2010-08-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Aaron Harper is hitting it off with a few summer campers, playing ball with bright blue, orange and green whiffle balls.
But, he'd rather be coaching them on chords and tempos.In June, Harper tau

2010-08-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Sharing an agricultural worldview

The Kansas National Guard ADT is made up of about 60 volunteer soldiers, who are using their military and civilian skills - especially agricultural skills - to hel

2010-08-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On a dusty, windswept runway, a small yellow and black airplane lifts into the sky. At the controls is Nareeman Anwar Saleh, and for him, this is no ordinary flight. This flight is the culmination of

2010-08-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Obama says it is essential for the United States to import less and export more."We will rebuild this economy stronger than before, and at its heart will be three powerful words: Made In Am

2010-08-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The treaty replaces the 1991 START I accord that expired last December. It sets a limit of 1,550 deployed strategic - or long-range - nuclear warheads. Some of those are mounted on intercontinental ba

2010-08-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Lawmakers across the U.S. have raised taxes on cigarettes to provide local governments with much needed funds.But a thriving black market in cigarettes is costing governments billions of dollars a yea

2010-08-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As Hong Kong struggles to build an environmentally friendly city, one professor is studying ways to help cut carbon emissions and lower electricity usage by covering the city's rooftops with plants.

2010-08-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Millions of people in the United States suffer from osteoarthritis, or degenerative joint disease. The most severe cases requiring joint replacement surgery.These replacement joints can be made of com

2010-08-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

To ban or not to ban the BlackBerry, that is. It's been a hot debate in the Middle East for nearly two weeks, ever since the United Arab Emirates announced a ban on messaging and other BlackBerry s

2010-08-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The drive to develop a battery to power automobiles, without using petroleum, is also behind the effort to develop an electric powered airplane. New designs for electric aircraft were recently unveil

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

After 25,000 wildfires, some Russians are starting to place some of the fault on Kremlin policies and mismanagement.Nestled in the woods, surrounded by towering pines, life in the blue trim cottage at

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been returned to power with an overwhelming victory in presidential elections. The leader has another seven years to build upon his impressive programs of social and

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

While many U.S. cities have suffered because of the recession, one town in the southern state of Alabama, has fared surprisingly well. The town of Enterprise has applied a turn-of-the-century economic

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

While most American students are on their summer vacations, many teachers are busy attending training programs and getting ready for the coming school year. One group of elementary school math teacher

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Central African Republic has been plagued by poverty and violence for decades. A random household survey examines how the situation has affected residents' physical and mental health.JAMA, the jo

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Americans continue to gain weight and it's having a negative impact on their quality of life, according to a new report.Poor eating habits and a lack of exercise are two of the reasons people gain we

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Islamic holy month of Ramadan is due to begin Wednesday across much of the Middle East and families are feverishly preparing for the event. However, economic troubles and an unusually hot summer

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In the bustling streets of Paris's Muslim quarter, butcher Haj Mohammed is hard at work. With a large cleaver he chops pieces of meat at his Halal butcher shop, and wraps each carefully for his custo

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Guinean authorities announced Monday that the second round of its landmark presidential poll will take place September 19. The run-off vote is meant to return the country to civilian rule after a mil

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. envoy George Mitchell urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to move from indirect peace talks with Israel to face-to-face negotiations. They discussed the issue at Palestinian Authority headq

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The New START treaty deals essentially with limiting offensive nuclear forces. Under the terms of the pact, each country will have no more than 1,550 deployed strategic, or long-range, nuclear warhead

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The report is a good news/bad news story. Zimbabwe has had several years of bad harvests. And, the country's critical food shortages worsened in 2008, when food prices soared around the world. During

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Doctors routinely use robotic devices to assist them during surgery. But what if there were no longer doctors sitting at the controls of these machines?

It could happen. Researchers are exploring

2010-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The annual opinion poll, conducted during July by the University of Maryland and Zogby International, surveyed about 4,000 respondents living in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco and the U

2010-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu testified before a state inquiry commission and defended Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla in late May. He was the first witness in a probe examin