2010-06-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper formally welcomed President Obama and other leaders to the resort north of Toronto, shaking hands with each before the G8 group went into a working lunch, and se

2010-06-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The football World Cup is entering its second round in South Africa and fans are gearing up for another two weeks of world-class football. The tournament, like any major event, has produced its share

2010-06-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Eating well

More schools are focusing on help children make good food choices. In Vermont, 57 schools are using snack time to encourage kids to eat more fruits and vegetables.

During snack time

2010-06-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Over the past 30 years, the childhood obesity rate in the United States has doubled for children and tripled for adolescents. Overweight kids face an increased risk of developing heart disease, type 2

2010-06-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Five nations will receive the first grants from a new and unusual fund aimed at helping developing-world farmers.Bangladesh, Haiti, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Togo will receive a total of $224 million f

2010-06-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Reducing your risk of diabetes may be as simple as having a bowl of brown rice instead of white. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health have just released a study showing that white rice

2010-06-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As Americans increasingly turn to the Internet for their news — and advertisers follow them — newspapers and magazines are struggling to stay in business. In San Francisco, an unlikely group of part

2010-06-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev say they have succeeded in resetting their countries' relationship, which had drifted in recent years. The two leaders discussed tra

2010-06-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Palestinian women are hoping to improve their lives by using the air waves. A group of women in the West Bank this month launched one of the first all-women's radio stations in the Arab world.Halla

2010-06-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Car accidents are the number one killer of teenagers in the United States.Government data show that every year over 4,000 teens lose their lives in collisions that are caused mostly by "distracted dri

2010-06-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

If you're looking for an endurance race to compete in, there are plenty of choices out there: marathons, biathlons, triathlons.And then there's adventure racing.This multidisciplinary team sport sen

2010-06-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A nutrition watchdog group is threatening to sue McDonald's, the giant U.S. restaurant chain, for using toys to sell its fast-food meals to children.The Center for Science in the Public Interest says

2010-06-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Social networking websites such as Facebook or YouTube are filled with images of people exercising poor judgment in the real world and then compounding it, by posting those videos online.Now, these se

2010-06-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The man now in charge of BP's Gulf team is Bob Dudley, president and chief executive officer of the company's Gulf Coast Restoration Organization. According to the firm's London office, he will re

2010-06-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This is how the U.S. and South Korean militaries say they would fight a second Korean War, if it became necessary, side-by-side and seamlessly.For decades, their alliance has deterred a repeat of the

2010-06-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Worldwide, giving birth is far less dangerous than it was even two decades ago. A new report shows that maternal mortality, however, remains a serious threat - even in wealthy, industrialized nations

2010-06-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Human-rights advocates are calling for the Indonesian government to release more than 100 imprisoned political activists and to end its use of torture. Human Rights Watch says it has documented abuse

2010-06-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An Obama administration official says the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington to explain his controversial comments about President Barack Obama and members of his admini

2010-06-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Australia is mourning the deaths of several mining executives, including billionaire tycoon Ken Talbot, in a plane crash in West Africa. The entire management board of Sundance Resources was wiped out

2010-06-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Political parties in Kyrgyzstan are calling for the government to drop plans to hold a referendum on Sunday, saying the security situation is still too unstable. Ongoing raids by Kyrgyz authorities ar

2010-06-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When American poet Emily Dickinson wrote the lines, "I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you — Nobody — too? Then there's a pair of us!", she might have been writing about the women and men who tended he

2010-06-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

North Dakota is a land of broad, open prairie known for its Native American heritage, the travels of explorers Lewis and Clark and record snow and cold. But there are parts of North Dakota's past tha

2010-06-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It's been five years since singer-songwriter John Prine has released an album of new original material, and three years since his last collection of cover songs. While the award-winning artist has s

2010-06-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Norman Brown hasn't lost his touch for making award-winning "smooth" jazz. In fact, his new album claims several jazz styles, including a Latin melody on the track, "Play Time."One of Brown's earlie

2010-06-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Not long ago, the daily newspaper in Buffalo, New York, ran a story under the headline, The Day the Music Died. Not all music, but music of a most unusual sort.

More than a century ago, the piano