American Civil War and finally, t

2010-08-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Orchards harboring an extremely rare collection of fruit trees and berry plants may go under the bulldozer unless Russia's top leaders grant a stay of execution. Scientists risked their lives to save

2010-08-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The world's population keeps growing, but the amount of wheat farmers worldwide are able to grow per hectare has leveled off. According to a new study, that's because breeders and researchers have r

2010-08-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When public policy decisions are being made in the United States, corporations, advocacy groups, and others interact with Congress and the government's Executive Branch to influence those decisions.

2010-08-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

HIV, the AIDS virus, has the ability to change quickly, frustrating efforts to find a vaccine. However, the apparent advantage of mutation may also be a weakness.

Since HIV was discovered in 1981,

2010-08-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Oxfam says Niger is at the height of a months-long food crisis. An earlier severe drought destroyed crops, and now heavy rains are ruining what little was left. "It is wiped out many crops and vegetab

2010-08-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In India, protests by farmers about land acquisition in the country's most populated state have focused attention on the growing conflict about land, as the economy modernizes. The growing resistance

2010-08-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Opponents of the proposed Islamic center near the site of the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City gathered near the site on Sunday to rally against the project. Supporters gathered two blocks awa

2010-08-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It's a sizzling summer day, with temperatures approaching 39 degrees Celsius. A brisk business is taking place with a long line on a curbside in downtown Washington, D.C.Kristi Cunningham, and her e

2010-08-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Joe Marshall didn't start out as a mentor for troubled youth.After earning his doctorate in psychology, he spent 25 years as a teacher and administrator in San Francisco. Marshall taught math in midd

2010-08-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As students in the United States prepare to return to school this fall, many student athletes across the country are also gearing up for fall sports. This includes the U.S. sport of tackle football, w

2010-08-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Hockey Hall of Fame is located on the concourse level of Brookfield Place in downtown Toronto, Ontario. It features the world's largest collection of ice hockey memorabilia, including sweaters,

2010-08-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In the movie, "The Big Easy," set in the historic and romantic old city of New Orleans, Louisiana, the hero and heroine at one point are running for their lives. They race from a French Quarter neighb

2010-08-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

With great fanfare, Iran's top vice president, Mohammad Reza Rahimi, presided over the inauguration of what the Iranian press is calling the "peace pipeline," from the main South Pars gas field to th