2010-07-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

France's lower house of Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of banning women from wearing the full Muslim veil – the face-covering niqab and the burqa – in public. Some say the move is ne

2010-07-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A few years ago, OhioHealth, a hospital chain, decided to help its overweight employees slim down and lead a healthier life style.It offered cash to employees who walked every day and stayed active. S

2010-07-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Hollywood is sometimes called "the dream factory" and the new film from The Dark Knight writer-director Christopher Nolan takes that idea to new levels, creating a world in which dreams can be shared

2010-07-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As India's economy grows and its ambition to make a mark on the global scene rises, the country has decided that its currency, the rupee, will have a new symbol. India hopes this will give the rupee

2010-07-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Few things in life are as simple or complex as bread.

The same four essential ingredients - flour, water, yeast and salt - can yield 10,000 different combinations.

That's what author William

2010-07-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A crowd of about 100 mourners gathered at Kampala's tiny Ethiopian Orthodox church Friday to remember 32-year-old Getayewakal Tessema, the only Ethiopian killed in the Kampala terror blasts. Eritrean

2010-07-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

About 100 people attended a recent forum in Dulac, Louisiana to discuss the crisis caused by the BP oil spill. Already, most of the fishing grounds that this community depends on for food and work are

2010-07-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An aid group in Egypt has begun unloading supplies from a Libyan ship that initially tried to break through Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. Egypt's Red Crescent Society began the process

2010-07-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Gulf oil spill could lead to some serious public health problems, according to a new report released this week.As the environmental and economic disaster continues to unfold in the Gulf of Mexico

2010-07-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Kenya's ocean waters are home to five out of the world's eight species of turtles. All are classified as either endangered or critically endangered, and are threatened by poaching, fishing nets, dev

2010-07-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new report warns that promising developments in HIV prevention could be undermined by funding gaps and a lack of political will. The report’s being released in conjunction with the 18th Internatio

2010-07-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Australia's foreign minister is in Jakarta, explaining Canberra's controversial new asylum policy. Indonesia has expressed concern about Australia's plans for a regional refugee processing center i

2010-07-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The coast of Somalia remains a major piracy hotspot, the location of more than half this year's pirate attacks. But International Maritime Bureau Director Pottengal Mukundan says the target area is w

2010-07-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Unless they live there or quite nearby, most people would be hard-pressed to tell you 10 things - or even 5 - about Delaware, America's second-smallest state and the sixth-smallest in population.Dela

2010-07-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The all-volunteer U.S. army - like the United States itself - is an ethnic mix. But Asian-Americans have typically volunteered less than other ethnic groups. Recently, though, they have been enlisting

2010-07-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Pike Place Market is a required stop for visitors to Seattle, Washington. For a century, vendors have sold everything from fruits to hats to books at colorful stalls.Right at the entry to the market,

2010-07-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Volunteers equipped with nothing more than digital cameras are taking part in an unusual bee hunt.It's part of an environmental study that has amateur photographers documenting the impact of climate

2010-07-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Researchers at Boston University have identified a kind of genetic signature in people who are likely to live to age 100 or older. The technique may also help doctors predict whether you're likely to

2010-07-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

New research has found that mice with cancer are better able to fight off the disease when they are in complex, stimulating environments, with lots of toys and other mice that they interact - and comp

2010-07-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In recent years, a virtual library of medical research has concluded that, other factors being equal, complex surgery turns out better when it's done at hospitals where the procedure is done a lot. N

2010-07-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

According to a new study more people live in poverty in eight Indian states than in 26 of sub-Saharan Africa's poorest countries. The creators of the new study said the level of poverty in South Asia

2010-07-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new study finds regular physical activity as a teenager may prevent cognitive impairment - a decline in mental abilities - decades later.

Previous studies found that people who were physically ac

2010-07-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that an Iranian nuclear scientist, who Iran claims was abducted by U.S. agents, is in the United States on his own free will and is free to leave. The

2010-07-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he has enough votes in the U.S. Senate to pass financial reform legislation. The president said several opposition Republicans and conservative Democrats have a

2010-07-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In the waters of the Caribbean Sea, a voracious invasive species called the lionfish is threatening to overtake the reefs. Conservation groups are fighting back with an unusual approach. "Eat them to