2012-01-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Health officials in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the United States are calling for international support to end the cholera epidemic that has killed thousands of people in Haiti since the devasta

2012-01-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Tens of Thousands of Nigerians took to the streets for a third straight day Wednesday in the main commercial city of Lagos and the capital, Abuja, to protest soaring fuel costs, sparked by a governmen

2012-01-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Tim Clark is a senior at Amherst College, a small liberal arts school in western Massachusetts, where he’s studied Latin, Greek and archeology. Thanks to those classes, he says, he’s not the same pe

2012-01-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Sixteen major non-governmental organizations have launched a new initiative to add one million health care workers in developing countries.The new Frontline Health Workers Coalition says training more

2012-01-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Glenn Close could earn an Oscar nomination - the sixth of her career - for portraying a woman passing for a man in 19th century Dublin. The actress also co-wrote Albert Nobbs.

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2012-01-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

During his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama called innovation the key to America's rebuilding and growth in the century ahead.Inspired by the message, Steven Johnson set out to

2012-01-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Executive Director of Nigeria’s ‘Enough is Enough’ coalition, Yemi Adamolekun was on her way home from an Occupy Nigeria protest in Lagos Tuesday when she offered two fellow protestors a ride home

2012-01-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Angelina Jolie makes her directing debut with a powerful drama set amid the "ethnic cleansing" of the Bosnian War. The drama, and another film on the atrocities in Bosnia, are drawn from true stories

2012-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

There are more than 300 research scientists working in scores of specialties at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades New York, but few have made as varied and lasting a

2012-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Earthquakes are among the most devastating and frequent natural disasters on the planet - and also among the least understood.Scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, abo

2012-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

At Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a short drive north of New York City, more than 300 scientists and researchers are delving into the geophysical mysteries of our planet from

2012-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

From the moment Spaniards - or Vikings, some would say - first dropped anchor and encountered the natives whom the Spanish called “Indians” because they thought they had arrived in India - the land

2012-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As the earth’s climate changes, one tool for understanding its environmental impacts is the study of past climate changes, revealed by layers of sediment scientists take from the sea floor.At the Lam

2012-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Recently strengthened relations between Guinea Bissau’s Prime Minister and the military should help the country transition to new leadership after the death of President Malam Bacai Sanha was announc

2012-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This is Anthony Pitch’s time of the year. He’s a Washington, D.C., writer and tour guide who, in the weeks before the mid-January Presidents’ Day holiday, brings out an updated little paperback boo

2012-01-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iran’s recent threat to close the Strait of Hormuz led to a defiant U.S. response. It raised concerns of a military clash in the Persian Gulf and also raised oil prices. Some analysts do not expect

2012-01-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

With the U.S. ethanol industry consuming about a quarter of the nation’s maize crop, many have blamed biofuels for rising food prices in recent years. The new year brought the end to a $6-billion sub

2012-01-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The American Cancer Society says in its annual report that fewer Americans are dying of cancer, but doctors are seeing more patients with cancers linked to obesity, including pancreatic and kidney can

2012-01-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Americans are apt to vote when they want change. Republicans are counting on that in this year's election to unseat President Barack Obama. The nation's first primary voting takes place in New Hamps

2012-01-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Two years ago this month [January 21], the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that government may not limit spending by corporations on political campaigns. The majority in the narrow 5-4 decision, known as "Ci

2012-01-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For some time now, Israeli women have been protesting against what they see as efforts by some ultra-Orthodox Jews to exclude them from public spaces. Ultra-Orthodox Jews counter it is they who are s

2012-01-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Miranda Lambert says her new album, “Four The Record,” “pushes the limits” and builds on her previous releases with “a whole new flair.”The Country star kept a high profile throughout the past y

2012-01-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Two decades of civil war in Somalia have made the country one of the most dangerous places in the world for a woman to give birth.The World Health Organization says Somalia has one of the highest mate

2012-01-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The African continent contains about 30 percent of the world’s global rainforests, second only to the Amazon. Scientists and conservationists met at Oxford University to discuss changes the forests a

2012-01-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A Swedish mystery novel that became an international best-seller was made into a movie in Scandinavia two years ago and now Hollywood takes its turn. Alan Silverman has this look at American director