2010-04-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The city of Miami, Florida, is an oasis of swaying palm trees, white beaches, yachts and gigantic tour ships in the harbor, a handy monorail transit system that winds all through downtown, and boutiqu

2010-04-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The health care debate in the United States is far from over despite the passage of health care legislation. Studies show about half of Americans lack confidence in their health care system. Others ar

2010-04-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On the eve of Israel's 62nd Independence Day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the nation must not rely on the help of foreigners. He was quoting from the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Her

2010-04-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The pope met privately with eight Maltese victims of sexual abuse in the Vatican's embassy in Valletta.A statement issued by the Vatican after the meeting said he prayed with the men and assured them

2010-04-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Northern European skies were clear of most commercial planes Saturday. The European air traffic agency said Iceland's volcanic eruption, which began on Wednesday, will continue to impact European avi

2010-04-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Kyrgyzstan's interim government is planning to put on trial the deposed president, some members of his family and former officials following the violence earlier this month that toppled the Bakiyev a

2010-04-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iraqi asylum seekers on the remote Australian territory of Christmas Island are continuing a hunger strike Saturday following a similar protest at an immigration detention facility in Sydney earlier t

2010-04-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As the son of actor and director Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood naturally gravitated towards two of his father's greatest passions, film and jazz. Kyle eventually settled on a career in jazz, but tha

2010-04-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

If cigars are your thing, you need to check out the city of Tampa, on Florida's west coast, along the Gulf of Mexico.

Tampa slumbered as a little fishing village while East Coast beach towns began

2010-04-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This week on Our World: President Obama and the U.S. space program ... ham radio in the age of twitter ... and a new take on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

DAVIES: "We have genes insi

2010-04-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A huge cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland has disrupted air travel across Europe for a second day, as stranded passengers face the most extensive shutdown of airspace since the September 11, 2001 terr

2010-04-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Thai government's new offensive against anti-government protesters got off to a bad start when efforts to arrest their leaders failed. An investigation is under way into the failed operation.Gove

2010-04-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

African-American jurist and pioneering civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks has died at the age of 85, following a long illness.

Benjamin Hooks was born in 1925 in Memphis, Tennessee — a city, lik

2010-04-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Britain's fastest-rising jazz star, Jamie Cullum, is known for expanding his musical horizons. Cullum's latest album, "The Pursuit", is a mix of old-fashioned jazz and swing with modern rock, pop a

2010-04-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Fifty years ago this week, a young Cornell University scientist named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at a distant star, hoping to hear transmissions from an alien civilization.After a half-cent

2010-04-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Over the years, there's been debate over when to start HIV-positive patients on anti-retroviral drugs, or ARVs. At first the standard practice was to wait until a person's immune system had nearly c

2010-04-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Richard Stengel considers Nelson Mandela — anti-apartheid activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner and the man who led South Africa to democracy — to be an inspiring role model for everyone.

For nearly

2010-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A slowly spreading cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland is covering parts of Europe, shutting down air travel and stranding tens of thousands of passengers around the world. The cloud forced several nor

2010-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For the first time in British history, the three main party leaders will debate one another on national television. Analysts say it is a reflection of how the British political campaigns increasingly

2010-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This weekend Turkish Cypriots will go to the polls to elect a new leader. The election comes at a critical time, with ongoing UN-sponsored efforts to reunite the island. But the current Turkish Cypri

2010-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The grassroots cause known as the Tea Party movement has brought its demands for lower taxes and smaller government to Washington. The Tea Party rally in Washington was the final stop on a nearly thr

2010-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Genetically engineered crops have had a positive impact on the environment and on many farmers' profits, according to a new report by the U.S. National Research Council. But the report says poor mana

2010-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Whether at the desert, on the beach or piled up at a construction site, sand is one of the most common, useful and wondrous materials on earth.

But what is sand? Where does it come from? How is i

2010-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Scientists have developed a computerized system for diabetics that takes the guesswork out of controlling their disease. The prototype artificial pancreas monitors and regulates the amount of glucose

2010-04-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It's late afternoon on a gorgeous spring day in New York, a time when many people might be expected to relax and smell the roses.The taxman comethBut not Jose Torres. He knows that Thursday is April