【英语时差8,16】遏止危险驾驶必须采取更强硬的措施

According to statistics from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC), the number of people who died from drunk driving decreased by 20 percent in 2007. Cracking down on drunk driving will remain the ministry's topmost priority this y

【英语时差8,16】意想不到的婴儿技能

We marvel as babies develop. Yael tells Don about some fascinating things researchers have discovered about infants. Y: Today, on a Moment of Science, it's time for another round of Baby Skills, that fun and wacky guessing game that shows your baby i

【英语时差8，16】根据真实故事拍摄的决胜21点

The movie 21 offers the appealing notion that success is just a matter of number crunching and calculation. Learn to count the cards in Las Vegas and you'll never struggle for money again. There's a catch: You have to be an exceptional MIT student. D

【英语时差8,16】食物链守则

Food Chain Regulation Biologists who study natures food chain agree about the basic links in the chain: sunlight provides fuel for plants, plants are consumed by herbivores, and herbivores are eaten by carnivores. But researchers arent sure about all

【英语时差8,16】科学家在南极考察时发现巨大海洋生物

Scientists made surprising discoveries of giant-sized specimens of marine life during a major survey of New Zealand's Antarctic seas that ended recently. Huge sea snails, jellyfish with tentacles up to 4 meters long and starfish the size of big food

【英语时差8，16】成龙李连杰同台角逐功夫之王

The Forbidden Kingdom is a martial arts family film that features the first-time pairing of the world's most popular martial arts stars, Jackie Chan and Jet Li, their names linked on screen by the letter J like two words on a Scrabble board. The film

【英语时差8，16】充满冒险的“尼莫岛”

Walden Media's latest, Nim's Island, has a terrific premise from the book by Wendy Orr. Abigail Breslin stars as Nim, a smart, independent 11-year-old who lives with her microbiologist dad, Jack (Gerard Butler) on an uncharted South Pacific island. A

【英语时差8，16】书写简史

Don: Oh, Yael, I just read the most beautiful poem. No wonder our ancestors developed writing--they probably wanted to treasure poetry for posterity. Yael: Actually Don, writing was developed to keep track of more mundane things, like money. For exam

【英语时差8，16】对生日期待太多

Dear Annie: I will be 40 this year and really want to celebrate this milestone in my life. In the past, my husband has told me he needs plenty of notice to plan something special for my birthday, but we've never done much. Six months before my birthd

【英语时差8，16】谈谈机场

Amanda: Mike, I'm so excited about our trip to Hong Kong! It's the first time I'm traveling overseas with you. I'm glad we arrived at the airport three hours early－there was such a long line at the check-in counter. Mike: Yeah, but we'd have been d

【英语时差8，16】为人师表行比言更有力

Public reaction to a recent proposal at Soochow University to rein in the number of appearances faculty members may make on talk shows was swift and negative. Various voices argued in favor of reasonable involvement by university instructors in polit

【英语时差8，16】新郎不是我，花心大萝卜当最佳伴娘

Some of us don't mind that our hero, playboy Tom (Patrick Dempsey), is one of New York's most notorious womanizers; others consider him incapable of turning a new leaf. But no matter where our hopes and suspicions fall in this man's only shot at true

【英语时差8，16】老人依旧欣赏幽默？

Ya?l and Don wonder if old folks still appreciate humor. Y: Every time I see the old crone living next door to me I joke around a little, you know, to be friendly, and she just scowls at me. Maybe when people get old their sense of humor is the first

【英语时差8，16】萤火虫数量减少，专家忧心忡忡

Preecha Jiabyu used to take tourists on a rowboat to see the banks of the Mae Klong River aglow with thousands of fireflies. These days, all he sees are the fluorescent lights of hotels, restaurants and highway overpasses. The firefly populations hav

【英语时差8,16】甜菜汁有益大脑（上）

Is there any way to prevent or cure dementia? Unfortunately, no: theres no cure for dementia. And theres no sure fire way to prevent it, either. But scientists suspect that some types of foods may help the brain stay healthy longer. Right.For example

【英语时差8,16】微波炉如何加热食物？

Lets nuke it in the microwave, we often say as we pull a frozen dinner out of the freezer. That figure of speech seems to express the fact that our experience with nuclear power and with microwaves goes back only a few years, while our experience wit

【英语时差8,16】有机蔬菜真的更健康吗？

Every time i go to the grocery stores，i consider buying Organic vegetables because they are supposed to be healthier or something，but they are also moreexpensive. So is it worth it to pay more for the supposed health benefits? Well, it might be w

【英语时差8,16】伽利略—现代科学之父2

Galileo, however, used one of the earliest telescopes to look at Jupiter. He noticed that Jupiter has moons going around it. Apparently everything in the cosmos didnt have to go around the earth! Perhaps, Galileo said, it just looks like everything m

【英语时差8,16】为何世界大部分为空白？

Sure, you think the world is full of solid objects. You think the radio youre listening to is solid. You think the floor youre standing on or the chair youre sitting in is solid. Heck, you probably think that you yourself are a solid object. Wrong. O

【英语时差8,16】历史最悠久的甜味剂（上）

Honey has been around for a very long time. Cave paintings in Spain from over ten thousand years ago show people harvesting honey. Today honey is mostly used for its distinctive flavor, but for baking it has another advantage as well: baked goods mad