VOA标准英语2011--Study: Stop-Smoking Aid Ups Cardiovascul

Study: Stop-Smoking Aid Ups Cardiovascular Risks An analysis of more than a dozen drug studies finds that smokers who take the drug Chantix to help them kick the habit face significantly higher risks of cardiovascular problems including stroke, heart

VOA标准英语Scientists Unravel Potato's Genetic Blueprint

Scientists Unravel Potato's Genetic Blueprint Scientists have decoded the genetic blueprint of the world's third most important food crop: the potato. Researchers from 26 institutions around the world worked on the project to sequence, or map, the po

VOA标准英语2011--Pioneering Reporter Helped Change Face o

Pioneering Reporter Helped Change Face of US TV News Through the first half of the 20th century, as television became a fixture in U.S. homes, the reporters Americans saw on TV were white, and almost all men. That began to change in the 1960s. Africa

VOA标准英语2011--Teleconferencing Promotes Sense of Commu

Teleconferencing Promotes Sense of Community Among Hmong Call-in radio Each day around the world, thousands of Southeast Asians pick up their telephones to listen to the radio. They tune in to one of at least 20 different teleconferences, which broad

VOA标准英语2011--Tension Rises in Egypt Between Governmen

Tension Rises in Egypt Between Government, Protesters Young people in a tent city at the center of Cairo's Tahrir Square chanted a song from the 1950s, with words updated to refer to their revolution, saying they want to return Egypt to what they see

VOA标准英语African Countries Debate Using DDT in Anti-Mal

African Countries Debate Using DDT in Anti-Malaria Efforts The chemical pesticide DDT has been banned by most countries for use in agriculture, but some continue to use it indoors to kill insects that carry malaria. In Zambia, it's an important part

VOA标准英语2011--Melting Pot Cooks Up New American Cuisin

Melting Pot Cooks Up New American Cuisine In most major American cities, You can find food carts, where vendors sell meals from mobile trucks. Many people end up cooking the foods of their childhood - whether it's new immigrants selling their native

VOA标准英语2011--The Revolution Continues on Chicago Blue

The Revolution Continues on Chicago Blues Tribute Album A tribute album to Chicago blues wouldn't be complete without an appearance by two of the city's most beloved bluesmen, Buddy Guy and James Cotton. Both appear on the all-star recording, Chicago

VOA标准英语2011--Nigerian Labor Leaders Call Strike Over

Nigerian Labor Leaders Call Strike Over Minimum Wage Nigerian labor leaders are calling for a three-day general strike next week to protest failures to pay a new, national minimum wage. Negotiations on a new minimum wage for Nigerians began more than

VOA标准英语2011--Kasey Chambers' 'Little Bird' Takes Flig

Kasey Chambers' 'Little Bird' Takes Flight Kasey Chambers was just 11 years old when she began her career as a member of The Dead Ringer Band, a group led by her parents. In 1999, at the age of 23, Kasey released her first solo album to considerable

VOA标准英语2011--17 Killed in Recent Mumbai Bombings

17 Killed in Recent Mumbai Bombings Amid popular anger and grief at the apparent terror attacks in India's financial hub, Mumbai, top Indian officials are heading to the city and promising answers. At least 17 people were killed in Wednesday's back-t

VOA标准英语2011--Yellowstone River Spill Raises Pipeline

Yellowstone River Spill Raises Pipeline Safety Concerns Environmentalists are pushing for tighter regulations after the rupture of an Exxon Mobil oil pipeline which runs beneath the Yellowstone River in Montana. Before it was shut off, the burst pipe

Giant Robots Do Battle in Action-Packed 'Transformers: Dark

Giant Robots Do Battle in Action-Packed 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' The mechanical toy robots known as Transformers first appeared on store shelves in the 1980s. They spawned TV shows, comic books and finally big, loud motion pictures. The third

VOA标准英语2011--Young Navajos Leave Reservation for Jobs

Young Navajos Leave Reservation for Jobs The hallways at Ganado High School are bustling in between classes. But they're not nearly as crowded as they were just three years ago. I'm looking at a high school that, in the mid 2000s, ran about 850 stude

VOA标准英语2011--Fast-Growing Internet Communities Share

Fast-Growing Internet Communities Share Human Milk In yet another instance of an Internet-driven social phenomenon, a growing number of women in the U.S. are joining on-line breast-milk-sharing communities. Their aim is to provide human milk to new m

VOA标准英语2011--Gaza Flotilla Determined to Sail Despite

Gaza Flotilla Determined to Sail Despite Setbacks An international aid flotilla is continuing with plans to sail to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip despite a series of setbacks. Pro-Palestinian activists organizing the aid flotilla say they still intend t

VOA标准英语2011--Oregon Advertising Studio Tracks Fukushi

Oregon Advertising Studio Tracks Fukushima Radiation If you were to picture the sort of person who might take the lead in gathering radiation data from the Fukushima nuclear accident, Marcelino Alvarez probably wouldn't come to mind. My background is

VOA标准英语2011--Study: Eradicating Cancer-Causing Infect

Study: Eradicating Cancer-Causing Infection Feasible A new study finds it may be possible to eradicate an infection responsible for an often-fatal cancer. The research also illustrates the complexities of that approach, especially when different trea

VOA标准英语2011--Emergency Meeting Held on Horn of Africa

Emergency Meeting Held on Horn of Africa Famine and Drought The international community held an emergency meeting in Rome Monday on the famine and drought in the Horn of Africa. Representatives from the G20, U.N. agencies and NGOs warned the crisis c

VOA标准英语2011--Americans Turn to AIDS Drugs to Prevent

Americans Turn to AIDS Drugs to Prevent HIV Infection New research in Africa confirms that a once-a-day pill, used to treat patients infected with the virus which causes AIDS, also works to prevent HIV infection in healthy people. For 20-year-old New