2010-02-27 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: The architecture of coral reefs ... challenges facing farmers in Haiti ... and how computers and mobile phones are making inroads in health care.

2010-02-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Canada's women's ice hockey team has beaten the United States, 2-0, to win the gold medal at the Olympics in Vancouver. The win is Canada's third consecutive Olympic title.

Canada and the Uni

2010-02-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Ukraine's newly inaugurated president, Viktor Yanukovych, says the country can only address its endemic poverty and corruption if it reforms a system of government currently designed to serve the int

2010-02-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Six weeks after an earthquake devastated Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, Sierra Leoneans have come together to contribute to recovery efforts.Popular Sierra Leonean musician and producer, Jimmy B, w

2010-02-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Staging an Olympics is a huge undertaking, and so is dealing with all of the international media which come to the host city to cover the Games. The woman who heads up the communications team for the

2010-02-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Foster children, who are in state custody because their parents are unable to care for them, can have a difficult time growing up. Unlike children who have a family they can count on if they have diff

2010-02-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For generations, people in Indianapolis, Indiana, have been going to the Roof. But it's not on their housetop, or even outside.

The Roof, as locals call it, is the Indiana Roof Ballroom. It's an

2010-02-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An up-and-coming rock group from Brooklyn, New York has launched a collaboration with local artists in Mali.At Studio Bogolan in Mali's capital city of Bamako, Jeremiah Lockwood is working on the gui

2010-02-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Poverty is not first thing that comes to mind when you think of Japan. After all, there are no children begging on the streets in major cities here. You do not often see Japanese citizens publicly ve

2010-02-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Getting an education in rural Sierra Leone is difficult. Thousands of schools were destroyed during the civil war and many teachers fled to the capital or left the country. The biggest challenge to

2010-02-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Asia's plastic industry is growing, with China and India challenging established producers such as Thailand. Now, there is increasing attention to the environmental impact of plastics. Both environ

2010-02-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An environmental group is applauding Congress for its green record in 2009 but sweeping climate change appears doubtful given the partisan divide on Capitol Hill.

Each year the Washington-based Lea

2010-02-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are a symbol of Canadian pride. Their characteristic red jackets, blue pants and Stetson hats are easily recognizable. The RCMP's Musical Ride is one of the

2010-02-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The sound coming from a small machine is the sound of green economy.

"This is the world's first commercially available pedal generator, allowing to convert your human power into usable

2010-02-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Canada's national government and Vancouver Olympic organizers have poured millions of dollars into the Own the Podium Program to prepare for the Vancouver Games. But the effort has not produced as m

2010-02-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It's called B.C. Street. B.C., of course, is short for British Colombia, the Canadian province in which Vancouver is located.B.C. Street is a group of seven pavilions representing 82 communities thr

2010-02-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

American Lisa Nesser moved to northern Thailand six years ago to help refugees from Burma. Lisa discovered many minority children from Burma were unable to attend regular schools in Thailand so she s

2010-02-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Although the Vancouver Games have not ended, the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia are in the news. At a special ceremony Tuesday, Vancouver and British Colombia officials signed over the Winter Games to o

2010-02-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Informal cross-border trade contributes significantly to the economies of southern African nations - about $17.6 billion a year - and helps reduce poverty. But a group of researchers who met recently

2010-02-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Information technology has come more slowly to the area of health care perhaps than some other fields. But the field of e-health, as it's called, is moving forward, and some of the most notable advan

2010-02-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Having won his sixth and seventh career Olympic medals in Vancouver, short track speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno is now the most decorated Winter Olympian in U.S. history. Ohno made his first Olympic ap

2010-02-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on the NATO alliance Tuesday to chart a clear path toward relevance and enhanced capability as it faces a different set of threats than it was founded to add

2010-02-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The regional mediator for Ivory Coast's political crisis says there will be presidential elections in less than three months.

A written statement from the office of Burkinabe President Blaise Com

2010-02-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Different foods, cooking techniques and lifestyles can explain why some people of some cultures are leaner, healthier and living longer than others. Dietitians and health experts say it's important t

2010-02-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Five years ago, dairy farmer Darryl Vander Haak flipped the switch on the first electric generator in Washington State powered by manure. The facility is officially known as a methane digester.Manure