25 EUROPE'S THEME PARK PLAY GROUND

Nearly 160 million people a year go to amusement parks in Europe and a recent survey found that nearly half of them are adults who go there without children. After a 1)surging growth in the theme park

Travel in Europe - Paris 信步巴黎 - 4

Just across the street from Les Invalides, sits one of the best small museums in Europe. The Rodin Museum is filled with work by the greatest sculptors since Michelangelo. Influenced by both the class

Travel in Europe - Paris 信步巴黎 - 1

Raise your travel dreams to their upright and locked positions, join us now as we discover the ins and outs of travels in Europe. Bonjour, I'm Rick Steves,your next best thing to a plane ticket.This w

Wild Europe - Genesis 肇始之初- 3

In the east, another ancient range, the Urals , separates Europe from Asia. Both these ranges are evidence of Europe's earliest formation, the results of processes that began half a billion years ago.

Wild Europe - Genesis 肇始之初- 1

Europe, an ancient continent. Within its borders lies unrivalled richness of both natural and human wonders. At its northern limits, Europe reaches into the icy wastes of the high Arctic. To the south

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And at other times, they'd have looked more like Africa's Serengeti Plains. More than 15 millions years ago, what is now Vienna and Paris would have been submerged beneath rich tropical seas. And over

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Parts of Pangaea were periodically flooded by shallow seas. But time and again this water evaporated, leaving layer upon layer of salt. Today these massive deposits lie buried deep beneath the Netherl

Europe Offers a New Dream of a Green,

By Zlatica Hoke For more than two centuries, the American dream -- the idea that everyone in this country can achieve personal success through hard work and determination -- has been a source of hope,

成长的烦恼第六季:Let's Go Europe 3

Mike: Oh, this is a nightmare. It all started when I sold my parents a trip to Europe and I got one for free. That's when my troubles began. And that's when I met Amy. Amy: Do you realize that according to the itinerary, we're missing the grave of V

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...and marked the growing pains of a young ocean. 16 million years ago, North America and Greenland finally split apart from Europe. As the continental plates separated, the North Atlantic was born. I

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...Africa. The African plate has been drifting north over millions of years. And when it pushes against the European plate, huge fold s of rock have been forced up and over one another into great moun

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Despite this enormous flood, the Mediterranean took more than a century to refill. But what is more amazing is that this process of drying and flooding has happened not just once, but possibly ten tim

IN THE NEWS - Bush Trip to Europe

IN THE NEWS - Bush Trip to Europe By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Saturday, February 26, 2005 I'm Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. President Bush was in Europe this week for the firs

Europe Reviews Security Strategy

By Douglas Bakshian U.S. plans to withdraw about 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia are prompting defense officials in Europe to modernize their own security strategies to deal with threats in the 21s

Obama Europe Trip to Focus on Economy

President Barack Obama is scheduled(安排) to leave early Monday for a six-day, four-nation tour of Europe. The president will talk with European leaders about improving the global economy and regional security as well as bilateral and multilateral

Europe Moves Closer to Expanding Greek Bailout

Stock markets are rallying in expectation that European governments are finally committed to a comprehensive solution to their spreading debt crisis. Two of the most reluctant countries - Germany and Finland - are expected to vote this week for expan

Europe Pushes Toward More Bank Funding

European officials are moving to add new funding for troubled banks on the continent that are weighed down by the possibility of a Greek default on its debts. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, leader of the country with Europe's strongest economy, len

Europe's Financial Crisis Intensifies

Europe's financial crisis has deepened this week as worries rose about the health of another bank - the Franco-Belgian-owned Dexia. Dexia's board meets Saturday to discuss the bank's future. Dexia's woes underscore growing criticism about the region'

Europe's Economic Crisis Intensifies

Europe's financial and political problems deepened, as stock markets tumbled, Italian bond yields rose over the political turmoil in Rome, and a new coalition government prepares to take over in Greece. The eurozone crisis has risen another notch wit

Germany's Merkel Calls for United Europe

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for a stronger political union in Europe to overcome the blocs debt crisis. She called the crisis the continents toughest hour since World War II. And, in Italy, Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti was hard