2009-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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A thriving music scene in the Middle East blends hard rock with traditional tones and instruments. The sounds of Mideast heavy metal filled a small Los Angeles club, which

2009-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Kate Munger first discovered the power of music nearly 20 years ago when she saw the profound difference it made for people in the end stages of life, even for those who w

2009-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Americans with disabilities are, in one sense, just like everybody else: They come from varied backgrounds and cope with the challenges life presents them in many differen

2009-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Creating products that save lives in the developing world is the mission of a company based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Vestergaard Frandsen designs and manufactures devices

2009-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Creating technology to save lives by preventing disease. That's the mission of the Vestergaard-Frandsen company, based in Switzerland. In this first of a five part series

2009-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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New satellite data released by U.S. government scientists indicate no let-up in a 10-year warming trend that is shrinking and thinning the Arctic sea ice surrounding the E

2009-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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At first glance, the sunny ground-floor offices of the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley, California, look like any other busy non-profit organization. The bulleti

2009-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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It's spring, when young men's - and some women's - fancies turn to . . . lawns! Older people's fancies, too. For some American homeowners, a perfect lawn is an obsessi

2009-04-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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College basketball's men's national champion will be determined on Monday night at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. Underdog Michigan State will challenge favored North

2009-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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U.S. President Barack Obama is appealing to other nations to join in an effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons. In Prague, the Czech capital, Mr. Obama said the United

2009-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the unemployment rate may go above its current 25-year high of 8.5 percent, but says the United States and other countrie

2009-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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There is no let up in militant violence in Pakistan, where a suicide bomber struck a Shiite Muslim mosque in a central town, killing at least 24 worshipers and wounding do

2009-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Thousands of pilgrims converged on Jerusalem to celebrate Palm Sunday. Church bells rang through the cobblestone alleyways of Jerusalem's Old City, marking Palm Sunday an

2009-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The annual conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union has been told women appear to be losing ground in the quest to achieve gender parity in politics. The number of wome

2009-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The people of Macedonia have begun voting in the final round of presidential and local elections that are seen as key for the country's efforts to join the North Atlantic

2009-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Playing in front of a Final Four record crowd, Michigan State and North Carolina have earned the right to battle for the men's college basketball championship title. Mich

2009-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations says the United States believes the most appropriate response to North Korea's rocket launch will be to work toward a new U.N. S

2009-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The 15-member U.N. Security Council is holding an emergency, closed-door session on North Korea's launch of a rocket that flew over Japanese territory.

Security Counc

2009-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Palm Sunday Mass in Saint Peter's Square. He also prayed for the many African victims that every year embark on a dangerous sea crossing of t

2009-04-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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U.S. President Barack Obama has hailed the results of the just ended NATO summit on the French-German border. Both the president and his proposals for Afghanistan received

2009-04-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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North Korea has decided to hold back on launching a long-range rocket, on the first day of an announced five-day launch window. Weather was a likely factor.

Clouds and

2009-04-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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In the impoverished South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea, the army has begun distributing 43 million condoms to help stop the spread of AIDS. It is estimated that two

2009-04-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, said children are the biggest victims of landmines and explosive remnants of war. UNICEF is calling attention to this ongoing

2009-04-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Women are at a higher risk than men of contracting and dying of tuberculosis, according to a new UN report. It says TB kills more women than all other causes of maternal m

2009-04-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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NATO leaders have agreed on more troops, training and money for Afghanistan, warmly welcomed the new U.S. president, and selected a new secretary-general to take over the