2010-05-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Sal Sunseri is co-owner of the P&J Oyster Company in New Orlean's historic French Quarter. For 134 years it has supplied restaurants in New Orleans and the U.S. with fresh shucked oysters. "We do abo

2010-05-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Goldman faces government allegations of civil fraud and reports of a criminal investigation linked to the troubled subprime mortgage markets. Some shareholders and others expressed their displeasure w

2010-05-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As Faisal Shahzad tells his story to investigators, questions arise about why someone like him would become a terrorist. He once seemed to be living the American dream - an immigrant who had gained U.

2010-05-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nigeria's new president is expected to nominate a new vice president in the coming week. That person could quickly become the frontrunner for next year's presidential election under an informal powe

2010-05-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Members of Britain's third party - the center-left Liberal Democrats - met privately Saturday as they considered a power-sharing offer from the center-right Conservatives. The Conservatives garnered

2010-05-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The unusual fate of two American fathers and their sons recently intersected in Moscow, where cooperation and confrontation between the United States and Russia are on display in two of the city's mi

2010-05-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has been given a 21st century makeover. The star-crossed lovers' tragic romance is being retold in real time on the social media site Twitter - and causing qui

2010-05-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

They're called micronations - individuals, or small groups - who try to create their own countries, while living in a recognized state. They say they comprise a burgeoning movement for people who are

2010-05-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Opinion polls have shown that President Barack Obama's widely-publicized speech in Cairo last June calling for improved U.S. relations with the Muslim world raised public expectations for such an out

2010-05-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The arrest of a Pakistani-born U.S. citizen in the New York City bombing attempt has reignited the debate over the rights of terrorism suspects in the United States. Some U.S. lawmakers and political

2010-05-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Former Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh says a national unity government is a way to end Thailand's cycle of political conflict that has contributed to eight weeks of protests in the Thai capital

2010-05-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Paris may be the City of Light, but the city of lights is the gambling oasis of Las Vegas, in the western state of Nevada.

Along a downtown casino row that's often called Glitter Gulch, building f

2010-05-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. special envoy George Mitchell has been meeting with Israeli officials in preparation for the start of indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Mr. Mitchell is due to start shuttling b

2010-05-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Since the April 20 explosion and fire that sank the BP Deepwater Horizon off-shore oil rig, about 800,000 liters of crude oil a day have been spewing from the broken well into the Gulf of Mexico.

2010-05-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Thousands of Bangkok workers and hundreds of businesses have seen their incomes drop as protests have clogged a central part of the city for weeks. And although the anti-government protesters have agr

2010-05-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The stunning events of September 11, 2001, were a potential template for future terrorist attacks. But since then, al-Qaida and its affiliates have been unable to mount a similar encore in the United

2010-05-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In Britain it is the final day of campaigning before voters go to the polls Thursday and it's the tightest election the country has seen in decades.Britain's top party leaders are taking full advant

2010-05-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

At least seven million Americans identify themselves as belonging to more than one race, and interest is rapidly growing in issues of multi-racial identity.In his new book, "Mixed," writer and artist

2010-05-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Back in 2005, when Frank Ruhli was trying to figure out how ancient Egypt's famous boy pharaoh, King Tut, died, he used CT scans of Tut's mummified remains. Now, says the renowned mummy expert, the

2010-05-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Thursday May 6 is the National Day of Prayer in the United States. This year, the day has been marked by controversy and a court ruling that says having a government-mandated Day of Prayer is unconst

2010-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The leader of Nepal's Maoists, who have enforced a mostly peaceful shutdown of the Himalayan country since Saturday, is warning that the tone of the street demonstrations will change if the governing

2010-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Thailand's political crisis has moved toward resolution, after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva presented a national reconciliation plan welcomed by anti-government opponents. The plan centers on na

2010-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Sometimes, science can seem overwhelming.

There are complicated concepts, unimaginably large — or small — objects, and vast distances that most people have a hard time understanding. And scienti

2010-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Freddy Krueger, one of the creepiest and most memorable villains from modern American horror films, is back on screen in a new and more grisly version of his tragic story in the 're-boot' of "A Nigh

2010-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

One in four American adults cannot read or write well enough to function on the job and in everyday life.

Government surveys indicate that a quarter of American adults are, what is termed, function