2010-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

People worried about heart attacks get a lot of advice about what to eat: less fat; more fruits; more vegetables. New research suggests the most important thing they can do may be to simply eat more r

2010-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Anyone who has ever had to recover from surgery or a serious injury was probably grateful for the powerful narcotics doctors prescribed to help ease the pain. But all these medications do is dull the

2010-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Last spring, Steve Kitchin had had enough. For 10 years — since an auto accident left him a quadriplegic — he'd been driving a minivan, modified with hand controls for the gas and brake. At the tim

2010-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In a number of races around the country, strains are developing between some traditional Republican candidates and more conservative politicians who want to return the party to what they believe are i

2010-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Delegates from around the world are at the United Nations in New York, taking part in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference - a gathering that takes place every five years. The confer

2010-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Jebbeh Konneh fled to Liberia as a young woman nearly 18 years ago. She has no intention of going back, even though Sierra Leone is now at peace. Konneh says there is nothing left for her there becaus

2010-05-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Unique partnership

It is noon on a bright springtime day in Manhattan's Riverside Park.

The gently undulating green space abuts the busy West Side Highway, not far from the Hudson River. Jogge

2010-05-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In India, a court has convicted a Pakistani national for his role in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people. He was the only gunman captured alive during the assaults, which straine

2010-05-04 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 arrived in Israel for what the United States hopes will be the start of indirect negotiations in the next few days between Israel and the Palestinians. Neither

2010-05-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A power struggle in Nepal between the government of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and the Maoists, who hold the most legislative seats, is seeing the local folk and foreign tourists caught in the

2010-05-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

China opened the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai on Saturday [5/1/10] with a lavish show and hundreds of thousands of visitors. Organizers expect some 70 million people to tour the exhibits, mostly

2010-05-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A rain-soaked President Obama delivered a somber message from a Coast Guard station on Louisiana's threatened coastline. "We are dealing with a massive and potentially-unprecedented environmental dis

2010-05-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On May 6 British voters go to the polls to elect a new government. With thousands of troops fighting in Afghanistan, the election is being held against a backdrop of rising British casualties, plus th

2010-05-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The 41st annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is taking place in the city where jazz was born. Over a period of seven days the Festival will be visited by approximately 400,000 jazz music fan

2010-05-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

With three weeks to go before Ethiopia elects a new parliament, one opposition candidate has been murdered. Another's house has been attacked with grenades. Both incidents occurred in the mountainous

2010-05-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nepal on Monday faces a third consecutive day of disruption of civic life as a nationwide strike called by the Maoists continues. The former rebels have tens of thousands of members and supporters on

2010-05-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The sharp crack of a cricket bat arguably is heard more in Afghanistan than the sound of gunfire, even in a country wracked by more than three decades of war. In fact, the national obsession with the

2010-05-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Doctors are calling it a milestone. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind prostate cancer treatment. It is not a cure, but it can extend the lives of those fighting the

2010-05-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Former World Lightweight Boxing Champ Keely Thompson is on a mission. He's trying to help "at risk" youth escape the mean streets of inner-city Washington by teaching them self-respect and how to box

2010-05-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

About three hours north of Port-au-Prince, the Artibonite Valley is the center of Haiti's rice production.

This season, farmer Charles Surfoad is storing his rice rather than selling it. He says

2010-05-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Tensions caused by the Greek debt crisis appear to be easing following assurances Thursday by European officials that an agreement on aid for Greece will be reached in a matter of days.? Global market

2010-05-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On the final stop of a trip to promote his initiatives to rural America, President Barack Obama stopped in Quincy, Illinois. A mostly supportive crowd of close to three thousand people greeted the Pr

2010-05-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This week on Our World: Geneticists find new clues to a puzzling disease ... the fungus that's killing off bats ... and the coming increase in hazardous electronic waste...

WILLIAMS: "By around 20

2010-05-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell will return to the region next week to start indirect peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. The

2010-05-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The leaders of Britain's top political parties have concluded the last of three live televised debates before the upcoming general election. With less than one week to go before voters head to the ba