2012-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The World Health Organization says hundreds of thousands of people around the world develop life-threatening illnesses each year from antibiotic-resistant organisms that are often found in hospitals.

2012-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Doctors generally check their patients' blood pressure during office visits, but a new study says many are not doing it the right way - and that by doing it incorrectly, the doctors could be putting

2012-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It is not easy finding a difficult way to perform a simple task. But New Yorker Joseph Herscher takes the trouble to do so, for the sake of making people laugh. A video of his latest outrageously comp

2012-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The world will need to double food production within the next three decades in order to feed a rapidly growing and increasingly affluent population. A United Nations report says reaching that goal wi

2012-02-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

More than three million people in Niger are at risk of severe food shortages in what could be a looming humanitarian crisis, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Soc

2012-02-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Mediterranean Sea was a deadliest stretch of water in 2011for refugees and migrants. The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, says more than 1500 people drowned or went missing while fleeing Africa for Eur

2012-02-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A massive stroke - when a blood vessel in the brain bursts - can leave someone paralyzed, mute or dead. The World Health Organization says at least six million people died from strokes in 2008 alone.

2012-02-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Scientists say a piece of amber - recently found in India and dating back at least 52 million years - offers proof of the ancient relationship between fungi and flowering trees, which sustains modern

2012-01-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Six years ago, the Economist Intelligence Unit based in London, published a survey about the quality of life in countries around the world. Sort of a life-satisfaction index, it takes into account fac

2012-01-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new report names Egypt as the center of illegal ivory trade and smuggling in Africa. With the political unrest of the Arab Spring, illegal ivory outlets and workshops have done a booming business.Th

2012-01-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Katherine Heigl plays Stephanie Plum in the first film based on the popular mystery novels by author Janet Evanovich. Here's a look at One For The Money.

Plum is out of work, laid off from her dep

2012-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Their name is long but precise: The UN Principles for Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and IDPs. Relief groups and lawyers know them as the Pinheiro Principles, named for Paulo Sergio Pi

2012-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Voters in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida go to the polls Tuesday in a primary election that could prove pivotal in the battle for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. Former Massac

2012-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Despite an improving economic picture, the housing market remains a drag on the U.S. economy. The Commerce Department says new home sales fell last month, even as median home prices continued to drop.

2012-01-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday predicted a "robust debate" ahead with Republicans, and the party's eventual presidential nominee, about the economy and future of the country. The president spo

2012-01-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

While President Barack Obama spends the last year of his current term in office with many pressing issues, including trying to get re-elected, African analysts and advocates say policy toward sub-Saha

2012-01-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Academy Award nominations have confirmed the buzz about sure bets, but also added some surprises. In the category Best Actor in a Leading Role, some of the five nominees were expected to be in the

2012-01-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new study finds that children exposed to common industrial chemicals, called perfluorinated compounds or PFCs, have a reduced immune response to vaccines intended to protect them from disease. PFCs

2012-01-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Syrians injured in the crackdown on anti-government protests are crossing into Lebanon to seek treatment. They can’t get treatment in Syria because they say hospitals there are often raided by securi

2012-01-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new exhibit of photos by the well-known portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz shows a different side of her. Leibovitz, known for her photos of celebrities, spent two years taking pictures without a

2012-01-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama is calling for reforms in the way Americans pay for a college education. The president made his appeal Friday before an audience of students at the University of Michigan.Presi

2012-01-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is marking its 10th anniversary. But celebrations have been subdued because of a lack of donations needed for future projects. The United States

2012-01-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In 2009, a Chinese woman illegally entered Japan by altering her fingerprints in order to fool immigration officials.While it was Japan's first documented case of biometric fraud, disguising fingerpr

2012-01-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

People who engage in mentally-stimulating activities over a lifetime have lower levels of a protein in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease, a new study finds.That supports other research wh

2012-01-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The screening of an anti-Muslim film for nearly 1,500 New York Police officers has sparked a call for the resignation of the city's police commissioner.A coalition of Muslim groups is calling for Pol