VOA标准英语2010年-Super Bowl Ads Cost Big Bucks, Deliver

The Super Bowl is traditionally one of the biggest television events of the year, and as a result, it is the top showcase for advertisers trying to reach the National Football League championship game's huge audience. But, the worldwide economic slow

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Reports of chaotic food handouts, Monday, highlight the difficult conditions survivors face as many continue their search for the dead, mourn those they have lost and struggle to meet their basic needs of food and water. William Ide | Washington 26 J

VOA标准英语2010年-Sri Lanka President Declared Re-Electe

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at his official residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 27 Jan 2010 (photograph released by the Sri Lankan President's office) Sri Lanka has declared President Mahinda Rajapaksa the victor over his former top general,

VOA标准英语2010年-Britain Hosts Meeting on Yemen With Un

International focus has again shifted to Yemen after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day. Sonja Pace | London 27 January 2010 Britain is hosting a one-day meeting on Yemen with ministers and senior officia

VOA标准英语2010年-Legendary Journalist Celebrates 50 Yea

Related Links The White House Award-winning journalist Helen Thomas has been covering Washington politics for more than 60 years. In 1961, she became the first woman to cover the White House during President John F. Kennedy's administration and has r

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says some members of the international press 'misconstrued' her country's military and civilian response to provide aid to Haitians who desperately need it Barry Newhouse | Port-au-Prince, Haiti 26 January 2010

VOA标准英语2010年-Desperate for News, Haitian-Americans

Readers and listeners turn to community newspapers and radio for a crucial link to loved ones Adam Phillips | New York 26 January 2010 Related Links Radio Soleil d'Hait Haiti Observateur (newspaper) Radio Panou Haitian Times Voice of America Creole S

VOA标准英语2010年-Britain to Host International Conferen

Britain hosts a one-day international conference on Afghanistan this week to try to forge a common strategy to improve security, good governance and development in the war-torn south Asian nation. There is growing concern about deteriorating conditio

VOA标准英语2010年-Non-binding Copenhagen Agreement Facin

Negotiators at the climate summit in Copenhagen last month failed to agree on a new climate change treaty to replace the current Kyoto Protocol before it expires in 2012. Jonathan Lash is president of World Resources Institute, an environmental polic

VOA标准英语2010年-African Banks Decrease Lending to Priv

In the early stages of the global recession, many African bankers and analysts dismissed the decline as a western issue. Their assumptions were based on the fact that most African financial institutions, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, were not par

VOA标准英语2010年-Africans Dealing With Harsh Realities

The global financial crisis is said to be the worst since the Great Depression. It has contributed to the failure of key businesses and declines in consumer wealth in Africa and other parts of the developing world. In sub-Saharan Africa, there has be

VOA标准英语2010年-A Look at This Year's Grammy Award Jaz

Guitarist Mike Stern has been nominated six times for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, but he's never won the coveted trophy. Perhaps Mike will break the spell once and for all with his album Big Neighborhood, featuring the track 6th

VOA标准英语2010年-New Audits Cite Lax Oversight of US Co

The U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction has criticized the State Department for its management of nearly $3 billion in contracts and grants in Iraq. In two reports, auditors cited weak and ineffective State Department oversight of

VOA标准英语2010年-Grammy Preview: Rock, Pop, and Rhythm

Taylor Swift could do no wrong in 2009. Not only did the young Pennsylvania native have the year's best-selling album with Fearless, she also earned Artist Of The Year plaudits from Billboard magazine. Her public standing was further bolstered in Sep

VOA标准英语2010年-US Missionary Still Missing in North K

It was exactly one month ago that American Christian activist Robert Park made his illegal crossing into North Korea. His fate still remains all but completely unknown to his friends and family. A close associate of Robert Park says more than 2,000 p

VOA标准英语2010年-Obama at Political Turning Point as Ma

U.S. President Barack Obama appears to be at a political turning point as he prepares to deliver the annual State of the Union Address on Wednesday before a Joint Session of Congress and a national television audience. The recent Republican victory i

VOA标准英语2010年-Obama Puts Economic Focus on the Middl

U.S. President Barack Obama is shifting his economic focus to the middle class. His State of the Union address Wednesday will detail a series of initiatives to help middle-income families. President Obama spent his first year in office trying to prev

VOA标准英语2010年-These Clowns are Funny – Some of the

Part of a rodeo clown's job is deadly serious Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 25 January 2010 In small towns across the American West, a favorite form of entertainment is the rodeo. It's a show and competition in which modern-day cowboys ride bucking

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After more than a week of reporting on the earthquake from Port-au-Prince, a team of VOA journalists traveled south of the capital to see how people in other parts of Haiti are surviving. Jeff Swicord reports along the road to Jacmel, a beach town so

VOA标准英语2010年-Haitians Near Quake Epicenter Still Ta

Coastal town of Carrefour, 15 km west of capital, has received little assistance from foreign aid groups or the government Barry Newhouse | Carrefour, Haiti 25 January 2010 A family in the destroyed town of Carrefour, Haiti sits amid the charred rubb