2009-03-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The British mega-brand Virgin has launched a stem-cell bank in Qatar. The country has lofty goals of becoming the world leader in stem cell technologies, and unlike in the

2009-03-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Two key members of Congress raised questions on Monday about the U.S. missile defense plan for Europe, saying that the system is untested and would not protect key America

2009-03-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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In 2003, Texas singer-songwriter Pat Green recorded his Top 5 breakthrough hit, "Wave On Wave." Two record deals and three albums later, Green feels his latest release, Wh

2009-03-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Best-selling author and business analyst Daniel Pink believes that for the past several decades, western society has placed too high a value on so-called left-brainers: pe

2009-03-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The year is 2171. The place: a town of 50,000, east of Reykjavik, Iceland. The scene: the final round of the 2009 Future City Competition in a ballroom in a Washington, D.

2009-03-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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In the Allegheny Mountain foothills of Western Maryland, a superstructure of steel girders has stood along the highway since 1976. Next to it stands a sign that reads, "No

2009-03-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The Obama administration is defending its proposals to massively boost government spending in the wake of a congressional report that projects record federal deficits and

2009-03-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Macedonia has held presidential and local elections seen as vital to the country's plans to join the European Union and NATO. Final results are expected to be made publi

2009-03-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The space walk is one of three that astronauts from the space shuttle Discovery are conducting during their 13-day mission to the station. The job requires astronauts Stev

2009-03-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Pope Benedict is in Angola where he held an open-air Mass for more than one-million people. The pontiff expressed his "deep sorrow" at the deaths of two people killed in a

2009-03-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The UN refugee agency reports thousands of indigenous people in Colombia continue to be displaced from their homes. The UNHCR warns ongoing fighting between illegal armed

2009-03-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station conducted a space walk Saturday. The walk, which required Steven Swanson and Joseph Acaba to float outside the station fo

2009-03-22 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 says any budget passed by Congress must meet his priorities.
Mr. Obama is demanding that the final budget cut the federal deficit, reform hea

2009-03-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Iran's supreme leader is dismissing calls from U.S. President Barack Obama for a "new beginning" in relations between the two countries.

Speaking in the holy city of M

2009-03-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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U.N. human rights investigators are launching a year-long global investigation into secret places of detention. They note the use of such facilities has increased since th

2009-03-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Over 200 professional soccer [football] clubs, 100 stadiums and millions of fans are involved in the first ever Europe-wide soccer "weekend against hunger." The "Professio

2009-03-22 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 says an expert team is on standby to go at a moment's notice to provide emergency assistance to Namibia, which is struggling with the consequences of w

2009-03-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Six weeks after fires devastated parts of southern Australia, residents of one of the worst-affected towns have finally been allowed to return home. Marysville was almost

2009-03-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The State Department said Friday U.S. officials are looking for a reciprocal gesture from Iran after President Barack Obama's conciliatory holiday message to the Iranian

2009-03-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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President Obama's videotaped message to the Iranian people calling for better relations between the US and Iran has ordinary Iranians talking, capturing center stage on t

2009-03-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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European leaders meeting in Brussels have agreed to add more than $150 billion in additional support to the International Monetary Fund and struggling eastern European cou

2009-03-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The head of Madagascar's new transitional authority is preparing to take the oath of office despite criticism from the international community and its suspension from the

2009-03-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos welcomed Pope Benedict at the airport as crowds of singing and dancing spectators waited to cheer the pontiff's motorcade.

In

2009-03-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Russian President Dmitri Medvedev this week announced a large-scale military rearmament program, which he says will require considerable resources despite difficulties ass

2009-03-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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As some large U.S. and European companies teeter on the verge of bankruptcy because they could not find the cash to finance their businesses, some Southeast Asian companie