2010-02-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

One Laptop Per Child's office feels more like a playroom for geeky adults than a non-profit with a mission to save the world.Plastic green laptops are strewn about in various stages of disassembly an

2010-02-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Only a few blocks from the thousands of fans near the Olympic cauldron in Vancouver, a small non-profit organization is working to help women escape prostitution, drug abuse and violence. The Atira W

2010-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As Sudan's government and Darfur rebels move closer to a final peace, efforts are under way to build housing for some of the estimated 2.7 million people uprooted by the war. There are concerns the

2010-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama is turning to the nation's governors for help in meeting his domestic priorities. State leaders came to the White House for closed-door discussions on the economy, health

2010-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia conservationists estimate hunting and poaching have reduced tiger numbers to fewer than 30 in each country.In eastern Cambodia's Mondulkiri Protected Forest, conservati

2010-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

With Haiti's March planting season approaching, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is warning that international support for the nation's farmers is falling short after last month

2010-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Robert Keeling says he's never felt better in his life. He never gets sick.

"I don't have colds anymore", he says. The 35-year-old Washington lawyer attributes his good health to exercise and di

2010-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Congressional debate over health care reform appears to be over for the moment but, for many Americans, it is still an all-consuming concern.Perhaps nowhere was that more apparent than at a Knoxvi

2010-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Even as a youngster growing up in New York City in the 1950's, it was clear that Nicholas Negroponte would find a way to combine his love and aptitude for art and mathematics.When he enrolled at the

2010-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Japan's foreign minister visits Australia Saturday for bi-lateral talks. Among the topics expected to be discussed is the sensitive issue of whaling. Australia is strongly opposed to Japan's annua

2010-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Livestock production is growing faster than the capacity of nations to safely and responsibly manage it, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.In the latest edition of it

2010-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. men's ice hockey team upset host country Canada, 5-3, in a preliminary round game at the Vancouver Olympics. It is being called the Americans' biggest Olympic win since the 1980s "Miracle

2010-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

American alpine skier Bode Miller, 32, is a four-time world champion and two-time overall World Cup champion. Now he can finally call himself an Olympic champion after winning the gold medal Sunday i

2010-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Kenya's two warring leaders failed to meet Sunday, despite an earlier pronouncement that they would, as the nation's political impasse drags on.Prime Minister Raila Odinga returned to Kenya on Sunda

2010-02-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The 21st Winter Olympics in Vancouver enter their final week Sunday. Local organizers have received high marks for the way the Games have gone so far.

The first eight days of the Winter Games in V

2010-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A key Sunni political bloc declared Saturday that it would not take part in Iraq's March 7 parliamentary election. Saleh al-Mutlak, who was banned from running by a parliamentary committee, is pullin

2010-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Dutch coalition government has collapsed amid a political row over whether to extend the country's military mission in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende was due to submit his gover

2010-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

They come from two nations - Iraq and Iran - that have been enemies for years. But at the Vancouver Games, Rahim Al Haj of Iraq and Amir Kouhskani of Iran will join to play together as part of the Cu

2010-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, U.S.-based Bank of America sponsored and ran a so-called Family Home, where U.S. Olympians, their families and friends could gather in a comfortable environment for the d

2010-02-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is reiterating a previous claim that Islam is "opposed to nuclear weapons," insisting that Tehran is not trying to build them. Iran's ambassador to the I

2010-02-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

One of the Inuit people's native symbols is being used as the the logo for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Members of the indigenous tribe live in some of the most beautiful and isolated parts of Can

2010-02-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new way of making solar cells promises a cheaper way to generate electricity from the sun and new ways to integrate solar power into other products.

Solar cells, or photovoltaics, are widely mad

2010-02-20 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: Going for the green at the winter Olympics ... a promising new approach to making solar cells ... and cheap laptop computers for all the world's ch

2010-02-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The two armed groups handing over their weapons February 8 are the Irish National Liberation Army - or INLA - and the Official Irish Republican Army - or OIRA. Both groups were active during the so-ca

2010-02-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Soldiers in Niger say they have toppled President Mamadou Tandja. VOA West Africa Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story.

In a nationwide radio and television broadcast, a spokesman for the muti