VOA标准英语2010年-Bill Clinton to Lead UN Jobs Program f

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has agreed to lead a U.N. program that will offer jobs to Haitian youth as part of the clean-up and recovery following last week's earthquake. Last spring U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asked Mr. Clinton to beco

VOA标准英语2010年-Former US Secretary of State Haig Dead

Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig pauses in thought prior to a panel discussion with other former Secreatries of State entitled The Annual Report of the Secretaries of State at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery, Ala., on Friday, S

VOA标准英语2010年-Former High School Backs Supreme Court

Students at New York's Hunter College express pride in Elena Kagan Adam Phillips | New York 11 May 2010 Photo: Hunter College High School Yearbook Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in the 1977 yearbook at Manhattan's Hunter College High School. Presi

VOA标准英语2010年-Fish 'Cell Phones' Track Marine Life

A unique array of underwater listening devices stretches 3,000 kilometers along the west coast of North America to track marine life along the continental shelf. It's like giving fish a cell phone, says Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) executive d

VOA标准英语2010年-Hollywood Leans Toward More Natural Lo

Mention Hollywood, and most people think of glamour: beautiful women with smooth, flawless skin and perfectly aligned white teeth, men with trim athletic bodies. But much of that look is artificial: breast implants, Botox-treated faces, collagen-inje

VOA标准英语2010年-Guam Braces for Military Buildup

Residents on the Pacific island of Guam are bracing for big changes. Four years from now, the U.S. military plans to transfer thousands of Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa. The move is part of a larger military realignment in the region an

VOA标准英语2010年-UN Aid Groups Cite Progress in Haiti

United Nations aid agencies report they are making progress in getting crucial relief to hundreds of thousands of survivors of Haiti's devastating earthquake. The agencies say they are increasing efforts to try to reach people in areas outside the ca

VOA标准英语2010-Easton Corbin Stays True to Traditional C

It's not every day when a new singer earns comparisons to the King of Country George Strait. But, that is what's happening to newcomer, Easton Corbin. Corbin's debut single, A Little More Country Than That, reached Number One on the Country chart. Al

VOA标准英语2010年-Celebrations in Australia, Asia Ring I

Photo: AP Fireworks flash over Sydney Opera House during New Year celebrations, 01 Jan 2010 Starting at the International Date line in the mid-Pacific and spreading from east to west, crowds around Asia led the world in ringing in the New Year. One o

VOA标准英语2010年-America's Mixed-Race Kids Examine Thei

At least seven million Americans identify themselves as belonging to more than one race, and interest is rapidly growing in issues of multi-racial identity. In his new book, Mixed, writer and artist Kip Fulbeck presents a collection of portraits cele

VOA标准英语2010年-Student Symphony Soars

Aspiring young musicians explore their talents outside of school Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 14 May 2010 The Student Symphonic Orchestra of Fairfax, which students formed on their own outside of school, just celebrated its first anniversary. Class

VOA标准英语2010年-AIDS Advocacy Group says UN Has Failed

An international HIV/AIDS advocacy group says the United Nations has failed the women of the Democratic Republic of Congo. AIDS-Free World says it's time for the U.N. to stop passing resolutions on the Congo and take action. The estimated number of r

VOA英语2010年-Saber Rattling Leaves Korean Peninsula on Ed

The scenes of homes ablaze on a South Korean island in late November - from a North Korean artillery attack - stunned and angered this country. South Korea later staged a live-fire artillery exercises, prompting a renewed warning from Pyongyang. The

VOA标准英语2010年-Website of the Week — C-SPAN Video L

More than two decades of Washington events, unedited and uncut Art Chimes | Washington, DC 26 March 2010 Related Links C-SPAN Video Archive Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. This

VOA标准英语2010-Rape In DRC Reaches Alarming Levels

The United Nations refugee agency says it is alarmed at the large numbers of women who continue to be victims of rape and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The UNHCR says more than one third of recorded cases of rape, in the

VOA标准英语2010年-Russian Fires Spark Anger at Governmen

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sits in the cabin of a Russian firefighting aircraft Be-200 during the firefighting effort in Rayzan region some 250 km outside Moscow, 10 Aug 2010 After 25,000 wildfires, some Russians are starting to place som

VOA标准英语2010年-Farmers in Asia Turn to Machines, Wate

Demand for higher productivity has pushed farmers in Asia to let go of the water buffalo as a farming tool. Today, governments and investors are finding ways to expand the iconic beast of burden's role on the farm. Millions of farmers in Southeast As

VOA标准英语2010年-Uneven Progress in Reducing Global Mat

Experts blame the lack of progress in maternal and child health on a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and midwives in the affected countries. Many countries with the highest mother and child death rates continue to fall short, a decade after pledgi

VOA标准英语2010年-Dutch Government Collapses Over Afghan

The Dutch coalition government has collapsed amid a political row over whether to extend the country's military mission in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende was due to submit his government's resignation to Queen Beatrix later Saturday

VOA标准英语2010年-Colombia's Bike Paths Spawn Sunday Rit

Every Sunday, more than a million people in Bogota join what has become a weekly ritual: congregating on the city's main roads temporarily turned into a network of bike paths known as the Ciclovia. In a city of seven million people, Sunday mornings a