2011-09-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

It often takes military intervention to halt genocide. But health data also might help—by providing markers that show a population’s risk of being genocide victims.Researchers at North Carolina Stat

2011-09-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In Shanghai's underground metro stations, posters of supermarket shelves adorn the walls.Busy commuters waiting for their trains can quickly scan these virtual shelves using their smart phones, order

2011-09-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

For U.S. lawmakers, no issue is more pressing or contentious than how to revive an ailing American economy while confronting a $14.7 trillion national debt. Complicating this monumental task is a shar

2011-09-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The search for a bargain and the hope for an unrecognized treasure draws hundreds of people to a tiny East Coast town each week. Every Wednesday, they descend upon a cavernous warehouse in Crumpton, M

2011-09-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Iraq’s foreign minister says his country is headed in the right direction.Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari spoke without notes to member

2011-09-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Scientists can now include online gaming in their problem-solving arsenal. Because game players seem to have provided an answer to a scientific question that’s vexed researchers for a decade.Scientis

2011-09-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Using the question "how well do you make use of your smart phone?" I made a random check of people in our office. Only a few colleagues of mine say they explore the applications available for their sm

2011-09-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The index consists of two sub-indices, to track the domestic iron ore prices and import prices.China Iron and Steel Association says the data collecting system is running well as the iron ore index ha

2011-09-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The air was crisp and the music was loud in the vast plaza in front of the New York State office building in Harlem as health advocates and vendors set up information tables for Harlem Wellness Week.I

2011-09-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Cervical cancer is the second deadliest cancer - after breast cancer - among women in developing countries. Eight hundred women die of cervical cancer every day, nearly 300,000 each year worldwide. Ca

2011-09-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

20 years ago this month, NASA launched the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) . And now that bus-sized satellite is plunging toward Earth.Mark Matney, an orbital debris scientist at NASA's J

2011-09-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The painting in question depicts a naked woman believed to be Xu Beihong's wife, Jiang Biwei, in the 1920s. In 2007, Xu's eldest son, Xu Boyang proved the authenticity of the picture through a writt

2011-09-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The first Beijing Science Festival debuted at the square to the west of the National Stadium or Bird's Nest on September 16th.As Geng Jie, the executive secretary general of the festival organizing c

2011-09-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Today every newspaper in the state of Arkansas is publishing a special section. There are no stories in it. No photographs. Not even any advertisements. Nothing but page after boring page of names and

2011-09-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

College students are back in class across America. But not all of their courses involve the rigor of, say, paleontology or advanced calculus.Every American college has what are called "gut” courses.

2011-09-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This past April, there was a big volcanic eruption in America’s Pacific Northwest. If you missed it, you're not alone.It happened under the ocean off the northern Oregon coast. Since then, several r

2011-09-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

We're gonna turn out to that deadly outbreak of Listeria that’s been linked to contaminated cantaloupes. One family impacted is now fighting back, demanding answers. But how these all could have hap

2011-09-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

When it came to surviving freezing weather, mammoths relied on more than their woolly coats: even their blood was specially adapted to let them thrive in chilly climes. Their hemoglobin functioned wel

2011-09-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

To adapt to increasing concerns over environment preservation and the eventually exhaustible fossil fuel reserves, world-leading auto makers have set the tone of future car development as environment-

2011-09-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Zhang Lijun, Vice Minister of Environmental Protection, announced that the Ministry of Environmental Protection will no longer accept applications for new projects related to the production and storag

2011-09-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Recent U.S. Census Bureau figures show that more than 46 million Americans now live in poverty. That’s the highest amount on record since the agency began tracking poverty rates in 1959. Additional

2011-09-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Eurozone finance ministers delayed Friday a decision on paying out the next batch of emergency loans to Greece, pending a review of the nation's finances. Greece had been scheduled to receive an $11-

2011-09-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Remember these? Sunshine, waves, lazy days, lounging in lazy rivers. It wasn't that long ago but now you are back to this. If you are feeling run down, cranky, a little bit depressed these days, you

2011-09-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

President Barack Obama is continuing his appeal to Congress to pass his plan to boost hiring and the economy. The president plans to announce on Monday how he will pay for the plan and reduce the gov

2011-09-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

So far, more than 30 cities across China have implemented 'home purchase limits' based on their own market conditions. At a new property sales reception in Shanghai, a sales representative tells the