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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/language_tips/auvideo/audio_voa.html现在提供网址，大家自己去听吧！！最近由于本人太忙了，没办法抽到时间上来弄！让各位就等了就不好意思啊！！！！











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A U.S. government scientific report concludes that future decades will see significant climate change in the United States, caused primarily by human activity. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington.

The report, titled Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States, concludes that a warming of the earth will have a far-reaching impact on the United States. Not only will winters become milder and summers hotter, climate change will affect rainfall, water supply, hurricane activity, sea levels, agricultural production, energy production, biological diversity, and human health.

The report, written by President Bush's National Science and Technology Council, is being sent to the White House and Congress.

It paints a worrisome picture of more heat waves and wildfires, increased water shortages in regions that depend on mountain snowmelt, greater coastal flooding and erosion, more-intense storms and hurricanes, the disruption and dislocation of ecosystems, and increased risk of crop failures. It also predicts geographic shifts in human settlements, higher heat-related human mortality, and increased risk for some diseases.

The report notes that climate change is a complicated phenomenon, but concludes that there is "a strong human influence on climate." In particular, human activities that generate carbon dioxide, a so-called "greenhouse gas" is seen as a main culprit.

If embraced by President Bush, the report would constitute a shift in thinking by the administration on climate change. For years, President Bush has maintained that while there is strong evidence that climate change is occurring, the causes are not clear and warrant further study before implementing any far-reaching, costly initiatives to combat the phenomenon.

The report does not make any specific policy recommendations for combating climate change, but would seem to suggest that reducing the emission of greenhouse gasses would be beneficial. Even so, the report states that some climate change in the future is inevitable regardless of any steps taken, because a certain amount of warming will occur due to greenhouse gas emissions that have already occurred.




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U.S. President George Bush is in Slovenia for talks with the leaders of the European Union. VOA White House Correspondent Paula Wolfson reports from Ljubljana the agenda includes economic and security matters.

These trans-Atlantic summits have traditionally focused on economic issues. And President Bush says he is eager to discuss money matters with the leaders of the European Union.

"The U.S. economy has continued to grow in the face of unprecedented challenges," he said. "We [have] got to keep our economies flexible; both the U.S. economy and European economies need to be flexible in order to deal with today's challenges."

He says he wants to talk to them about joint action to address the high cost of energy. He says currency issues will also be discussed, including concerns about the strength of the U.S. dollar.

"I will talk about our nation's commitment to a strong dollar," said President Bush. "A strong dollar is in our nation's interests. It is in the interests of the global economy."

In recent years, these summits have also begun to tackle trans-Atlantic security concerns. And the White House says the talks at a castle just outside Ljubljana will cover efforts to ease tensions in the Balkans and bring peace to the Middle East.

President Bush has made clear he is eager to talk about Iran's nuclear program. And as he left the White House, he left no doubt he wants to talk to the Europeans about stepping up their commitment to the young democracy in Afghanistan.

"The countries I am going to have committed troops to Afghanistan, and I, of course, want to thank them, and remind them there is a lot of work to be done," he said.

White House officials say they expect no dramatic announcements following the president's talks with European Union leaders in Slovenia, which currently holds the six-month rotating E.U. presidency.

In addition to Slovenia's prime minister, European Union participants in the talks will include European Commission President Jose Barroso, and E.U. security chief Javier Solana.

Experts in trans-Atlantic relations say they have seen a shift in President Bush's attitude toward dealings with Europe that is bearing fruit at the end of his term.

John K. Glenn is head of the foreign policy program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

He says President Bush has made a concerted effort since his re-election in 2004 to move beyond differences with Europe over Iraq.

"And so we kind of set aside Iraq off the trans-Atlantic agenda as a way to look at these other issues because there is certainly enough to be done and enough pressure on both the United States and Europe," said Glenn.

After the summit talks with E.U. leaders, President Bush will head to Germany where he will mark the 60th anniversary of the implementation of the Marshall Plan and the Berlin airlift. He will then travel to Italy, France and the United Kingdom.




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U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton says she will end her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on Saturday and endorse rival Senator Barack Obama, who has now secured enough delegates to win the nomination. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington.

In a carefully-worded announcement, the Clinton campaign says the New York senator will "thank her supporters and express her support for Senator Obama and party unity."

