VOA标准英语2010年-What does it Mean to be Human?

Multi-media website explores human evolution Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 07 May 2010 'What's Hot in Human Origins' keeps you up-to-date on recent studies and research in the field. The human origins website at www.humanorgins.si.edu poses the ag

VOA标准英语2010年-Haitians Grieve for the Loss of Loved

Several hundred people attended a Mass at St. Camillus Catholic Church in Silver Spring, Maryland to support grieving Haitians and provide words of support and comfort. Donald Wuerl is the Archbishop of Washington. We simply wanted to be here, so tha

VOA标准英语2010年-Movie Theater Construction Booming in

As China's middle class grows, the demand for entertainment is being met with a boom in cinema construction. In a country where 300 million people are said to be able to afford movie tickets and where many want to see films like Avatar in new plush m

VOA标准英语2010年-Influential American Novel Turns 50

It's been 50 years since the classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published. Set in a fictional town in the American South in the 1930s, Mockingbird is one of the best-loved books in the United States. Its story of a failed quest for racial just

VOA标准英语2010年-Preparations for Football World Cup Mo

It is four months until the kick-off of the first football World Cup in Africa and preparations in South Africa are moving into high gear. Billions of dollars worth of improvements to the country's infrastructure have already been completed while oth

VOA标准英语2010年-Kabul Factory Gearing Up to Make Boots

Afghan factory workers make preparations to manufacture boots at the Milli Factory in Kabul, Afghanistan Milli Boot Factory in Kabul could be a model for the future of Afghanistan. Its owners have invested millions of dollars developing a sturdy boot

VOA标准英语2010年-Coral Reefs Breed New Species, Fossil

When we lose reefs, we lose basically the cradles of evolution in the oceans. Wolfgang Kiessling A new study out this week highlights the role that coral reefs play in evolution, adding another reason to preserve these delicate, diverse, and often be

VOA标准英语2010年-Israeli Group Calls for Lifting of Gaz

Demonstrators hold a sign against the blockade of the Gaza Strip near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, 31 May 2010 As the United Nations considers investigating this week's Israeli ship raid Arab leaders are calling for end

VOA标准英语2010年-Scores Killed in South Sudan Raid

A group of Nuer tribesmen in South Sudan's Warrap state reportedly slaughtered 139 Dinka and stole thousands of heads of cattle. An unknown number of Nuer raiders were also killed in the attack. The deadly attack took place earlier this week, but rep

VOA标准英语2010年-Sri Lankan President Woos Tamils

The Sri Lankan president is promising to speed up reconstruction of Tamil-dominated areas of the country, which have been devastated by civil war. The pledge comes as the country heads into the January 26 presidential election, in which the minority

VOA标准英语2010年-Survey: Africa 'Bleakest' in Freedom

African Union Official Hopes for a More Peaceful and Democratic Continent in 2010 The U.S. human rights monitoring group Freedom House says Africa ranks as the bleakest region in a bleak year in terms of political rights and civil liberties in 2009.

VOA标准英语2010年-Iraqi Candidates Make Appeals Across R

The prayers from a Sunni mosque carry through the streets of this Baghdad neighborhood ... competing with or, perhaps, complementing the prayers from a Shi'ite mosque nearby. Above both comes the heavy beat of military helicopters, patrolling the cit

VOA标准英语2010年-Catching Life's Perfect Wave

Author Peter Heller says learning to surf taught him a valuable lesson about catching the perfect wave in life. What followed was a six-month odyssey of catching waves along the Pacific coast, during which Heller learned lessons not only about surfin

VOA标准英语2010年-Obama, Republicans Get Mixed Reviews i

New public opinion polls show that President Barack Obama and both major U.S. political parties face a challenging political climate in the months ahead. Two recent surveys - one by ABC News and The Washington Post newspaper, the other by the Gallup

VOA标准英语2010-Thai PM Calls for Investigations Over Pro

Meanwhile, anti-government protesters in Bangkok have rejected talk of negotiations as they continue their occupation of key areas in the Thai capital -- the main shopping area and the city's historic district. Ron Corben | Bangkok 11 April 2010 An a

VOA标准英语2010年-Analysts Say US Vice President's Iraq

Earlier this week in Baghdad, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden urged Iraq's political leaders to end their differences and form a government. Four months after Iraq's parliamentary elections, the country remains in a political deadlock after no party re

VOA标准英语2010年-British Prime Minister Promises to Res

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he will resign by September. Observers say the decision eases the way for his Labor Party to stay in power in a possible coalition government, following last week's indecisive election. No party won a majority

VOA标准英语2010年-Students Try to Save Slave Island in S

Students heading for Bunce Island, Sierra Leone Some former slave ports in Africa are now tourist destinations, but not Bunce Island in Sierra Leone. It's abandoned and its slave castle is in ruins. The British established Bunce Island as a slave por

VOA标准英语2010年-South Africa Sends Search, Rescue Team

South Africa is sending a team of search and rescue specialists to Haiti in response to the devastating earthquake on Tuesday. It is the first of several teams being sent by a local civic group. The head of South Africa's Gift of the Givers Foundatio

VOA标准英语2010年-Untold Numbers Still Trapped in Rubble

As untold numbers lay dead and or buried in the rubble of Haiti's worst earthquake ever, the impoverished nation is calling on the world to help. It was a nation already vulnerable, the poorest in the Western hemisphere, with a history of lax constru