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Callum: Hello, Im Callum Robertson and this is Entertainment. Our topic today is films and film festivals. You may have heard of the Venice Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, glamorous occasions with A-list celebrities from the movie world t

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-09-16

And when the markets in Europe closed a couple of hours ago, London's FTSE 100 was 96 points higher. In the US, trading comes to a close shortly and the Dow Jones is up 30 points, while the SP 500 is flat. And the Australian dollar is worth 105 US th

Placebo Effect Update

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: November 19, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. When scientists want to test the effectiveness of a new drug, they usually divide

Food

Yvonne: In the past, English food has often been described as boring and tasteless. But times have certainly changed and now many restaurants, particularly in London, serve interesting dishes and people enjoy cooking delicious meals for their friend

Portobello Film Festival

Callum: Hello, Im Callum Robertson and this is Entertainment. Our topic today is films and film festivals. You may have heard of the Venice Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, glamorous occasions with A-list celebrities from the movie world

'Political Attack Dogs' Add Color to US Presidential Campaig

Ted Landphair Earlier this month, an open microphone caught Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in an unguarded moment, muttering to supporters about the Republican opposition.

听歌学英语：Hopefulessness-Courtney Barnett

You know what they say 你知道他们说了些什么 No one is born to hate 没有人生来就懂得憎恨 We learn it somewhere along the way 我们都是随着时间的流逝学会的 Take your broken heart 把你破碎的心 Turn it into art 变成

Thomas Barnett的世界和平新方案

在这次令人振奋且朴实的演讲中，国际安全战略家Thomas Barnett将概述自己为正在走下坡路的美军寻找到的冷战后的世界和平方案。他朴实的理论既符合实际又激动人心，简单地讲就是将世界一分

2007年VOA标准英语-African Children’s Choir Brings Joyous Music to

By Greg Flakus Houston, Texas 13 April 2007 Watch Children's Choir report A little taste of Africa came to the city of Houston, Texas, recently in the form of 24 children singing and dancing together as part of the African Children's Choir, a non-pr

2006年VOA标准英语-US Public Health Workers May Not Work in F

By David McAlary Washington 18 April 2006 Nurses are in short supply throughtout the United States A new study shows that Americans might not be able to count on public health workers, if an influenza

Ethical Travel

BBC Learning English Weekender Ethical Travel Yvonne:This weekend, thousands and thousands of people will travel to countries across the world.And in Britain alone, about 60 million people take a holiday abroad each year!But forget the tourists and

美国国家公共电台 NPR My First Existential Crisis: The Sweet Story Of An Angsty 'Square'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: An unlikely literary hero is getting his turn in the spotlight. He's a little square but full of personality, and he sprang from the imaginations of these guys. MAC BARNETT: My name is Mac Barnett, and I'm a writer. I write books

美国国家公共电台 NPR In New Film, 'My Friend Dahmer' Author Portrays Serial Killer As Sympathetic Outcast

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Here's that second story we promised you. There's a new movie out this weekend, and it's a biopic with an interesting backstory of its own. Remember the serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer? Between 1978 and 1991, he murdered 17 people

美国国家公共电台 NPR Preschool, A State-By-State Update

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: More states than ever are funding preschool. That is according to a new report from the National Institute for Early Education Research or NIEER. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports. CLAUDIO SANCHEZ, BYLINE: Forty-three states plus the

美国国家公共电台 NPR Scientists Race To Improve 'Living Drugs' To Fight Cancer

NOEL KING, HOST: There's been a really exciting advance in the war on cancer with the help of what scientists are calling living drugs. They're made by genetically modifying patients' own immune system cells. And today NPR's health correspondent Rob

PBS高端访谈:学前教育的扩张遭遇激烈争论

GWEN IFILL: Tens of thousands of parents in New York City will get a chance to send their children this fall to free full-time pre-kindergarten classes, thanks to a new $300 million state program announced jointly by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo an

每日一词【753】side effect：副作用

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

温室效应 The Greenhouse Effect

As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

学个词Learn a Word 第753期 side effect

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

Pope leaves Vatican, resignation takes effect

VATICAN CITY, Feb.28 (Xinhua) -- The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI came into effect at 8 pm local time (1900 GMT) on Thursday, who had left the Vatican by helicopter for the papal vacation retreat in south Rome earlier in the afternoon. The pope h