2010-03-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

South Korean officials are not ruling out the possibility of a North Korean attack in the sinking of one of the South's naval vessels. About half the more than 100 people on board the ship were resc

2010-03-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama says the new nuclear arms reduction treaty agreed to with Russia after intense negotiations over the last year sends a strong signal that both nations are taking the lead in red

2010-03-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Pakistani troops have killed at least 84 Taliban fighters and lost five of soldiers in two days of clashes in a northwestern tribal region believed to be a militant stronghold.Top military officials i

2010-03-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In the West African nation of Mali, villagers are cutting firewood to pay their medical bills. But in an ironic twist that is making their environment more unhealthy.In the village of Kabe, about 50

2010-03-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Friday's announcement of a new U.S.-Russia strategic arms reduction treaty was achieved partly because the negotiators agreed to separate the issue from the controversy over the U.S. missile defense

2010-03-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Signs of spring are everywhere here in Washington. Trees are budding, flowers are blooming and store shelves are stocked with Peeps.The marshmallow candies — shaped like baby chicks and bunnies — ha

2010-03-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

They hit the music scene 35 years ago with a burst of teenaged energy and budding sexuality. Their story begins in 1974 outside a music club on Hollywood's Sunset Strip when 16-year-old Joan Larkin a

2010-03-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Mae Jemison has accomplished many things in life. She is a chemical engineer, medical doctor, college professor, and in 1992, became the first African-American woman astronaut to blast into space.

2010-03-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

MUSIC: "Our World" theme

This week on Our World: All fats are not created equal ... A new way of making salt water drinkable ... and the gender gap in American science ...

JEMISON: "They are re

2010-03-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On Sunday (March 28th), the first Global Conference on Agriculture Research for Development opens in Montpellier, France. The meeting aims to address the challenges to food security, including high pr

2010-03-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Several Congressional Democrats say they are worried for their safety because of threats linked to the passage of controversial health care reform legislation this week. House of Representatives Majo

2010-03-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Despite advances in prevention, diagnosis and treatment, cancer remains the second-leading cause of death in the United States. The disease - in all its forms - struck 1.5 million Americans last year,

2010-03-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Institutions like the United Nations and World Bank are increasing their attention on girls education, but in countries like the West African nation of Mali only about half of all girls are enrolled i

2010-03-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A drought across southern China and Southeast Asia has brought the Mekong River to its lowest level in 50 years. The drought has led to debate over the vital resource and the effects that economic dev

2010-03-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For years, doctors have been telling patients to cut down on saturated fats — the kinds of fats in meats and milk, for example. Reducing fat in the diet, especially saturated fat, was believed to be

2010-03-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A music producer, engineer and filmmaker from California is taking the message of peace through music to communities around the world, using the latest innovations in mobile recording technology. In t

2010-03-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Recently Indonesia police received praise for dismantling a terrorist training camp and killing a leading terror suspect. But security experts say these police raids also indicate a growing terrorism

2010-03-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

"Greet others with a smile.""Consider what is more important to you: to be right or to be happy.""Don't confuse your thoughts, feelings and perceptions with reality."Those are a few of the 54 "pocket

2010-03-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A planned state visit to Washington by French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the end of March may be overshadowed by European allegations of protectionism against the U.S. Leaders of France, Britain and

2010-03-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israel’s continued settlement of East Jerusalem is a source of tension with the Palestinians. But perhaps even more contentious was the re-dedication this month of a synagogue in East Jerusalem that

2010-03-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The head of the NATO training mission is in Europe this week with his Afghan counterparts to attend the Afghan National Police Development conference in Brunssum, Holland, discussing the progress of t

2010-03-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A U.N. official says incidents of inter-tribal violence have escalated in South Sudan before key elections, killing 450 and displacing nearly 60,000 since the beginning of this year. The April vote is

2010-03-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Before Sierra Leone's April 27 launch of free health care for pregnant women and children under five, the United Nations Children's Fund is stockpiling $7 million worth of medicine.

In one month

2010-03-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

National and state governments around the world have been trying out various incentives and subsidies to promote clean renewable energy but the global economic slowdown has hurt the ability of many go

2010-03-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

New research suggests ayahuasca, a jungle vine found in the Peruvian rainforest, can have a powerful effect on the human central nervous system when brewed with other plants. Researchers say one of ay