It's a hot frontier for global investment. And both China and the US want a stake. So far this year, President Obama has visited Ghana（n. 迦纳） and Egypt. Secretary of State Clinton wrapped a seven-nation African tour. President Hu stopped in Mali...
When youre done listening to this podcast, grab whatever product you use to clean. Maybe its something that smells really citrusy. Do a bit of cleaning. Then take a few deep breaths. Believe it or not the odds are now higher that youll make decisions...
Taliban insurgents （叛乱分子） are threatening to target Afghans who vote in the country's November 7 presidential runoff. Afghan election officials are working to improve security while minimizing fraud. The lead up to Afghanistan's second round of...
Lebron, we wanna quote you about being on the cover of Sports Illustrated（画报） when you were 17. You said recently we became big-headed jerks, me in particular. You talked about how the adults around smugly（沾沾自喜） watch the self-destruction l...
They may not look like much, but these are the largest dinosaur （恐龙） foot prints known to man. As six feet wide they are believed to have been left by the sauropod，left for us to see a hundred and fifty million years after they walked the earth....
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in England, Yale Universitys Thomas Steitz, and Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel for their studies of the ribosome....
The head of the World Health Organization urged Asian health chiefs to continue health-care reforms despite the global economic downturn. Margaret Chan（陈冯富珍） says the WHO is working to give poorer nations access vaccines to fight the H1N1 flu p...
U.S. President Barack Obama's wife Michelle is joining her husband's campaign(运动) to reform the nation's health care system. The popular first lady is speaking out for the president's initiative, which has been losing support. Mrs. Obama says healt...
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes in protest at former U.S. President George W. Bush has been released（释放） from prison. Muntazer al-Zaidi said he was whipped, beaten and subjected to electric shocks during his first days in Iraqi custody....
We're in and ready to go. It looks like a vehicle(车辆) out of the Jetsons cross with the Flintstones. It's very comfortable. I, I, er, tell people it's like riding in your long chair. Running smoothly like a mini-electric car fueled by pedal（踏板）...