The statement does not say that Clinton will officially concede the race to the Illinois senator, a fact that leads many observers to conclude that she will likely suspend her campaign but retain the delegates she earned during the recently-concluded primary season.

Theoretically, she could reenter the race if misfortune were to strike Obama, or if something were to emerge that shook the faith of superdelegates, the party elders and elected officials that helped Obama clinch the nomination earlier this week.

In an e-mail message to supporters, Clinton noted that she has always promised to support the Democratic nominee. She said she intends "to deliver on that promise" and that she wants to "rally the party behind Senator Obama."

Since becoming the presumptive presidential nominee earlier this week, Obama has begun to focus his attention on Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee. Both candidates have begun the process of choosing a vice presidential nominee.

Polls show most voters who backed Hillary Clinton want Obama to choose her as his running mate. Several high-profile supporters of the New York Senator have expressed the same hope. Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman spoke on CBS' The Early Show.

"The best-case scenario is that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton run together as president and vice president," Wasserman said.

Some Clinton backers have gone so far as to mount a petition drive demanding Obama offer Clinton the vice presidential slot. But one prominent Clinton ally, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, thinks any effort to force Obama's hand will be counterproductive.

"You do not bargain with the presidential nominee, even if you are Hillary Clinton and you have 18 million votes. You do not bargain," Rendell said.

Interviewed by U.S. television networks Wednesday, the Illinois senator repeatedly deflected questions about his running mate selection.

"It is premature to answer [that question]. We are going to go through a process," Obama said on CBS television. "We have a committee that is going to go through all the names [of potential vice presidential picks]. It is going to be deliberate. This is an important decision."

Clinton had no public events Thursday, while Obama is holding two campaign events in Virginia, a state that unusually votes Republican in presidential contests but which the Obama campaign thinks could fall in the Democratic column this year. John McCain is spending the day in the key battleground state of Florida.

McCain is proposing that he and Obama appear at weekly joint town hall meetings across the country between now and the November election. The Obama campaign says the idea is appealing, but that many details would have to be worked out in advance.




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Senator Barack Obama has made history by becoming the first African-American to secure the presidential nomination of a major U.S. political party. To win the Democratic nomination, Obama has endured a grueling battle with Senator Hillary Clinton, the first woman to come this far in a presidential contest. Obama is now expected to take on Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, in a clash of generations and visions for the country's future. VOA Correspondent Cindy Saine reports from Washington.

Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and a white American mother from Kansas, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, made history with these words to his jubilant supporters in Saint Paul, Minnesota Tuesday.



"Because of you, tonight, I can stand here and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for the President of the United States," he said.

Obama's victory, which will not be final until the Democratic convention in August, is a true milestone, considering that racial segregation was legal in the United States until only a few decades ago. Political analyst Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia said Obama's nomination may, in fact, be unique across the world.

"Let's remember that there are very few countries in the world who have ever elected as president a member of a discriminated-against minority," he noted.

Sabato said Obama's historic victory is an achievement the United States can be proud of.

"I think it speaks to the fact that, in America you really do get an opportunity to do anything, if you have the talent and ability and you work hard enough," he added. "So, it's bound to improve the American image abroad. I think it improves the American image internally. I think Americans feel better about their country knowing, whether they are for Obama or not, that someone with his background can be in a position to become president."

If she had won the nomination, Hillary Clinton would have made history as the first woman to win the nomination of a major political party. Larry Sabato said the fact that Hillary Clinton is the wife of former President Bill Clinton may have been part of the problem for some voters, wary of having a succession of Clintons and Bushes in the White House.

"Americans had serious questions about the dynasty issue," he noted. "They wondered, even Democrats, liking the Clintons from the 1990's, wondered if it was really a good idea to give the presidency to just two families, passing it back and forth between 1989 and potentially 2017."

Howard Fineman, Newsweek magazine senior Washington correspondent, says Obama was able to defeat Clinton mainly because he tapped into a strong desire across the country for change, while Clinton emphasized her experience.

"So, the debate in the Democratic primary has really been about who is the better agent, the more convincing agent of change and the one more likely to win the election, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama," he explained. "So, it's a personality contest, but it is also one that has a deeply-rooted, fundamental concern, which is who can be the change agent."

At a time of economic uncertainly, an unpopular war in Iraq, and soaring gasoline prices, many Americans will be looking for change in November. Considering the ages of the candidates, with Obama, 46, and Republican John McCain, 71, the vote will also be about whether the country wants to usher in a new generation of leadership.

