VOA双语新闻：美国越来越多的人有偿照顾自家老人

Millions of Americans are looking after an older family member. A survey a few years ago put the value of family care-giving at $375 billion a year. And while care-giving has traditionally been something family members do for their elders, a growing

VOA双语新闻：动荡后的巴林经济前景不明

Fragile stability appears to be returning to Bahrain following anti-government protests that recently brought the Persian Gulf kingdom to a standstill. However, analysts say economic uncertainty is likely to linger on. 近期发生的反政府抗议活

VOA双语新闻：美国采取措施加强食品安全

More steps are being taken to improve U.S. food safety. The Agriculture Department unveiled new regulations April 5 that would force meat and poultry companies to delay shipments to consumers until government inspectors get results of products they h

VOA双语新闻：日本数千民众上街抗议核电站

Thousands of Japanese took to the streets of Tokyo to protest the country's nuclear-power plants. The rally occured as engineers continue to work on bringing the Fukushima Daiichi plant under control, after it was smashed by last month's earthquake a

VOA双语新闻：虚构人物神探陈查理及其原型

The fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan was the subject of popular books and movies for many decades. In recent years, however, the character has been criticized as a stereotyped caricature of Asian-Americans. 几十年来，一位虚构的

VOA双语新闻：世行-IMF春季会议在华盛顿举行

Conflict, unsustainable government debt and the need for new ways to tackle global challenges in a post-crisis era are among the key issues as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund gear up for the groups' Spring meeting in Washington next we

VOA双语新闻：美国中央情报局在利比亚的工作

Published reports say CIA officers are at work inside Libya. But just what they are doing is not clear and, in keeping with practice, the CIA would not comment on the reports. The Obama administration has said it has not yet decided whether to arm th

VOA双语新闻：手工制作马鞍，巾帼不让须眉

Nancy Martiny has made it in a man's world. She started making western saddles as a hobby but there's now a three-year waiting list of people lined up to buy her designs. 南西马蒂尼开始制作马鞍时，只是为了兴趣。而现在，要买她

VOA双语新闻：美政府补贴玉米乙醇产业遭批评

Ninety organizations are calling for an end to the $6 billion-dollar-a-year subsidy that encourages the production of ethanol biofuel from maize in the United States. 批评者要求停止对玉米提炼乙醇产业每年60亿美元的鼓励性津贴。

VOA双语新闻 - 美鼓励私企参与外援项目

Private businesses are being encouraged to assume a greater role in development efforts as part of the Obama administration's agricultural development initiative. Food prices are at record highs, and experts are sounding alarms about the potential fo

VOA双语新闻 - 美国民权运动先驱瑟古德·马歇尔

Thurgood Marshall is perhaps best known as the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court, where he served from 1967 to 1991. But he had a long history of working for justice. As an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement o

VOA双语新闻 - 探索外星生命的美国人德雷克

Space aliens and extraterrestrials have long been popular subjects of Hollywood movies and science fiction literature. But the idea of intelligent life in outer space is no longer limited to fiction. 外星人和天外来客长期以来一直是好莱坞

VOA双语新闻 - 心脏搭桥术使用人造血管的前景

Scientists say they have successfully tested artificial blood vessels grown in the laboratory. In a heart bypass operation, surgeons typically remove a vein from a patient's leg and use it to replace blocked arteries that feed the muscles of the hear

VOA双语新闻 - 美预算之争反映对政府角色不同看

In U.S. politics, there is no issue that divides Democrats and Republicans more than their vastly different views on the role and size of the central government. That political divide is at the heart of the intensifying debate over the federal budget

VOA双语新闻 - 耶鲁大学学生合唱团建团150周年

American universities inherited a choral tradition from England where, centuries ago, student choruses gathered to sing songs with different vocal parts known as glees. Today, dozens of U.S. colleges have glee clubs - a cappella choruses open to stud

VOA双语新闻-中学生应当如何应对欺凌行为

Bullies - especially aggressively hostile girls - are a topic of major interest to Rosalind Wiseman. 欺凌霸王，特别是具有侵犯性敌视行为的女孩子，这是教育家罗萨琳德怀斯曼关心的主题。 In her non-fiction best-sell

VOA双语新闻 - 雷纳德为废物着迷

Annie Leonard has dedicated herself to changing America's throw-away culture. The Berkeley, California resident has been obsessed with stuff for more than 20 years - both good stuff that is thrown out and toxic stuff that poisons the planet and its p

VOA双语新闻 - 小时自控能力差 成人之后问题多

From a very early age, some children exhibit better self-control than others. Now, a new study has tracked how low self control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years. 有些孩子在很小的时候就表

VOA双语新闻 - 埃及因素让其他国家考虑粮价问题

Many developing countries are closely watching the role escalating food prices is playing in the turmoil in North Africa. 很多粮价不断上涨的其他发展中国家都在密切关注埃及局势，并考虑对策。 Government repression, corru

VOA双语新闻 - 美国人物：心脏医学先驱斯塔尔

Cardiac medicine has made tremendous strides since the 1950s, when surgeons placed the first experimental artificial valves in the human heart. 外科医生1950年代首次在人类心脏里植入了试验性的人造瓣膜。心脏医学自那以来取