CNN 2010-03-24

Well that's a pressure cooker of a day on Capitol Hill as we wait and wonder how this vote for healthcare plays out, the final vote is expected Sunday and Democratic house leaders are trying to convince undeclared members to vote yes. 216 votes are n

SSS 2008-12-26

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Sometimes its not what you eat, but when you eat it. At least when it comes to longevity diets. For some time, scientists have known that animals kept on

听电影学英语-辛普森一家 09

[00:06.18]You come back here, IittIe man. 小子，你给我回来！ [00:09.02]I miss FIanders. There, I said it! 我好想佛兰德斯！听到没？我想他！ [00:13.74]-Where's your father? -He went out. - 你爸哪去了？ - 出去了 [00:16.

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-04-28

A cold front is set to move the cross of southeast during Saturday, and this massive cloud is going to trigger some moderate to heavy falls of rain, anywhere south of about Rockhampton in Queensland, but anywhere else, the high pressure system is the

赖世雄英语新闻听力通 第91期:台湾北部降雨逐渐缓和

After isolated areas of severe weather over Taipei, the region's rainfall has tapered off a bit. 在台北的某些局部地区经过一场恶劣的气候之后，该区域的降雨量已逐渐缓和。 Light to moderate rain continues to fall over n

经济学人:能源短缺 电能如何储存?(上)

Business 商业 Iberdrola: The energy-storage question Iberdrola：能源短缺问题 A trail-blazing utility that against full distributed energy. 一个风能先驱对电池持有怀疑的态度。 One of Ignacio Galan's early jobs as an engineer w

新西兰英语 738 Hot, dry summer

Parts of New Zealand have had an unusually hot, dry summer so far. In the North Island, the east coast and central areas have had temperatures in the low 30s or high 20s. This is the same for most of the South Island, except for the West Coast. The W

英语博客：A Long Look At Wheels.

Clunk, clunk. Clunk, clunk, it was time to have the wheels looked at(1) and the tires changed from winter tires to summer tires. For a few weeks I had felt something bump and rattle(2) under the car; it must be the wheels. So, I took the car down to

VOA常速英语2008年-US Urges Pakistan's Moderate Political Parties

By Meredith Buel Washington 28 February 2008 The United States is urging the moderate political parties in Pakistan that made significant gains in recent parliamentary elections to work together to form a coalition government. VOA correspondent Mered

吃早饭好还是不吃早饭好

获得20.1k好评的回答 @Tim Ernst（专业回答）： First lets talk about fasting. Many people think that training fasted is when your stomach is empty but its much more than that. When you consume food theyre broken down into different kinds

VOA慢速英语--词汇典故：下雨天与体育不是很配

Sports and Rain Dont Mix 词汇典故：下雨天与体育不是很配 Now, the VOA Learning English program Words Their Stories. Baseball is often called Americas game. This may or not be true but a baseball game is a great place to learn American E

2007年VOA标准英语-Study: Moderate Alcohol Consumption Helps Men w

By Jessica Berman Washington 04 January 2007 There is more evidence that moderate alcohol consumption may be beneficial. An international team of scientists has found that men with high blood pressure can safely drink one or two glasses of wine per

学个词Learn a Word 第685期 Moderate

今天我们要学的词是moderate。 Moderate, 适度。酗酒有害健康显然无可非议。英国一项研究显示， Even moderate drinking raises the risks for breast, liver and other cancers for middle-aged women, 即便是适量饮酒也会让

不吃早餐会怎样？

What Happens To Your Body When You Don't Eat Breakfast? 不吃早餐对你的身体有何影响？ @Craig Good You can't skip breakfast. It's the first meal you eat in the day, no matter when it is. 你不可以不吃早餐。这是你每一天的第一

Argentine president announces return of Formula One

BUENOS AIRES, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Wednesday announced that the South American country will host Formula One races in 2013, 2014 and 2015. The city of Mar del Plata, 400 kilometers south from Buenos Aires, wi

Moderate drink keeps disease away

BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Middle-aged white women drinking alcohol moderately are more likely to stay healthy than nondrinkers, according to a new study from Harvard. The study has followed about 14,000 mostly white women since 1976. As a resul

谷歌宣布2017年将实现100%使用可再生能源

Google's data centres and the offices for its 60,000 staff will be powered entirely by renewable energy from next year, in what the company has called a landmark moment. 从明年开始，谷歌的数据中心和其6万名员工的办公室将完全使

Rain, snow to hit south China

BEIJING, Jan.1 (Xinhua) -- Rain and snow will hit most parts of south China as a new wave of cold weather sweeps across the country's central and eastern provinces, the national observatory forecast on Tuesday. From Tuesday to Thursday, the temperatu

Heavy rain to continue hitting S China

BEIJING,?may?15 (Xinhuanet) -- In this daytime, the precipitation of southern China has been weakened. The main rainfall areas focused on Northeast China and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. From 05:00 a.m. yesterday to this 05:00 a.m., central and eastern Gua

WHO launches online nutrition guidance

GENEVA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- In a bid to prevent millions of deaths and suffering every year from malnutrition, the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) launched an online initiative on Wednesday. The e-Library of Evidence for Nutrition Action