Many analysts say Obama's relative lack of experience is a legitimate issue, and one that he will have to address. Arizona Senator John McCain is a well-known and well-respected war hero, with years of foreign policy experience in the Senate. But he is expected to be challenged by the close links he has to President Bush and his support for the Iraq war, both deeply unpopular.

For her part, Hillary Clinton now faces the challenge of accepting defeat, after coming achingly close to winning. She has not conceded defeat, but will likely sit down with Obama at some point to discuss how to best heal the wounds of the long primary season and unite Democrats to face McCain in November. She has indicated she would be willing to serve as vice president, a decision that will now be made by Senator Obama.




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U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton's hopes to become the first woman elected to the White House were dashed after she failed to win enough delegates to win the Democratic Party's nomination for president. After a hard-fought and often bitter campaign against her ultimately successful rival, Senator Barack Obama, Clinton is pledging to work for party unity. US media reports Hillary Clinton will quit race by end of week, and publicly concede to Barack Obama. VOA's Deborah Tate has a profile of one of the most prominent figures in the Democratic Party.

Hillary Clinton has proved to be a tireless and resilient campaigner. Even after it became clear that she would not overtake Senator Barack Obama in the delegate count, she refused to end her campaign.

"For everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up and for everyone who works hard and never gives up this one is for you,"said Hillary Clinton.

Clinton, the two-term Senator from New York and former First Lady with the most powerful name in the Democratic party, initially was favored to win the primary contest. She began her campaign emphasizing her experience, arguing that she would be the most qualified to be president.

"After seven long years of George W. Bush, we sure are ready for a president who will be a fighter a doer and a champion for the American people again," she said.

But analysts say Clinton misjudged Democratic voters, who wanted change more than experience and voted for Obama.

Ron Walters - a political science professor at the University of Maryland - says her message did not resonate as well as Obama's.

"This is about me," said Ron Walters. "This is what I will do for you. This is about my experience, and so forth. That was a very different narrative, and the American people did not hear that narrative."

Clinton's vote to authorize military intervention in Iraq also angered the Democratic Party's liberal base.

"I have taken responsibility for my vote, but there are no do-overs in life," said Hillary Clinton. "I wish there were."

After a long and sometimes divisive primary campaign, Clinton is pledging to bring the party together.

"I'm committed to uniting our party so we move forward stronger and more ready than ever to take back the White House this November," she said.

Unless Obama picks her as his running mate, Clinton is expected to continue her work in the Senate, where she is a member of the influential Armed Services Committee.

Ron Walters says Clinton will continue to play a prominent role in politics wherever her future takes her.

"Hillary Clinton, by virtue of what she has done, attracting 17 million votes is going to be a leader in American politics, no matter what she does," he said.

And so Clinton ends another chapter in a trail-blazing career, and begins another as she continues to be a force in Democratic politics.




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Astronauts at the International Space Station have attached a $1 billion Japanese laboratory to the orbiting outpost. During a space walk Tuesday, mission specialists Michael Fossum and Ronald Garan unlocked the new Kibo laboratory from the Space Shuttle Discovery and prepared it for installation. They also helped remove an inspection boom from the station and cleaned debris from a jammed joint on a solar panel. VOA's Kent Klein reports from Washington.

Mission specialists Mike Fossum and Ron Garan left the safety of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery Tuesday to embark on the first spacewalk of this 14-day shuttle mission.

The main job for the astronauts was to unlock the largest component of the $1 billion Japanese "Kibo" laboratory from the shuttle and prepare it to be attached to the International Space Station.

The 6.5 hours set aside for the spacewalk also included time to perform repairs on a jammed joint on a solar panel.

The solar joint started showing increased vibration and power usage late last year.

During the spacewalk, U.S. mission specialist Karen Nyberg and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide were scheduled to use the station's robotic arm to remove the largest component of the lab from the shuttle's payload bay and install it on the Space Station.

"Kibo" is Japanese for "hope." In the laboratory, astronauts will be able to conduct experiments over several months, far longer than currently possible on the space shuttle, which only stays in space for about two weeks.

The first of about 100 experiments planned for Kibo are expected to start in August, including planned experiments on the influence of zero gravity and cosmic rays on organic cells over an extended period.

