VOA标准英语2010年-Invasive Asian Carp Harm Commercial Fi

Commerical fisherman Chad Isaak and a partner haul in a boatload of invasive Asian Carp, Jul 2010 The multi-billion-dollar commercial fishing industry in the Great Lakes region of the United States employs more than 800,000 people, but is threatened

VOA标准英语2010年-WHO Has New Advice to Prevent Mother-t

HIV positive mothers can receive antiretroviral drugs to protect against transmitting the virus to their children Although it is preventable, each year some 400,000 infants acquire HIV from their mothers. The World Health Organization, or WHO, has re

VOA标准英语2010年-US: Antibiotic Use in Livestock Harms

Animals in many large livestock-raising operations around the world get a small but steady dose of certain antibiotics in their feed. U.S. health officials say there is unequivocal evidence of a link between overuse of antibiotics in healthy livestoc

VOA标准英语2010年-PEPFAR to Train Thousands of African H

The success of PEPFAR the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief depends in large part on healthcare workers in African countries. But theres a shortage of those workers, as many leave for better opportunities elsewhere. As a result, PEPFAR has a

VOA标准英语2010年-Book Chronicles How Neverending Quest

Steven Solomon's new book, Water: the Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization, is a comprehensive look at how societies through the ages have organized around this vital and often scarce resource. Revolutionary advances Solomon describes tra

VOA标准英语2010年-Physicists Discuss 'Big Bang Machine'

Scientists monitor the injection of proton and ion into the Large Hadron Collider, which is 100 meters underground near Geneva, Switzerland, 23 Oct 2009 A very specialized group of scientists meets this month (July 22 - 28) in Paris for a biennial co

VOA标准英语2010年-Oil Spill Fund Chief Says He is 'Behol

Kenneth R. Feinberg, who was recently appointed by President Barack Obama as the Independent Administrator of the Gulf Claims Facility for the $20 billion BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill compensation fund, speaks at the Economics Club in Washington, 1

VOA标准英语2010年-US Military Trains for Possible Terror

It is hard to imagine, but it could happen anywhere in the world - an atomic blast set off by terrorists. The U.S. military is training for that possibility in the United States. More than 3,000 Army troops and National Guard - the state militias - a

VOA标准英语2010年-UN Signs Agreement on Children with Da

Representatives of the United Nations and the Sudanese opposition movement, the Justice and Equality Movement, have signed an agreement on the protection of children in the Darfur conflict. The agreement, which has been under negotiation since 2008,

VOA标准英语2010年-HIV Counseling in Kenya Often Stressfu

A little more than a year after the Kenyan and U.S. governments launched a nationwide HIV home testing program in Kenya, some counselors in the program say they are feeling overwhelmed. They cite harsh conditions in the field, conflicts in the homes

VOA标准英语2010年-Promising New Gel to Prevent HIV Infec

South African researchers have made a scientific breakthrough in the fight against AIDS with a vaginal gel that significantly reduces a woman's risk of being infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Experts say the gel could be a revolutionary

VOA标准英语2010年-Hollywood Composer Patrick Williams Em

Music is a key part of film and television production, and in four decades in Hollywood, Patrick Williams has been a leading composer and arranger of musical themes and scores. The Grammy-winning musician has also been active in the recording busines

VOA标准英语2010年-BP Studies Static Kill Option on Damag

Capping Stack deploys from on board the Transocean Discoverer Inspiration on the MC 252 location 11 July 2010 Oil company BP is considering a so-called static kill to seal off its damaged Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, even as plans go forward t

VOA标准英语2010年-Invasive Asian Carp Threaten Ecosystem

Asian Carp now outnumber native fish in many areas of the United States and their expansion particularly threatens the fragile ecosystems of the Great Lakes. In an effort to control algae growth, catfish farmers in the southern United States introduc

VOA标准英语2010年-Lobster Fishermen Struggle as Profits

At 68, Skip Ryan has been catching lobster for 46 years. In the port of Boston, amid the cargo vessels and whale-watching boats that motor in and out of the harbor each day, a handful of fishing vessels still make their livelihoods from the bounty of

VOA标准英语2010年-2 Killed as Militants Attack Russian H

In this image taken from TV Russian NTV channel on 21 Jul 2010, smoke rising from the Russian hydropower station in Kabardino-Balkariya Militants stormed a hydroelectric plant in southern Russia Wednesday, killing two security guards and setting off

VOA标准英语2010年-Helping the Needy in Gaza

Libyan ship Amalthea, carrying aid for the impoverished Gaza Strip, docks at the port of el-Arish, Egypt, 15 Jul 2010, after Israel's navy stopped it from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory The international aid organization CARE is calling

VOA标准英语2010年-South Africa Tackles Prevention of Mot

Abandoned HIV positive babies Sifiso, left, and Rose, right, at the Cotlands home in Johannesburg, South Africa, 9 Jul 2002 Around 70,000 babies are born with HIV in South Africa every year. It is one of the main contributors to the country's high in

VOA标准英语2010年-You'll Get a Bang Out of This Story

Looks like the auto on the right, which already looks the worse for wear, is about to get zapped once again. There's a really destructive form of entertainment being staged in many parts of the United States. It's called the demolition derby. The der

VOA标准英语2010年-Hollywood Leans Toward More Natural Lo

Mention Hollywood, and most people think of glamour: beautiful women with smooth, flawless skin and perfectly aligned white teeth, men with trim athletic bodies. But much of that look is artificial: breast implants, Botox-treated faces, collagen-inje