2010-03-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It was a close victory for President Obama, but a victory nonetheless."We pushed back on the undue influences of special interests," he said. "We didn't give in to mistrust or to cynicism or to fear.

2010-03-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Along with test scores, high school transcripts and carefully written essays, some college applicants are now making their case for admission on video. For the first time, a few U.S. universities are

2010-03-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Deep in the forests of Michoacán, several hours drive north of Mexico City, tourists watch millions of Monarch butterflies as they cling to fir trees, gather on bushes, or take off in flight.The stri

2010-03-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Thousands of supporters of immigration reform rallied in the nation's capital on Sunday, voicing their frustration with the government's pace of handling the complex issue. The gathering was both a

2010-03-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new review of 11 medical studies finds that easier access to emergency contraception does not reduce the rates of unintended pregnancy.Emergency contraceptives, like the so-called morning-after pill

2010-03-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new report says the United States can advance its interests around the world by investing in a strategic global health policy. It says besides saving lives, a new policy could bolster national secu

2010-03-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) donor meeting has raised $850 million in pledges for Darfur reconstruction. The projects are aimed resettling 2.7 million displaced people.The Organiza

2010-03-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

South Africans are marking the 50th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, during which police shot into a crowd of unarmed civilians protesting racial discrimination under apartheid. The event mar

2010-03-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A major threat to NATO forces in Afghanistan comes from IEDs or improvised explosive devices. One way British forces are combating the threat is with dogs trained to detect explosives. It's a program

2010-03-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Legislation proposed this week by U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd could result in big changes in the way financial institutions do business. Dodd, the Democratic Party chairman of the Senate Banking Co

2010-03-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke stated his case before Congress Wednesday that the Fed should retain supervision of all U.S. banks and not just those institutions that are too big to fail.? The

2010-03-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The commander who oversees U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan says the training of Afghan security forces is being "overhauled."? General David Petraeus told U.S. lawmakers the changes a

2010-03-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A media rights activist who defends political cartoonists who come under attack for their work says Muslims should try to better understand the western idea of free speech, even if they find the messa

2010-03-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Over 10 percent of New Yorkers, nearly 425,000, are unemployed and looking for work, the highest rate in the three decades that records have been kept. The city's jobless numbers are expected to stay

2010-03-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. space shuttle program comes to an end this year, and a debate is underway over what should replace it. The retirement of the shuttle fleet could result in massive job losses in Florida.

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2010-03-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama has again postponed his trip to Indonesia because of pressing issues in the U.S.? The trip is part of his ongoing effort to reach out to Muslims worldwide. Last year, he ga

2010-03-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The World Health Organization (WHO) lists colon cancer among the deadliest diseases. In 2004, some 639,000 people around the world died from colon cancer. If caught in time, surgery and chemotherapy a

2010-03-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama and his Democratic Party allies in Congress are making one last push for health care reform after more than a year of debate.? Republicans and grass roots conservative acti

2010-03-20 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: The amazing migration of the monarch butterfly ... how vitamin D might help to protect against heart attacks ... and the financial benefits of the

2010-03-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Muslim-American leaders are urging the community to participate in the 2010 Census - the once-a-decade count of the U.S. population called for in the U.S. Constitution - that is now under way.

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2010-03-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Washington, D.C., home to presidents, senators, ambassadors, and — if some residents have their way — urban chicken farmers.

These poultry pioneers are part of a growing movement of Americans wh

2010-03-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Obama is scheduled to visit Australia this month following a trip to Indonesia. In Australia he will be among friends and will be the guest of a center-left government that shares many of th

2010-03-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A U.S.-born radical cleric linked to shootings at a U.S. army base and the failed bombing of a U.S. plane, is calling for a violent uprising against the United States in an audiotape Wednesday.On his

2010-03-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A U.S. congressional panel has described as genocide the 1915 killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.

The non-binding resolution in the House Foreign Affairs Committee recommends that President Bar

2010-03-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iran has released a top politician, a film maker and a journalist, among others, to mark the Persian New Year. Al-Arabiya TV is also reporting that an opposition activist who took part in opposition d