The U.S. space agency says the start of Tuesday's spacewalk was delayed by 50 minutes while Fossum repaired a faulty cable on his communications cap.

NASA officials also say the lift-off of Discovery on Saturday caused unprecedented damage to the launch pad, mostly to the flame trench, which helps deflect heat from the shuttle's rockets. Officials say they do not believe the shuttle was damaged by falling debris.

This spacewalk is taking place on the 43rd anniversary of the first U.S. spacewalk, by astronaut Ed White on the Gemini Four mission in 1965.




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World leaders are gathered in Rome at the headquarters of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization. They are discussing ways to deal with soaring food prices and how to improve ways to provide food to the world's hungry. The U.N. secretary-general said world food production must rise by 50 percent by 2030 to meet increasing demand. Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome.

In a speech at the start of the world food security summit in Rome the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said food production must rise by 50 percent by 2030 to meet increasing demand. He added that nations must minimize export restrictions and import tariffs at this time and quickly resolve world trade talks.

The U.N. secretary-general said action must be taken immediately.

"Today's problem will only grow larger tomorrow unless we act now today," he said. "I call on you to take bold and urgent steps to address the root causes of this global food crisis. We want the firm commitment to moving ahead."

The U.N. chief said that only if the world acts together, in partnership, can this crisis be overcome. Hundreds of millions of people, he said, expect no less.

"Nothing is more degrading than hunger, especially when it is man made," he said. "It breeds anger, social disintegration, ill health and economic decline. In the name of the development goals we all set at the millennium, the right to food, and our common humanity, I urge all of you to act together now."

World leaders are meeting for 3 days in Rome at the headquarters of the United Nations food agency, FAO, the food and agriculture organization. They are discussing ways to resolve the emergency caused by soaring food prices and how to provide more food for the world's hungry.

The Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone read out a message by Pope Benedict to delegates at the summit.

In light of the current situation, the pope said in his message, hunger and malnutrition are 'unacceptable' in a world that has enough resources. The Pope said the world has enough resources and know-how to end hunger and its consequences.

The U.N. food agency's Director-General Jacques Diouf said the time for talk is over and that action is urgently needed. He appealed to world leaders for $30 billion a year to relaunch agriculture and avert future threats of conflicts over food.

Diouf said that the structural solution to the problem of food security in the world lies in increasing production and productivity in the low-income, food-deficit countries. He said the current world food crisis has already had tragic political and social consequences in different countries and could further endanger world peace and security.




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Early rock 'n' roll guitar wizard Bo Diddley died near Jacksonville, Florida, Monday, 2 June, of heart failure. He was 79 years old. One of the most primitive of the early rockers, Bo took the blues and folk music of his native Mississippi and combined them with Latin American and African rhythms to come up with his trademark "hambone" beat. VOA's Doug Levine tells us more about the career of Bo Diddley.

Along with the legendary Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley was considered one of the most influential guitarists of the early rock era. His powerful rhythm, which became known as the "Bo Diddley beat" has been imitated by countless musicians.

Born Otha Ellas Bates in Mississippi in 1928, Bo was sent to Chicago to live with an aunt, Gussie McDaniel, who later adopted him. He dropped his first and last names to become Ellas McDaniel. His stage name Bo Diddley came from two sources; the diddley bow, an African stringed instrument, and the slang expression for a mischievous boy.

Bo studied violin at age seven and became a virtuoso. In the early-1940s, while he was in his teens, he taught himself to play guitar, drawing on the influences of jazz artist Louis Jordan and bluesman John Lee Hooker. Bo explained how he developed his trademark sound after his sister bought him his own guitar.

"I took it home and learned how to play on one string, 'When The Saints Go Marching In.' The other strings didn't make a difference," he said. "Then I accidentally tuned it one day the way that I'm tuning it now. I say I'm playing backwards. I don't play like the average guitar player, the cats [musicians] who move their fingers all around like this. I do it in chords, and basically, do almost the same thing."

At age 13, Bo Diddley became a street musician, eventually joining with others to form a street corner band. Driven by maracas, congas and bass, Bo played his infectious, hypnotic guitar phrases. When the band was ready to perform in Chicago nightclubs, he bought an electric guitar so he could get more volume. Bo attracted enough attention to get an audition with Chess Records, the same Chicago label that launched the careers of blues artists Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon, and rocker Chuck Berry.

