2010-04-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Life expectancy is rising in much of the world. But doctors are seeing another trend that is disturbing. Some people are choosing lifestyles that contribute to early death. A new U.S. study looks at f

2010-04-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This week on Our World: The amazing world of sand ... the threat of fake medicines ... and the high cost of health care in the U.S.

FREEMAN: "I thought that the American medical system was going

2010-04-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

If you had mentioned Branson, Missouri, 50 — or even 30 — years ago, chances are few people outside that little fishing town in the Ozark Mountains would have heard of the place. But all that change

2010-04-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Pianist David Benoit is basking in the warmth of his first recording of original material in four years, "Earthglow." David modeled his album after a blend of instrumental jazz he calls "jazz-lounge-E

2010-04-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Folake Oyedepo is from Nigeria and she is very focus on what she will be doing while she is here in America. "I'm an English graduate from Nigeria so coming to America has helped me to share my langu

2010-04-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Niger's military rulers have a new consultative council to help plan elections meant to return to constitutional order.

Niger's new consultative council has 131 members drawn from civil society g

2010-04-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Senegal says it remains committed to trying former Chadian leader Hissène Habré for crimes against humanity, but will not move forward until it receives the entire $38 million trial budget from the

2010-04-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When the flood waters receded following Hurricane Katrina's direct hit on New Orleans, jazz fans around the world breathed a sigh of relief to hear that Preservation Hall, home of the Preservation Ha

2010-04-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Kyrgyzstan's opposition has proclaimed an interim government to replace the administration of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. At least 65 people were killed in violent protests that forced the presiden

2010-04-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The youth leader of South Africa's ruling African National Congress says he will abide by a party directive to stop singing an anti-apartheid song that has been linked by some to the murder last week

2010-04-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

With the passage of America's Health Care Reform bill, more Americans will have access to affordable health insurance. But they have yet to see lower costs for medical treatment. Because of that cont

2010-04-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Rick Potts tackles the mysteries of human origins for a living.

For over 25 years, the paleo-anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington has led expeditions to East Africa to explo

2010-04-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Hollywood has rediscovered ancient Greek mythology with its gods and monsters, muscular men with shields and swords and the hero's quest to save humanity in the 2010 version of "Clash of the Titans:"

2010-04-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Country singer Gary Allan used his music to help get through the grief of his wife's 2004 suicide. Gary's new album shows that time has healed some of his pain.

Gary Allan addresses the loss of

2010-04-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nobel Laureate Muhammed Yunus is calling on business, philanthropic and political leaders gathered in Nairobi to help eradicate poverty by providing the world's poor with access to financial services

2010-04-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Asian, African-American, Hispanic, and Native American children in the United States have higher rates of death and more illness compared to their white classmates.

That's the finding in a new st

2010-04-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Austin, Texas calls itself the "Live Music Capital of the World." That's certainly true for the 10 days in mid-March each year when the annual South By Southwest Music, Film and Interactive festival

2010-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

International naval patrols against Somali pirates have made shipping lanes much safer. But they've not been able to eliminate the threat altogether. Naval experts look at what's been done and what

2010-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

One year ago, Italy experienced its deadliest earthquake in three decades in the central city of L'Aquila. Three hundred eight people were killed and tens of thousands were left homeless. Torch-lit p

2010-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Scientists in Scotland say they may have found a new treatment for sleeping sickness, which could be ready for clinical trial within 18 months. The disease is fatal and infects around 60,000 people in

2010-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A people thought to be dead for 500 years hope to prove they're still very much alive, thanks to the 2010 census.The census counts everyone in the United States, including territories like Puerto Ric

2010-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

本篇文本为大概内容,并非录音文本.The nation's oldest underwater reserve is one of nine protected marine areas along the California coast.While Point Lobos Underwater Reserve is off-limits to fishermen

2010-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It's 6 p.m., and the dinner crowd is filling up the pleasantly cramped dining room of the 2nd Avenue Deli in Midtown Manhattan.That’s where self-styled “delicatatologist,” David Sax, chomps down o

2010-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

South African leaders are trying to appease tensions caused by the murder of white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanche. He was killed Saturday by two black workers in an apparent dispute over pay

2010-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Authorities in northwestern Pakistan say a coordinated gun-and-bomb attack targeting a U.S. Consulate and a suicide-bomb explosion have killed at least 45 people. Pakistani leaders have condemned the