2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-eBay Buys Net Phone Provider Skype

E-Bay has agreed to pay more than 2.6 billion dollars to purchase Internet phone provider Skype. The Internet auction giant is hoping that Skype will boost its auction service by making it easier for users to communicate. NPR's Larry Abramson reports

2006年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-A Chess Classic: 'The Immortal Game' (4'0

This is All Things Considered from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. Even in this era of Madden Football and Grand Theft Auto of Gameboys and PlayStations , you can still read an account of Hezbollah's raid across the Israeli border as Nasrallah's gambit

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Cheese-Making Tradition Melts Away in Cam

(France is known for its hundreds of) cheeses. The most famous is perhaps the soft round Camembert, now enjoyed all over the world, but to be considered a real Camembert, the cheese must be made in Normandy, in northwestern France from the milk of No

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Scientists: Male Chromosome Won't Lead to

Scientists at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts say it's fortunate for humans that the Y chromosome is not on the verge of extinction. That's because the Y is the chromosome that makes males males. The outlook is less favorable for

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Eisner Bids Farewell to Disney

In today's business news, we look at the end of an era at Walt/ Disney. Today is Michael Eisner 's last day as chief executive of the Walt Disney company. NPR's Kim Masters has this report: Eisner held the top job at Disney for 21 years , that's a g

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-China Invests in Canadian Energy Sector

in a few minutes, getting back to business in New Orleans, but first to international business. A Chinese bid to buy the US oil company Unocal earlier this year caused quite a stir. Some people questioned the wisdom of letting foreigners control an A

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Transition Seen from Hacker Posturing to

A new survey of Internet security says the computer attacks are increasingly being used to make money, rather than simply to make mischief. Virus writers are finding also ways to amplify their powerthey're renting out robot armies of computers under

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Following the Monarchs in an Ultralight A

One of the world's most amazing migration is about to begin in earnest: 300 million monarch butterflies spread across North America are about to converge on small forests in the mounts of Mexico. This year, the butterflies have an unusual company as

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Study: Eating Cheese Can Alter Your Dream

Somewhere on the right frontier between science and sleep and a hunk of cheddar cheese, we found our next guest. My name is Nigel White, I'm Secretary of the British Cheese Board. The misperception has being that eating cheese before you go to bed gi

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Bosnian City's Unique Statue Choice: Bruc

Back in the 1980s and 90s, the city of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina was a scene of civil war, between the Catholic Croates on the west side of town and the Muslim Bosniacs on the east side. The two groups coexist today, but as you could imagine it's

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Church in Seoul Full of Korea's Faithful

Korea has strong Buddhist and Shamanist roots. For many centuries, it was known as the hermit kingdom because of its resistance to outside influences. But in the last 50 years, Christianity has taken hold in South Korea. The number of Christians has

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Abigail Washburn: Chinese Lyrics, America

But when Abigail Washburn picks up her old time banjo and starts to sing, she often delivers her lyrics in Chinese. It turns out she was speaking Chinese before she learned to play the banjo. In her early 20s, Abigail Washburn lived in the city of Ch

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-An Argument Against NATO Entering Darfur

Darfur, the commissioners will visit camps next to region of Sudan where according to aid groups more than one hundred thousand people have died in civil conflict, an estimated two million people has been displaced. This weekend morning edition we a

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Teaching Kids How to Party -- on the Chea

Commentator Aaron Freeman's twin daughters are getting ready for the ninth grade, but long before they were preparing for high school, he taught them a lesson about their bud Mitzvahs . Ours is an upper middle class community with a healthy percentag

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Google's New Message Service Includes Voi

From NPR news, this is all things considered. I am Robert Siegel, and I am Melissa Block. We are going to begin today with news about GOOGLE. The search engine company has launched a new instant messaging and voice communication service. Until now AO

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-U.S. States, Cities Courting Chinese Firm

It's All Things Considered. I am Melissa Block. And I'm Robert Siegel. Today the State of South Carolina opened a new trade office more than 7 thousand miles away from the statehouse. It's in Shanghai. Trade with China has been a sore subject in Sout

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Laser Work Earns Trio Nobel Prize for Phy

This is All Things Considered. I'm Michelle Norris. Phone calls from Sweden woke up two American scientists this morning, John Hall and Roy Glauber. They will share the Nobel Prize for Physics with a German Researcher Theodor Haensch. All three worke

2006年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-Stories from Sept. 11: Wives, Daughters,

And it's time again for StoryCorps, we've been hearing from this oral history project as it crisscrosses the country. In New York city, it's gathering interviews with families and friends who lost loved ones at the World Trade Center. StoryCorps want

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September是九月 为什么Septwolves是七匹狼 而不是九匹狼? October是十月 为什么Octopus是八爪鱼(章鱼) 而不是十爪鱼? December是十二月 为什么decade是十年 而不是十二年? 这是因为，在古罗马历中，一年

VOA标准英语2009年-Guinea's New Prime Minister Faces Challenges

Guinea's new prime minister faces many challenges in returning his country to civilian rule. Guinea's military leaders chose an international banker as their prime minister to lead a process toward new elections following last week's military coup.