2012-01-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

While members of the military make up a tiny fraction of the U.S. population, the unemployment rate for America's military veterans far exceeds the national average. About 12 percent of Iraq and Afgh

2012-01-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Not many bands that started during the 1940's are still making music, but that is not the case for the Oak Ridge Boys. At the start they called themselves the Oak Ridge Quartet, named after the Tenne

2012-01-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Tha Neih Ciang is learning vocabulary words with other immigrant students. She's among four dozen Burmese youngsters at Bollman Bridge Elementary School, which is less than an hour's drive from Wash

2012-01-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The process of choosing national and local officials in the United States begins with registering potential voters to participate in elections.Every American citizen 18 and older, with few exceptions,

2012-01-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Surveys of South Carolina voters show former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich battling for first place in the state's presidential primary election Saturday.

2012-01-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Poll after poll shows Americans disgusted by partisan paralysis. It is what is often referred to as "Washington gridlock". Yet some political scientists argue, as frustrating as congressional inaction

2012-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The race for the U.S. Republican Party’s presidential nomination appears to be tightening in advance of a crucial primary showdown Saturday in South Carolina. The Republican race took a chaotic turn

2012-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Drive across America, and you’ll see one fast-food restaurant after another:McDonald’s. Burger King. Sonic. Taco Bell. KFC. Wendy’s. Hardee’s. Long John Silver’s. Dairy Queen. Arby’s. Jack in th

2012-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A team of scientists is urging that agriculture be a top priority in climate change negotiations, saying it’s vital for global food security and for reducing carbon emissions. The recommendations app

2012-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Caffeine is a safe and effective treatment for premature babies with breathing problems, a new study confirms.Almost all babies who are born very prematurely have trouble breathing. For decades, docto

2012-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Around 70,000 people from western Ethiopia are being forcibly relocated under the government’s “villagization” program. The people are taken to new villages that lack adequate food, farmland, healt

2012-01-21 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 celebrating its 10th Anniversary. The fund says it has saved more than 7 and a half million lives by supporting prevention and treatment prog

2012-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Legendary blues singer Etta James, whose influence spread to generations of pop, rock and rhythm-and-blues performers, died Friday, Jan. 20, in California from complications from leukemia. She was 73

2012-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A newly-identified link between pandemic flu and the weather phenomenon known as La Niña, may one day permit advance warnings of severe influenza outbreaks.Most of the time, influenza is a temp

2012-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When vast numbers of people gather for political or sporting events, or for concerts or pilgrimages, not everyone goes home healthy. But a new analysis finds that infectious disease is not the biggest

2012-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

California scientists attached a tiny electric circuit to a protein in the human teardrop and watched it destroy invading germs. The unique experiment, a marriage of nanotechnology and microbiology, c

2012-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United States says its military forces in the Persian Gulf region are prepared to deal with any threat from Iran. Top Iranian officials have said they might close the Strait of Hormuz, a move that

2012-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The World Bank has scaled back its growth forecast for the global economy in 2012, as a result of Europe's ongoing debt problems. Although the world lending institution says the eurozone crisis appea

2012-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The latest efforts by Indonesian authorities to stop people from riding on top of trains reinforces the perception that the government is too dysfunctional to make the needed investments to address it

2012-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

South Carolina is steeped in traditions that have an impact on present day politics.In Columbia, South Carolina, stately homes from the 1800s show people's love for preservation and the church steepl

2012-01-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It’s estimated there are more than 45 million abortions worldwide every year. Reproductive rights advocates say more than half are unsafe, causing many injuries and deaths among young women. They say

2012-01-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The most extensive study ever of biodiversity confirms what scientists have long believed, that natural ecosystems are healthier and more resilient when they support a large variety of plant life.Repo

2012-01-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. communities routinely use zoning laws to control where businesses may operate in a neighborhood. Now there's a move to zone the ocean. A number of coastal states and the federal government have

2012-01-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Marvel Comics has entertained people for decades with characters like Spiderman, the Hulk and Captain America. But with the growing popularity of video games and Internet entertainment, comic book cre

2012-01-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In a medical breakthrough, scientists have determined the workings of a protein vital to the parasite that causes malaria, a disease that annually sickens more than 200 million people around the world