VOA标准英语2010年-Green Packaging Replaces Petroleum-Bas

Ecocradle serves the same purpose as traditional foams when used as a packaging material. Buying a product these days often means you are getting more than you bargained for. Unwrapping your latest purchase can leave the room strewn with the cardboar

VOA标准英语2010年-Setting the Stage for Future Stars

At the Stagedoor Manor summer camp theater, kids from all over the world put on 13 full-scale productions in three weeks. Among the many specialty summer camps in the U.S. are drama camps, where youngsters learn about theater and put on a play. There

VOA标准英语2010年-Life is a Cabaret at Entertainer Boot

Instructor Tovah Feldshuh with student Nancy Gair at the International Cabaret Conference held at Yale University. The word cabaret evokes so many images singers dressed in sequins and satin, presiding over elegant nightclubs or dark, intimate rooms,

VOA标准英语2010年-Mexican Guest Workers Take Jobs Few Am

About 66,000 migrants enter the United States legally as H2B Guest Workers each year. Raquel Trejo Rubio has a job few Americans apparently want. The 28-year-old Mexican migrant picks crab meat. I came because there is no work or money in Mexico, say

VOA标准英语2010年-NYC Mosque Controversy Could Affect No

President Barack Obama hosts an Iftar dinner, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast for Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, 13 Aug 2010 President Barack Obama has become embroiled

VOA标准英语2010年-Tamil Boat People Seek Asylum in Canad

Internally displaced ethnic Tamils watch Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse during his visit to the Manik Farm refugee camp, in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka (file photo) The United Nations refugee agency reports that all 490 Tamil passengers on a cargo sh

VOA标准英语2010年-Bomber Strikes Iraqi Army Recruits, Ki

An injured man is taken a way from the scene of a suicide attack in Baghdad, Iraq, 17 Aug 2010 A suicide bomber has killed at least 61 people in an attack at an army recruitment center in Baghdad. More than 125 other people are said to have been inju

VOA标准英语2010年-Hill: Iraq 'Going in Right Direction'

Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill said Tuesday that he thinks the country is on the right track despite sporadic terrorist activity and a post-election political stalemate. The senior U.S. diplomat, soon to retire, held a farewell pre

VOA标准英语2010年-Analysts: Chavez Faces Political Test

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez salutes supporters during an event marking the 227th anniversary of the birth of Venezuela's independence hero Simon Bolivar at the National Pantheon in Caracas, 24 Jul 2010 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's near-mo

VOA标准英语2010年-Ancient Ice Helps Predict Future Warmi

More than 300 scientists from 14 countries brought their skills to the Greenland base camp over five summers. Jim White studies really old ice. He thinks it will help predict what the climate will be like in the future. White is director of the Insti

VOA标准英语2010年-Archaeologists Discover Most Valuable

Excavations at Tel Kedesh, Israel, under the auspices of the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota, have discovered a gold coin which is the oldest to date in the country. Scientists believe it was minted in Alexandria around 191 BC and

VOA标准英语2010年-Kenyan Boarding School Provides Hope f

Joseph Shiroko, founder of Brian Resource Center, communicates with a student in sign language In Kenya, educational and career opportunities are almost non-existent for people born with multiple physical challenges. They face many forms of discrimin

VOA标准英语2010-ECOWAS Official Calls for Urgent Military

A top official of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says the regional bloc is concerned about the security situation in Guinea-Bissau after mutinous soldiers briefly arrested the prime minister Thursday. Peter Clottey 01 April 20

VOA标准英语2010-International Community Pledges Billions

Firefighters, paramedics train with special equipment that accommodates heavier patients Priscilla Huff | Washington, DC 31 March 2010 This stretcher, ramp and winch system can load a patient weighing up to 680 kilograms into an ambulance. A call for

VOA标准英语2010-Some Western Workhorses Don't Eat Hay

'Horseheads' dip into the earth to make their owners a few bucks Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 31 March 2010 If you wonder why pumpjacks are sometimes called horseheads, stick a couple of ears and paint an eye on each side of this one, and you'll se

VOA标准英语2010-Former Director of Iraq National Museum R

For three days in April 2003 looters rampaged in the store rooms and galleries of Iraq's National Museum, making off with some 15,000 priceless objects. Art historians call it the desecration of civilization. Seven years ago, in the chaos that follow

VOA标准英语2010-Russia Seeks to Eliminate North Caucasus

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said it is a matter of honor for law enforcement agencies to dredge the militants out of sewer and to bring them into God's daylight. Peter Fedynsky | Moscow 31 March 2010 Cars damaged in an explosion are seen in

VOA标准英语2010-Caesarean Deliveries at All-Time High in

Vidushi Sinha | Washington 31 March 2010 Dr. Mutahar Fauzia (L) uses an ultrasound machine to check on the development of Laiqa Ahmed's unborn child Newly released data by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show an alarming incre

VOA标准英语2010-In Florida, the Cigar Trade is On a Roll

woman began wrapping tobacco leaves into cigars when she was 16. In her prime, she could produce 400 hand-rolled cigars a day. If cigars are your thing, you need to check out the city of Tampa, on Florida's west coast, along the Gulf of Mexico. Tampa

VOA标准英语2010-Sinking Island Highlights Effects of Clim

Documentaries explore lives in a warmer world Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 14 April 2010 This man ponders his fate as he looks out to Huene, an island in the Carteret bisected by the sea 20 years ago. Related Links Pulitzer Center for Crisis Repo