VOA标准英语2009年-First Kurdish Film Festival in US Showcase

By Carolyn Weaver New York 27 October 2009 Organizers call it a cinema across borders, the first-ever festival of Kurdish film in the United States. The films chosen for the five-day event at New York University focused on a people widely dispersed,

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VOA标准英语2009年-San Francisco Tries New Health Program for

By Rachel Silverman San Francisco, CA 27 October 2009 According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than 46 million people in the United States had no health insurance coverage last year. While the nation struggles with reforming health care, one

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VOA标准英语2009年-US Government Says No Social Security Bene

By Jeff Swicord Washington 27 October 2009 For the first time in 30 years, Social Security recipients in the United States will not receive an annual adjustment in benefits. More than 52 million older Americans depend on Social Security for all or p

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VOA标准英语2009年-Works of Art Created From A Dump In San Fr

By Monaliza Noormohammadi San Francisco 27 October 2009 A disposal company in San Francisco takes trash very seriously. For more than 15 years it has invited selected artists to create works of art out of the trash San Franciscans throw away. The ar

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VOA标准英语2009年-Obama Unveils $3.4B Plan to Update US Ener

By Kent Klein White House 27 October 2009 President Barack Obama speaks during his tour of the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Florida, 27 Oct 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama says the government will spend $3.4 billion to upd

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VOA标准英语2009年-Largest US Solar Energy Plant Comes on Lin

By Brian Wagner Miami 27 October 2009 President Barack Obama speaks during his tour of the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Florida, 27 Oct 2009 President Barack Obama traveled to Florida on Tuesday to help unveil the nation's

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VOA标准英语2009年-UN Special Rapporteur Questions Legality o

By Margaret Besheer United Nations 27 October 2009 Air Force MQ-9 Reaper takes off from Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, 13 March 2009 The U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings says the use of armed unmanned aircraft by the United States

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VOA标准英语2009年-Scottish Investigators Review Case of 1988

By Jennifer Glasse London 27 October 2009 A memorial stone for the victims of Pan-Am flight 103 iin a garden of remembrance near the village of Lockerbie, Scotland, Nov. 2008 Scottish police have just announced they are looking into evidence surroun

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VOA标准英语2009年-American Workforce Getting Older, Working

By Steve Mort Orlando, Florida 28 October 2009 The American workforce is getting grayer. And the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the number of workers between 65 and 74 years old will grow by more than 80 percent between 2006 and 2016.

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VOA标准英语2009年-US: Support for Iran Reformist, Democracy

By Dan Robinson Washington 28 October 2009 A senior State Department official has told Congress that the United States is not lessening its support for reformers in Iran and U.S.-based organizations supporting them. Assistant Secretary of State for

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VOA标准英语2009年-US Defends Cuba Policy Amid UN Condemnatio

By David Gollust The State Department 28 October 2009 The Obama administration on Wednesday defended the long-running U.S. economic embargo against Cuba in the face of another overwhelming U.N. General Assembly vote condemning American policy toward

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VOA标准英语2009年-Obama Signs $680 Billion Defense Bill

By Kent Klein White House 28 October 2009 From left: Vice President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, 28 Oct 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama has signed into law a $680 billion defense bill, which he says will sav

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VOA标准英语2009年-Obama Signs Expanded Hate Crimes Law

By Paula Wolfson White House 28 October 2009 President Barack Obama speaks after enactment of the Matthew Sheppard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crime Prevention Act in the East Room of the White House, 29 Oct 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama has signed

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VOA标准英语2009年-Obama Honors African-American Senate Trail

By Paula Wolfson White House 28 October 2009 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (l), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama, present the Congressional Gold Medal to former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke on Capitol Hill in Washington,

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VOA标准英语2009年-NASA Tests Rocket for Planned Moon, Mars M

By Brian Wagner Miami 28 October 2009 The Ares I-X flight test vehicle lifts off from Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 28 Oct 2009 NASA launched an unmanned test rocket on Wednesday in the hopes it will become the backbo

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VOA标准英语2009年-Renowned Conservationist Improves Lives of

By Julie Taboh Washington 28 October 2009 British primatologist Jane Goodall spent almost half-a-century studying the wild chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Her ground-breaking discoveries have contributed much of what we know about th

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VOA标准英语2009年-Roof Top Gardening is a Growing Trend in N

By Paige Kollock New York 28 October 2009 New York City New York is a city notoriously short on space, but also one whose residents are big on innovation. In the Big Apple, the latest trend is rooftop farming. Individuals and restaurants are beginni

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VOA标准英语2009年-Color Lithographs Illustrate 19th Century

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 28 October 2009 Technology can bring lasting change to society, and one change it brought in the 19th century was the widespread use of color in art and commerce. A printing process known as lithography began in German

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VOA标准英语2009年-Scientists Embark on Expeditions to Study

By Lisa Bryant Paris 28 October 2009 Map of Madagascar European and African scientists are embarking on two major expeditions to take stock of the biodiversity in little known areas of Mozambique and Madagascar. The projects focus on areas considere

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VOA标准英语2009年-Professional American Football Returns to

By Tom Rivers London 28 October 2009 American professional football returned to the heartland of soccer a few days ago, as the New England Patriots faced the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the hallowed turf of London's Wembley stadium. For the third year i

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