2011-10-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MELISSA BLOCK, host: Google claims that Microsoft is unfairly raising the price of some cell phones. Both Samsung and HTC make phones with Google's Android operating system and both agreed to pay Mic

2011-10-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

As news of Steve Jobs' death spreads, many are sharing their feelings about the life and innovations of the Apple Computer co-founder. From Washington, D.C., to Cupertino, and from Hong Kong to the

2011-10-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev will swap jobs next year with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In this report from Washington, senior correspondent Andre de Nesnera looks at the ramifications of such

2011-10-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Wild and unpredictable swings on financial markets are making investors seek better ways to gauge the future direction of the economy. Market participants have traditionally - and successfully - watc

2011-10-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Well, a life saving corpora, seven-year-old boy in Brooklyn, his mom was having a seizure but he knew exactly what to do. He called 911 to get help and calmly helped guide emergency crews to his house

2011-10-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

China is still a beacon for money-making, clearly in GE, it's expecting to raise its energy-related revenue by 25% a year for the foreseeable future. That's according to this man right here, GE CEO

2011-10-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A lot of people watch political debates on TV. Which means great opportunities for advertisers. But an ad for an island getaway or exotic cuisine will only sound appealing if the viewer agrees with th

2011-10-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In times of drought, parched lands yield few, if any, crops, increasing hunger among communities. As one way of boosting food security during these difficult times, scientists in Kenya and across Afri

2011-10-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Somalia’s prime minister says Tuesday’s suicide bomb attack in Mogadishu shows the increasing desperation of al-Qaida linked forces who still control large parts of the famine-wracked country. The

2011-10-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The magnitude 5.8 earthquake that rattled the East Coast of the United States in August caught everyone - even geologists - by surprise. But even when there's reason to think an earthquake could be a

2011-10-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to Daniel Schechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Schechtman discovered what are called quasicrystals. Sven Lidin of the Royal Swedi

2011-10-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

We certainly worry because it affects us enormously. We export 45% of GDP, 70% of that goes to Europe and the United States which are the focus of the current slowdown. So it worries us a lot. It will

2011-10-05 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The World Health Organization estimates that 346 million people globally suffer from diabetes. Most of them live in low- and middle-income countries. The WHO projects that if current trends continue,

2011-10-05 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Getting access to adequate health care can be difficult in many parts of rural Indonesia, a necessity that often involves long journeys to overcrowded clinics. And once there, many patients often find

2011-10-05 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Brian Schmidt at the Australian National Lab and Adam Reiss at Johns Hopkins. The Royal Swedish Academy’

2011-10-05 所属栏目:英语听力材料

It wasn't supposed to be like this. An Israeli checkpoint was stoned, the response, inevitable. Amid the worst voilence in weeks, the Israelis deployed a new riot control method--ear piercing sound,

2011-10-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

STEVE INSKEEP, host: Here's one less thing to worry about in a stressful time: Earth's risk of being hit by a giant rock from outer space may be smaller than scientists previously thought. That's a

2011-10-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Many Americans are getting what are known as “pink slips” these days.They’re losing their jobs because of plant closings, the move of operations overseas, downsizing of companies’ workforces, or s

2011-10-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Scientists investigating a popular herbal treatment for enlarged prostate, saw palmetto, have concluded it is no more effective than a placebo.That conclusion comes from a study which included hundred

2011-10-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The neighborhood in northwest Washington D.C. looks like a typical American townhouse development, but Takoma Village Cohousing is anything but ordinary.

The privately-owned units cluster around a

2011-10-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Bruce Beutler at the Scripps Research Institute in California, Jules Hoffmann at the French National Center for Scientific Research and Ralph Ste

2011-10-03 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Many small businesses in the United States are struggling these days because of the economic downturn, changes in technology, and competition from large national chains.In the small town of Teaneck, N

2011-10-03 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Almost everything we eat has some kind of date on it, but how much attention do we really pay to the expiry?"Yeah, sell-by date or use-by date, those are the only two that I gotta buy..""Going with yo

2011-10-03 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The Africa Center in London has been a home away from home for the African diaspora for decades -- a meeting place for high profile and historical events. But the Center in Covent Garden is now causi

2011-10-03 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The rule is what goes up must come down, but the trouble is nobody knows exactly where the six-ton NASA satellite will crash land. This white blob is the UARS probe as it spins out of control during i