2010-07-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced an initiative called the "Blue Campaign" to fight human trafficking. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is part of DHS, is the largest i

2010-07-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A group of British Muslims has launched a campaign to improve the image of Islam in Britain. The campaign was conceived after an opinion poll found that most Britons associate the religion with extr

2010-07-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Farnborough International Airshow, held every two years in Britain, is a key event where new planes are displayed and flown and where orders are placed. This year there are indications that commer

2010-07-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Engineered devices are all around us.

From cell phones and computers to hybrid cars and deep-water oil platforms, advances in engineering are profoundly changing our lives. But concerns are growin

2010-07-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.N. refugee agency reports a rise in xenophobic incidents against Somali civilians, both inside Somalia and in neighboring countries. In the wake of recent terrorist attacks in the region, offici

2010-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations International Court of Justice has ruled that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 does not violate international law."The Court considers that gener

2010-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Egyptian government is denying reports that President Hosni Mubarak's health is failing, pointing to his recent hosting of several regional leaders. But brief, televised appearances have done li

2010-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The top U.S. military officer says critics who claim it will take years to even have a chance to defeat the Afghan insurgency ignore the fact that a similar counterinsurgency strategy turned around a

2010-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Fighting between rival tribes and rebels in northern Yemen killed at least 20 people overnight. The clashes are part of a new round of fighting between pro-government tribes and Shi'ite Houthi rebel

2010-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Fort Wayne, Indiana, deals with cultural obstacles every day.

The Midwestern city of 250,000 is not only home to the largest Burmese community in America, the U.S. State Department also uses it ex

2010-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

India's popular film industry, known as Bollywood, is trying its hand at producing films which will appeal to a global audience. But the popular Mumbai-based movie industry's efforts to break into

2010-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Twenty-nine years after the death of reggae star Bob Marley, musicians around the world continue to celebrate his music. A new tribute album to Bob Marley features performers from six different count

2010-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Mention Hollywood, and most people think of glamour: beautiful women with smooth, flawless skin and perfectly aligned white teeth, men with trim athletic bodies.But much of that look is artificial: br

2010-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Australia's newest natural burial site sits in a quiet corner at Kemps Creek, on the edge of Sydney.There are no gravestones or grand mausoleums - just a patch of bare grass surrounded by a simple wo

2010-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

At the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna, young people spoke out about how they’re affected by the pandemic and what they’re doing about it.The speakers - all in their 20s - have never kn

2010-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In her debut novel, "Try to Remember," poet Iris Gomez explores the challenges young Latinas struggle with to stay loyal to their families, while becoming independent women in modern American society.

2010-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

South African anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu says he will retire soon from public life. Tutu, who battled to end apartheid and later to promote peace and reconciliati

2010-07-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

American folklore is rich with tales of western cowboys - hard-working ranch hands who spent all day, every day, punching cows. That's cowpoke talk for herding, roping, and branding cattle under the

2010-07-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new study of HIV-infected people in Haiti indicates that starting treatment early could save many patients who might otherwise die of AIDS. And starting anti-AIDS medicines earlier might also save m

2010-07-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Militants stormed a hydroelectric plant in southern Russia Wednesday, killing two security guards and setting off explosives in what is being called a terrorist attack. The incident underscores a gro

2010-07-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Music is a key part of film and television production, and in four decades in Hollywood, Patrick Williams has been a leading composer and arranger of musical themes and scores. The Grammy-winning mus

2010-07-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The success of PEPFAR – the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief – depends in large part on healthcare workers in African countries. But there’s a shortage of those workers, as many leave f

2010-07-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. health officials say there is unequivocal evidence of a link between overuse of antibiotics in healthy livestock and drug-resistant disease in people.In a break from previous policy, they are rec

2010-07-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Each year, scientists work to develop a unique influenza vaccine to protect people against the strain expected in the coming flu season. Mutations in the virus mean that last year's vaccine probably

2010-07-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A very specialized group of scientists meets this month (July 22 - 28) in Paris for a biennial conference on high energy physics and among the topics are the accomplishments of the Large Hadron Collid