2010-07-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

New research suggests agriculture has greatly increased the amount of dust blowing off of West Africa, the world's largest source of atmospheric dust, and may have been one factor driving the decreas

2010-07-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Gerald Albright's versatility has placed him at the forefront of the "smooth" jazz scene. As Albright points out, sax isn't the only instrument he plays on the album."A lot of people don't know tha

2010-07-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Stephen Kinzer is a journalist and author of the book Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future, which looks at conflict resolution in the Middle East, we asked him what new policies the United Stat

2010-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama says the United States is on pace to meet his goal of doubling its exports within five years.The president has expanded an advisory committee on stimulating business abroad, and

2010-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A French court on Wednesday convicted Panama's former military ruler Manuel Noriega on charges of laundering drug money, sentencing him to seven years in prison.Manuel Noriega spent most of the past

2010-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A tough immigration enforcement law scheduled to take effect in Arizona at the end of July is touching off debate and controversy far beyond the southwestern state. As a consequence, immigration refor

2010-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

If any film can rival the World Cup in terms of anticipation by a global legion of fans, it is the new, third installment in the romance of teenager Bella and her beloved, ageless vampire, Edward. Her

2010-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It's noon on a hot New York summer day, and Bob Lewis picks up a large organic radish at the teeming Union Square greenmarket in Manhattan. It's one of about 50 green markets he has helped establish

2010-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A top U.S. health official says the first few minutes after HIV infection may be a window of opportunity to prevent the AIDS virus from firmly taking hold in the body.The HIV that’s present during in

2010-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has not yet said whether he will run in elections that are to take place before April. That has not stopped the debate raging in his People's Democratic Party, or

2010-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israel is hailing Tuesday's White House summit between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama as a success. After more than a year of strained relations over Israeli settlement

2010-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations office in Colombo kept its doors shut Wednesday, a day after hundreds of protesters trapped U.N. staff inside the building.Protesters have removed barricades from the area, but Hous

2010-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For years, the lack of reliable data on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa led regional governments to believe they had somehow managed to escape the epidemic. But a new United Nations repo

2010-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In wide-ranging talks at the White House, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama discussed what both leaders say is the threat posed by Iran's pursuit of nuclear

2010-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Thailand's extension of emergency rule allows the government, among other measures, to continue shutting down any media outlets it considers a threat to national security. The authorities say they ar

2010-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Health experts were alarmed to find a strain of malaria in western Cambodia that showed resistance to artemisinin, a key drug for fighting the disease. Concerned this could cause a global health crisi

2010-07-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In a Las Vegas Casino, players are laying their cards on the table to promote change in Darfur and the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is Ante Up for Africa, a charity tournament where celebritie

2010-07-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The head of football's governing body, Sepp Blatter, accompanied the South African president to the impoverished township of Alexandra, in northeastern Johannesburg, for the launch of the Football fo

2010-07-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for an end to the Russian occupation of the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Clinton's message raises the question of whet

2010-07-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The streets of Williamsburg look just like they did in the summer of 1781, when British soldiers occupied Williamsburg toward the end of the Revolutionary War. The British only stayed for a week, the

2010-07-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama says he is speeding up the U.S. transition to a clean energy economy, as part of efforts to make sure jobs and industries of the future take root in the United States.In his wee

2010-07-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Poland's two presidential frontrunners are going head-to-head Sunday in a second-round run-off vote that may decide Poland's political future.Sunday, Polish voters are choosing their new president f

2010-07-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In 1980, 15 percent of American adults were obese. Today, that number has doubled. Trust for America's Health, a non-profit group, has just issued its seventh report on obesity in America. Jeff Levi

2010-07-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Obama says the U.S. immigration system is "broken and dangerous," and the country's borders are too vast for the problem to be solved only by building more fences.

"In sum, the system is

2010-07-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Grammy-award winning producer Arif Mardin died in 2006 after being diagnosed with cancer a year earlier. Now, four years after his death -- and through a loving tribute by his son -- Mardin is poised