Bo signed a recording contract with Chess in 1955, and released two songs, "Bo Diddley" and "I'm A Man." Both went to Number Two on the national R&B charts. An appearance on a nationally-televised variety show earned him a spot on a national tour. Bo's next break came in 1959 when "Say Man" appeared on the pop charts.

Bo Diddley's career had a lull until the mid-1960s, when British rock bands such as The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones, and The Animals started releasing their versions of Bo Diddley's songs. Bo said, at first, he wasn't happy about the young rock bands who "copied" his sound.

"At that time, I was a little bit upset about it because I wasn't educated to accept that, " he said. "I figured if I went and got mine [style], why shouldn't you go and get yours and leave me alone. But then, after a while I started thinking, 'Hey, that's pretty good. I must be doing something right.'"

With renewed interest in his music, Bo continued to release albums throughout the 1960s and 1970s. A series of custom-made guitars were crafted for him, which included oblong, triangular and star shapes, often covered in fur or carpet material.

Like many of the R&B performers from the 1950s and 1960s, Bo was paid a flat fee for his recordings, and said he received no royalty payments on record sales. He also said he was never paid for many of his performances.

"I am owed. I've never got paid," Bo said. Referring to concert promoters and record executives, he added, "A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun."

The ultimate honor came when Bo was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. He also had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years, he also played for the Presidents George H. W. Bush and Clinton. Diddley appreciated the honors he received, but added, "It didn't put no figures in my checkbook."

Bo continued to play in clubs and concert halls throughout the United States until being hospitalized in May 2007, following a stroke during a concert in Iowa. Three months later, Bo suffered a heart attack. The health issues affected his ability to speak. Bo later returned to his Florida home to continue his recovery.

As early as the 1950s, Bo Diddley recorded unusual jazz-flavored instrumental pieces, and experimented with sound effects that made him one of the true innovators of rock guitar.




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Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama appears set to claim his party's nomination this week, which would make him the first African American presidential candidate to be the nominee of a major U.S. political party. Senator Obama needs just 45 more delegates out of a total of 2,218 delegates required to clinch the Democratic nomination. But his opponent, Senator Hillary Clinton, continues to fight until the end, campaigning with her husband and daughter in South Dakota. VOA Correspondent Cindy Saine reports from Washington.

Senator Obama spoke Monday at a town hall meeting in Troy, Michigan, a key battleground state for the general election for the White House in November. Obama told his supporters that it has been a long, hard race for the Democratic nomination.

" I have been running for president for about 15 months now," said Barack Obama. "That is a long time. That means that there are babies that have been born and are now walking and talking since I announced that I was running for president."

Heading into the two last Democratic primaries Tuesday in South Dakota and Montana, Obama said he understands that the long nomination fight has left people wondering whether Clinton's supporters will back him in the general election against Republican Senator John McCain.

"Let me tell you something," he said. "First of all, Senator Clinton has run an outstanding race, she is an outstanding public servant, and she and I will be working together in November."

Obama did not elaborate on what he meant by "working together." There has been much speculation as to whether Obama might choose Clinton to be his vice presidential running mate, but both candidates have said it is premature to discuss the vice president's job.

Despite winning a landslide victory Sunday in the commonwealth territory of Puerto Rico, Clinton has come under increasing pressure from Democratic leaders to cede victory to Obama after the last primaries are over on Tuesday. Tom Vilsack, the former Iowa governor and a co-chairman of Clinton's campaign said after Tuesday's races Clinton "needs to acknowledge that Obama is going to be the nominee and quickly get behind him."

At her victory speech Sunday, Clinton seemed determined to keep up the fight. She pointed to her strong finish over the past month and said she is winning the popular vote. The popular vote point is debatable, depending on how the states of Florida and Michigan are counted, and because Clinton's calculation leaves out states that held caucuses instead of primaries.

Clinton plans a major rally in South Dakota Tuesday night, accompanied by her husband, former President Bill Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea. And, in a departure from her regular practice during this campaign, Clinton announced that she will be delivering her speech after Tuesday's primaries from her home base in New York.

Many analysts believe that enough superdelegates, Democratic party and elected officials who can vote as they please, will come out and endorse Obama this week, putting him over the total number of required delegates, and giving him the nomination. Observers will be watching Clinton to see how she responds.




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