VOA标准英语2010年-Want Just a Bite to Eat at the Amana C

You'd probably want to eat one of each of these desserts from the Ox Inn, but it's doubtful you'd have room after endless earlier helpings of food. In the Midwest state of Iowa, not far from the Mississippi River, there's a cluster of seven villages

VOA标准英语2010年-Service Dogs Help War Wounded

New film highlights unique relationship, PTSD, mental illness David Byrd | Washington, DC 18 May 2010 The U.S. military uses dogs to help troops on sentry duty and bomb-sniffing patrols. But dogs are also proving their worth off the field of battle b

VOA标准英语2010年-Self-Described 'Farm Wife' Becomes Pol

Lynn Henning samples water for pollution from the large livestock farms near her home in rural Michigan. Lynn Henning samples the waters for pollution from the large livestock farms near her home in rural Michigan. But it's not her job. I have no che

VOA标准英语2010年-UN Looking for Ways to Keep Girls in S

At the week-long conference, participants are focusing on three primary roadblocks to getting and keeping girls in school: violence, poverty and the poor quality of education. Scholars, aid workers, and government officials from 22 countries are in D

VOA标准英语2010年-Student Chefs Cook Up Healthy Lunches

Young cooks challenged to produce nutritious tasty meals for 10,000 Shelley Schlender | Louisville, Colorado 19 May 2010 Known as the Renegade Lunch Lady, Chef Ann Cooper arranged the student chef competition. The popular TV cooking competition, Iron

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Scientists race against time to train people to de-oil birds Nathan King | Dauphin Island, Alabama 19 May 2010 As oil from that major spill in the Gulf of Mexico reaches land, scientists are in a race against time. Just off the Alabama coast, on Daup

VOA标准英语2010年-Jennifer Glasse 20 May 2010

Senator Arlen Specter gives his concession speech to supporters on stage with his wife Joan Specter, center, and son Shanin Specter, right, in Philadelphia, 18 May 2010 American voters appear to have taken out their anger and frustration at Washingto

VOA标准英语2010年-Obama Hails Draft Resolution for Iran

President Barack Obama and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon hold a joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, 19 May 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama says he is pleased the United States has reached an agreement with

VOA标准英语2010年-Study Urges US to Push Mideast Allies

Report finds US often puts security interests ahead of Mideast democracy Mohamed Elshinnawi | Washington, DC 19 May 2010 A soldier and citizen at a security checkpoint in Yemen, one of the countries the study's authors believe should be urged to inst

VOA标准英语2010年-German Ban on Risky Investments Rattle

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts after she addresses the parliament in Berlin, 19 May 2010 Germany's decision this week to ban speculative short selling of certain types of financial instruments has rattled financial markets around the world, f

VOA标准英语2010年-Russian Protesters Don Their Own 'Blue

Hundreds of Muscovites have been strapping blue buckets to the roofs of their cars to mock the flashing blue lights that allow senior bureaucrats to drive into oncoming traffic and break the rules that everyone else has to obey Russian lawmakers are

VOA标准英语2010年-Sahel Food Security Depends on Reinves

Women wait to receive baby food in southern Niger, during the launch of a UN-backed feeding operation aimed at fighting malnutrition among young children, (File) Ending the cycle of hunger in Africa's Sahelian region means reinvesting in local agricu

VOA标准英语2010年-Amnesty International Condemns Arrest

A Sudanese man holds three archive copies of 'Rai al-Shaab' newspaper which was confiscated, 16 May 2010. Amnesty International has urged Sudanese authorities to end their crackdown on freedom of expression, following the arrest of four employees of

VOA标准英语2010年-Taliban Militants Attack Bagram Airbas

U.S soldiers wait after collecting the body of an insurgent from a vineyard near the Bagram airbase after insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault against the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, in Bagram, Afghanistan. At least 10 insurgents have b

VOA标准英语2010年-Antibiotic Resistance Called Growing T

Vidushi Sinha | Washington, DC 18 May 2010 The World Health Organization calls antibiotic resistance one of the three greatest threats to human health. Experts fear antibiotic resistance puts humans in danger of becoming nearly defenseless against so

VOA标准英语2010年-'Iron Man 2' Kicks Off 'Summer' Movie

The 'summer' movie season is starting with a bang: the sequel to a 2008 blockbuster that brings back Robert Downey, Jr. in the dual roles of billionaire playboy and rocket-powered super-hero leaping from the pages of Marvel Comics; and there are new

VOA标准英语2010年-US Approves New Prostate Cancer Treatm

African Maternal and Child Mortality Rate Remains High Despite Improvements Elsewhere Doctors are calling it a milestone. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind prostate cancer treatment. It is not a cure, but it can ext

VOA标准英语2010年-Same-Sex Weddings are Big Business in

Surge in ceremonies brings economic opportunity to Washington, DC merchants Penelope Poulou | Washington, DC 30 April 2010 Cuc and Gwen were among the first gay couples to tie the knot the day same sex marriage became legal in Washington D.C. The gay

VOA标准英语2010年-US Economy Grows by 3.2 Percent

President Barack Obama, accompanied by small business employers and employees, speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House, 30 Apr 2010 The U.S. economy grew in the first three months of this year, but more slowly than at the end of last year. Pre

VOA标准英语2010年-Clinton: Middle East 'Proximity Talks'

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to the American Jewish Committee Annual gala dinner in Washington, 29 Apr 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell will return to the region next week