VOA标准英语2010年-Singapore Math Adds Up for US Teachers

Teaching fewer basics in a more indepth way, Singapore method encourages young minds to think mathematically Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 10 August 2010 Photo: Courtesy Scott Baldridge Scott Baldridge with a group of elementary school math teachers

VOA标准英语2010年-Voracious Bug Paved Way for Southern T

A statue on Main Street in Enterprise, Alabama, features a woman holding a large, black boll weevil above her head. While many U.S. cities have suffered because of the recession, one town in the southern state of Alabama, has fared surprisingly well.

VOA标准英语2010年-Muslim Americans Observe Holy Month of

Muslim devotees take part in a special morning prayer to start their Eid al-Fitr festival, which marks the end of Muslim's holy fasting month of Ramadan, outside the Baitul Ma'Mur Mosque in Brooklyn, New York, 20 Sep 2009 The Ramadan Effect: Muslim S

VOA标准英语2010年-French Muslims Gather Supplies for Ram

Butcher Haj Mohammed chops pieces of meat at his Halal butcher shop and wraps each carefully for his customers in in Paris's Muslim quarter Famed American chef, author and television personality Julia Child once called cooking in France a national sp

VOA标准英语2010年-US Envoy Pushes Palestinians to Enter

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, speaks with US Mideast envoy George Mitchell during their meeting at Abbas' office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 10 Aug 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama's point man in the Middle East is on a new peace

VOA标准英语2010年-US, Iraqi Officials Say Iraqi Security

US commander for Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, speaks at a press conference at the U.S. embassy in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq (File Photo) A recent wave of violence across Iraq is drawing more attention to the impending decrease in U.S. forces in that

VOA标准英语2010年-US, Russia Still at Odds on Missile De

The Patriot missile defense system The question of missile defense is not addressed in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), recently signed by the United States and Russia. But the issue remains contentious between Washington and Moscow.

VOA标准英语2010年-Survey: Young American Jews Less Attac

In June, The New York Review of Books published an article by author Peter Beinart contending that young American Jews think little about Israel, if at all. The article cited a survey conducted by a conservative pollster. It concluded that many young

VOA标准英语2010年-In Afghanistan, US Pilots Aim to Save

Medevac units play a crucial role in Afghanistan, providing emergency care and transportation to injured soldiers, and to Afghan civilians In July, the U.S military recorded its highest monthly death toll in the nine-year Afghanistan war. As the casu

VOA标准英语2010年-Mideast Peace Talks to Restart

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (R) speaks while flanked by Special Envoy for Middle East Peace Talks, Senator George Mitchell, 20 August 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday issued a formal invitation to Israel and the Palestinia

VOA标准英语2010年-Cold Front Hits Russia After Two-Month

Andrei Savelyev, 46, stands at the site of his house that was burnt down during the forest fires, 17 Aug 2010, in the village of Yuzhny, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, some 300 kilometers (187.5 miles) east of Moscow The heat wave that gripped Moscow

VOA标准英语2010年-Australians Vote in Close Race

Beachgoers carry a surf-ski past a polling station on Queenscliff Beach in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. Australians go to the polls Saturday to vote in the federal election. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) The polls are open and Australian vot

VOA标准英语2010年-Iran Announces Test-Firing of New Qiam

This photo released on 20 Aug 2010, by the Iranian Defense Ministry, claims to show the launch of the Qiam-1 liquid-fueled missile by Iranian armed forces, at an undisclosed location Iran's defense minister Ahmad Vahidi is saying Friday that Tehran h

VOA标准英语2010年-Super Wealthy Foreigners Boost London

London has long been one of the first stops for the world's super-wealthy. The recent global economic downturn, however, saw the foreign investors go quiet. Now after two years of holding back, they've returned with a vengeance, buying up luxury prop

VOA标准英语2010年-Winds Still 'Come Sweepin' Down the Pl

This is the Cimarron National Grassland in western Kansas. You can see that it's not very farmable but is worth preserving. In 1935, during the heart of the Great Depression, whole sections of the American Midwest suffered through a terrible drought

VOA标准英语2010年-Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Tribunal Legacy

A nearby stupa holds the skulls of some of more than 10,000 people who were murdered at Wat Samruong Knong. Around its base are a series of murals that show what happened here - in this mural, Khmer Rouge soldiers cut open their victims and cook body

VOA标准英语2010年-US: Direct Mideast Talks Deal Very Clo

The State Department said Thursday an agreement for the start of direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians is close to completion. The deal will apparently be sealed by statements from the United States and the International Middle East

VOA标准英语2010年-US-Sponsored Fellowship Program Benefi

They were chosen from among 800 candidates to receive a special agricultural fellowship for African women. And among this year winners -- a plant pathologist, a catfish breeder, a soybean specialist. They all hope to benefit from the two-year program

VOA标准英语2010年-Law Students Help Homeowners Facing Fo

Law students from Florida AM University go door to door offering help to homeowners facing foreclosure. The law students from Florida AM University are going door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods to educate residents about property foreclosures an

VOA标准英语2010年-NY Islamic Center Site Becomes Magnet

In a controversy that is sweeping the country, many Americans oppose a plan to build an Islamic Center just two blocks from the site where al Qaeda terrorists toppled the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, on September 11, 2001. Supporters