美语听力 English Café 442

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AP 2009-12-24

1.Dozens of people are hurt after their American Airlines flight from Miami skidded off the runway while landing in a heavy rainstorm in Hinston Jamaica. Nobody was killed, the plane skidded to a stop just ten feet short of the Caribbean Sea. 2.The S

Patents and Inventions

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 6, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: An office in the United States government has helped protect 1)the property rights of inventors for more than two-hundred years. Its job

美语听力 English Café 530

Topics: American Presidents-James Buchanan; The Board Game Monopoly; here/there you go; expendable versus expandable; the devil's/Devil's own Words: legislature to disband tension complication monopoly property rent to be bankrupt patent royalty inve

AP 2011-08-28

1. Tourists have started evacuating Ocracoke Island in North Carolina, the first test to see if people will get out of the way of potentially major Hurricane Irene. Forecasters say Irene could approach the U.S. as a monster Category-4 storm. 2. A 5.8

AP 2011-11-30

1. 3 American students will be detained from S. to back to US. They were accused growing the fire bombs from the roof by the American university in the Carot. protestor stuffs for secury offices in X square. 2.African official say it is very true sup

AP 2010-07-31

1. It's official: BP CEO Tony Hayward will step down as about October 1st. He will be succeeded by American Bob Dudley a first for BP. Meantime, the oil giant has released its earnings, saying it lost 17 billion dollars in the second quarter. Same qu

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1. President Barack Obama summoned top congressional leaders to the white house to discuss the volatile security situation in Iraq.Officials say the president could ultimately approve limited airstrikes if stronger definitive targets emerge. 2. In Ir

US Patent and Trademark Office Issues 10-Millionth Patent

The United States has issued its 10 millionth patent. President George Washington signed the first almost 228 years ago. A patent is an official document that gives an individual or company the right to be the only one that makes or sells a product.

AP 2011-10-04

This is AP news minute. President Barack Obama says the financial crisis riping through Europe is scaring the world,speaking in Carliforlia at Town Hall,Obama said Europe never fall a heal from the financial crisis in 2007. The latest and seriousest

AP 2010-05-19

1. BP says it hopes to siphon as much as half of the oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, and it's getting ready to shoot mud into a blown-out well later this week to try and stop it all. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is defending the governmen

VOA标准英语2012--DC Locales Touch on Japanese-American Ties, Trials

DC Locales Touch on Japanese-American Ties, Trials Washington, D.C., is always a popular tourist destination, but its even more attractive this time of year. Literally. The spring Cherry-Blossom Festival is in full swing, and nature has cooperated. A

Apple awarded broad patent on touch screen

SAN FRANCISCO, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Apple Inc. has been awarded a long sought-after patent for touch screen functionality on portable devices, a set of exclusive rights expected to play into its current litigation against its counterparts in the mobil

Google to bid for Nortel patents

SAN FRANCISCO, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Google Inc. on Monday announced that it is bidding for patent portfolio of Nortel Networks in the bankruptcy auction for the Canadian telecommunications equipment maker. In a press release, the Toronto-based Nortel

AP一分钟时事08：埃尔顿慈善演唱为希拉里筹款

This is AP News Minute. I. The Olympic torch round looked like a game of cat and mouse, less like a celebration of the Olympic spirit. The route of the heavily guarded torch was changed in San Francisco Wednesday and the closing ceremony was moved a

Obama Signs Patent Reform; Campaigns for Jobs Bill

President Barack Obama has signed legislation to speed the process of approving U.S. patents. The president says the new law is part of his initiative to create jobs and stimulate economic growth. President Obama visited a high school for science and

U.S. jury finds Samsung infringed Apple's patent

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. federal court jury on Friday said it has found Samsung infringed six of Apple's patents and ordered it to pay more than 1 billion U.S. dollars in damages to Apple. The verdict was read in a U.S. district cour

AP 2011-09-13

Additional evacuation has been ordered as the remanents of tropical storm Lee send the Susquehanna river near record levels. Everyone in the small town in Maryland has been ordered to leave as along with tens of thousands of people in central NY and

AP 2010-09-09

1. On this Labor Day, President Barack Obama travels to Milwaukee, talking up the American worker but saying powerful interests of Washington are talking down to him, saying they speak about him like a dog. Obama wants to spend big bucks fixing thing

AP 2010-09-13

1. A Christian minister in Florida is cancelling plans to burn copies of the Quran on September 11th. The plan drew criticism from President Barack Obama along with religious and political leaders across the Muslim world. 2. Strong winds are keeping