VOA标准英语2010-Tea Party Offers Risks and Rewards for Re

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin addresses Tea Party supporters during a rally in the desert outside Searchlight, Nev. Saturday, 27 Mar 2010. Watch: Video report by Jim Malone Windows Media Watch: Related Farabaugh report Windows Media Grass-roots cons

VOA标准英语2010-Website of the Week - Library of Congress

More than one million searchable and browsable images Art Chimes | Washington, DC 09 April 2010 Photo: Library of Congress The Library of Congress contains a treasure trove of photographs and other images. Related Links Library of Congress Prints and

VOA标准英语2010-Kyrgyz Interim Government Has Backing of

Interim Kyrgyz leader Roza Otunbayeva meets with petitioners from a rural village inside the Defense Ministry in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which is her temporary office, 12 Apr 2010 Kyrgyzstan's interim government is trying to cut a deal with the country'

VOA标准英语2010-Songbird Genome Could Reveal Clues to Hum

New map of zebra finch DNA could provide keys to stuttering, autism and Parkinson's disease Vronique LaCapra | St. Louis, Missouri 05 April 2010 Photo: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois News Bureau The zebra finch is the first songbird to hav

VOA标准英语2010-Anti-Government Red Shirt Rallies Step up

Ron Corben | Bangkok 03 April 2010 Thai anti-government demonstrators take to the streets of downtown Bangkok, 03 Apr 2010 Key shopping malls in tourist locations in central Bangkok were closed or disrupted as anti-government protesters moved to bloc

VOA标准英语2010-Haitian Couple Reunited With Their Baby i

Roxana Romero | Miami 09 April 2010 After almost three months of legal wrangling, a Haitian couple was finally able to fly to Miami to reunite with their baby daughter. The couple feared their daughter, Jenny, had died in Haiti's devastating earthqua

VOA标准英语2010-Senegal Says It Remains Committed to Try

Senegal has said it wants all $38 million of the trial's proposed three-year budget up front, a demand the international community is reluctant to agree to, especially because Senegal has not offered a clear plan on how it will conduct the trial. Ann

VOA标准英语2010-Obama Welcomes Job Report, Says More Work

Dan Robinson | White House 02 April 2010 President Barack Obama speaks during a visit to Charlotte, N.C., 02 Apr 2010 President Barack Obama is pointing to the latest monthly U.S. government employment report saying it shows his policies are continui

VOA标准英语2010-Australia Faces Backlash Over Freeze on A

Australian Customs officers lower their life boat with Sri Lankan refugees on board as the refugees are transported from Oceanic Viking, an Australian Customs Service patrol ship, to an Australian-funded detention center in Tanjung Pinang, off the co

VOA标准英语2010-From Russia With Love for US Marines

About an hour's drive from Washington, in the state of Virginia, is the U.S. Marine Corps Base Quantico. It's the only place in the United States where American Marine officers are trained for battle. One of these Marine officers is a lieutenant who

VOA标准英语2010-Pressure Mounts on Greece to Seek Interna

Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou leaves from a meeting with Prime Minister George Papandreou in Athens, 09 Apr 2010 Greece is facing more troubling news as it tries to get its growing debt under control. Fitch Ratings, one of the world'

VOA标准英语2010-Analysts Divided Over New US Nuclear Weap

US President Barack Obama (L) shake hands with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev (R) after signing 'New START' treaty reducing long-range nuclear weapons at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic 08 Apr 2010 The United States announced this we

VOA标准英语2010-US Pressures Cuba After Hunger Strike Dea

The United States and some European nations are increasing pressure on Cuba following the death of a prominent dissident during a hunger strike. Cuban President Raul Castro first expressed regret at the death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo. But now he is f

VOA标准英语2010-Study Says Preventable Diseases Reduce US

Carol Pearson 08 April 2010 Life expectancy is rising in much of the world. But doctors are seeing another trend that is disturbing. Some people are choosing lifestyles that contribute to early death. A new U.S. study looks at four lifestyle choices

VOA标准英语2010-Apple's 'Revolutionary' iPad Goes on Sale

The tablet computer's worldwide release is expected later this month. Brian Allen | Washington 03 April 2010 Ryan Brown with his new iPad outside the Apple store in Bethesda, Maryland, 03 Apr 2010 Apple is calling its new tablet computer, the iPad, a

VOA标准英语2010-Traditional Jazz Alive and Well on 'Prese

Preservation - An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall and The Preservation Hall Music When the flood waters receded following Hurricane Katrina's direct hit on New Orleans, jazz fans around the world breathed a sigh of relief to hear that Preservation

VOA标准英语2010-Breakthrough Energizes Hunt for Sleeping

Scientists in Scotland say they may have found a new treatment for sleeping sickness, which could be ready for clinical trial within 18 months. The disease is fatal and infects around 60,000 people in Africa annually. Sleeping sickness is spread by a

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