VOA标准英语2010年-US Consumer Spending Up Slightly Amid

The U.S. Commerce Department says consumer spending rose more than expected in January, up half a percent. Analysts say it's another indication that the U.S. economy is on track to climb out of the worst recession since the 1930s. But while consumer

VOA标准英语2010年-400-Year-Old Bonsai Survived Hiroshima

Bonsai tree in U.S. National Arboretum Sixty five years ago, during World War II, a B-29 bomber known as the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Among the survivors was a

VOA标准英语2010年-Hitting the Road and Staying at Home -

America is full of vacation lodges . . . on wheels! They are known as motor homes - literally kitchens, living rooms, and beds on the move across America. There are more than 1.5 million of these self-propelled rolling dwellings in the United States.

VOA标准英语2010-Hollywood Rediscovers Ancient Greek Mytho

Sam Worthington as Perseus in Clash of the Titans Hollywood has rediscovered ancient Greek mythology with its gods and monsters, muscular men with shields and swords and the hero's quest to save humanity in the 2010 version of Clash of the Titans: Wi

VOA标准英语2010年-Meth Still Grips, But Doesn't Strangle

Raw anti-drug campaign awakens state Ted Landphair | Missoula, Montana 04 February 2010 Photo: Montana Meth Project Adults across Montana were frightened by what they were seeing. Some hardly recognized their meth-addled teenagers. Related Links Mont

VOA标准英语2010-Poland Mourns President

Besides the presidential couple, all other people on board the plane reportedly died, including the country's army chief, its deputy foreign minister, the Central Bank governor and scores of other officials, legislators and crew members. Stefan Bos |

VOA标准英语2010年-Bike Lanes Open on America's Main Stre

Bike lanes opened recently on Pennsylvania Avenue, the wide boulevard that runs from the White House to the US Capitol. They were painted several weeks ago on Pennsylvania Avenue, the wide boulevard that runs from the White House to the U.S. Capitol.

VOA标准英语2010年-Distillery in East Anglia Making Engli

For the first time in more than a century, whiskey is being distilled in England, at a new company in Norfolk in the southeast of the country. In the British countryside of Norfolk, they're cooking up something they haven't made here for more than 10

VOA标准英语2010年-WFP Ends Food Aid to 1 Million Somalis

The World Food Program is pulling its operations out of much of rebel-controlled Somalia, affecting some 1 million in-need Somalis. The food aid organization is citing unacceptable demands from the Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab that reached a br

VOA标准英语2010年-New Device, New Studies Hold Out Hope

The device is a tiny sensor, implanted through a catheter in the heart's pulmonary artery. The procedure takes just seven minutes. The patient passes a wand over his chest, collecting data on heart pressure. That data is sent electronically to the do

VOA标准英语2010年-Little Town in Mississippi Draws a Cro

Photo: cloudsoup, Flickr Creative Commons Elvis's birth home is now nicely painted, and it looks a lot nicer than the days when Elvis's father could not afford to make bank payments on it The King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley, was born 75 years ag

VOA标准英语2010年-Space Shuttle Endeavour Heads to Inter

Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts-off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, 08 Feb 2010 The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida before dawn, bound for the Inte

VOA标准英语2010-Brain Scans Find Consciousness in Some Ve

For more than two decades a Belgian man named Rom Houben was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state, following a car accident. Then doctors discovered through a brain scan that he was conscious and possessed normal brain function. At first it se

VOA标准英语2010年-Traveling Executive Fires People And M

Alan Silverman | Hollywood 04 January 2010 Jason Reitman, writer-director of the 2007 hit Juno, teams up with screen star George Clooney for a bittersweet comedy about a traveling business executive and his job of firing people at companies caught in

VOA标准英语2010年-On the Road Again - and Again and Agai

In the 1930s the era of streamliner trains, planes, and automobiles a travel trailer with a shiny aluminum skin made its debut. Its very name Airstream suggested smooth, aerodynamic travel. Many people who bought these shiny little trailers loved to

VOA标准英语2010年-Settlers Protest West Bank Constructio

Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS Jewish settlers participate in a protest against the Israeli government decision to freeze settlement construction in the West Bank, outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, 3 Jan 2010 Jewish settlement councils have

VOA标准英语2010年-HIV/AIDS Care Giving Takes Toll

In Botswana, community-based home care is the preferred method of assisting people living with HIV/AIDS. However, a study shows many of the caregivers are suffering economically and emotionally as a result. Botswana has a small population, about two

VOA标准英语2010-Climate Hastened Collapse of Angkor, Capi

Scientist uses tree rings to reconstruct 13th century climate Art Chimes | Washington, DC 05 April 2010 Photo: Photos.com Related Links: Angkor paper (full text) Buckley lab We started seeing these big, giant periods of drought that took place around

VOA标准英语2010-Thailand's Tourism Industry Falls Victim

Anti-government protesters take camp in a main commercial shopping district causing shops and businesses to close down where they have occupied for more than a week in Bangkok, Thailand, 11 Apr 2010 An industry association warns Thailand's tourism bu

VOA标准英语2010年-Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Fishermen's L

McAnespy brothers fear their way of life will not return Jeff Swicord | Port Sulphur, Louisiana 04 May 2010 Louis McAnespy is a third-generation commercial fishermen from Louisiana who fears he will lose his livelihood due to the fishing ban imposed