VOA标准英语2011--Pakistan Denies Arresting Army Major for

Pakistan Denies Arresting Army Major for US Ties A report in Wednesday's New York Times quotes unnamed U.S. intelligence officials as saying Pakistan has arrested five people, including a Pakistani military official, accused of passing information to

VOA标准英语2011--Anna Wilson Marries Country and Pop on '

Anna Wilson Marries Country and Pop on 'Countrypolitan Duets' Country meets pop and jazz on a new album by singer-songwriter Anna Wilson. Anna Wilson taps into Nashville's so-called Countrypolitan era with the help of past and present country stars a

VOA标准英语2011--Big Cats at Home on the Range

Big Cats at Home on the Range Five years ago, U.S. conservation biologist Josh Donlan got some people howling with a controversial article in the scientific journal Nature. Almost literally howling, since the subject was his proposal to re-wild the G

VOA标准英语2011--East Africa Food Shortages Expected to A

East Africa Food Shortages Expected to Affect More People In East Africa, millions people are in need of emergency food assistance because of the prolonged, severe drought. Now a U.N. agency warns that things could get worse. Steady rain is hard to c

VOA标准英语2011--You'll Never Guess One of America's Boom

You'll Never Guess One of America's Boom States During a spring of extraordinary flooding in America's Northern Plains, the mostly flat, lightly populated state of North Dakota experienced 17 record river crests. This, after one blizzard after anothe

VOA标准英语2011--Unexpected Gift Teaches Man Life Lesson

Unexpected Gift Teaches Man Life Lesson in 'Mr. Popper's Penguins' Wacky comedy is a specialty of Jim Carrey, but when his co-stars are six Gentoo penguins ...on the loose in New York City ...things really get wild. Here's a look at Carrey's new film

VOA标准英语2011--Atlantis Crew 'Honored' to Be On Final S

Atlantis Crew 'Honored' to Be On Final Shuttle Mission The space shuttle Atlantis is preparing for the final mission of the U.S. shuttle program next month. Atlantis's crew is excited and reflective before the space craft's last flight. The crew, led

VOA标准英语2011--Civil War Songs Reset for 21st Century

Civil War Songs Reset for 21st Century The U.S. Civil War may be a century and a half behind us, but American emotions about the conflict can still be raw. Director Peter Sellars has taken music by Pulitzer-prize winning composer George Crumb and upd

Heavy Rains Bring Raging Floods - and a Debate

Heavy Rains Bring Raging Floods - and a Debate This spring, so-called 100-year floods swamped many communities along the Mississippi River, America's largest commercial waterway. The flooding was so severe that the U.S. Corps of Engineers, which supe

VOA标准英语2011--Jon Batzdorff Makes People's Dreams Come

Jon Batzdorff Makes People's Dreams Come True Jon Batzdorff has made it his life's work to help amputees, not only in the United States, but around the world. His business is prosthetics and orthotics - the evaluation, fabrication and custom-fitting

VOA标准英语2011--US Woman's Afghan Experience Inspires No

US Woman's Afghan Experience Inspires Novel Farishta means 'angel' in Dari, the widely spoken language in northern Afghanistan. It's also the title of a novel by Patricia McArdle, a retired American diplomat who spent a year in Afghanistan. Over her

VOA标准英语2011--2nd Digital Revolution is Potential Bona

2nd Digital Revolution is Potential Bonanza for Innovative Startups The buzz was palpable at Internet Week New York, a digital culture festival. With more than 300,000 workers employed in New York's technology sector, and nearly $2 billion in dot-com

VOA标准英语2011--Americans Try Renting Their Car to Stran

Americans Try Renting Their Car to Strangers Americans love their cars. There are more cars, per capita, in the United States than in any other country - more than eight cars for every 10 Americans, according to recent government figures. But most of

VOA标准英语2011--Life Expectancy Declining in Large Parts

Life Expectancy Declining in Large Parts of US The obesity epidemic is not just an American health issue. New data from the World Health Organization show that more than 1 billion adults around the world are overweight, nearly a third of them obese.

VOA标准英语2011--Former British Prime Minister Calls for

Former British Prime Minister Calls for Increased Investment in Sierra Leone Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he came to Sierra Leone to follow up on his initiatives to help the country. This is all part of the initiative we have here in

VOA标准英语2011--Swiss Firm Seeks Carbon Credits in Kenya

Swiss Firm Seeks Carbon Credits in Kenya with Clean Water The purchase and sale of carbon credits are relatively new concepts in Africa, accounting for less than three percent of the $144 billion global carbon credit trade. The system is designed to

VOA标准英语2011--Titanic Exhibit Brings the Tragic Story

Titanic Exhibit Brings the Tragic Story to Life When the ocean liner RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, more than 1,500 passengers died. It made headlines as one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history. The

VOA标准英语2011--Polls Show Americans Weary of Afghan Con

Polls Show Americans Weary of Afghan Conflict The beginning of the expected drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan follows a steady decline in American public support for a war that has gone on for nearly 10 years. When he ran for president in 2008,

VOA标准英语2011--Gates to NATO Allies: Do Not Rush Out of

Gates to NATO Allies: Do Not Rush Out of Afghanistan U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged NATO allies Thursday to not rush out of Afghanistan, even as the United States prepares to start withdrawing its own troops next month. The secretary made

VOA标准英语2011--Greeks March Against More Budget Cuts, P

Greeks March Against More Budget Cuts, Privatization Angry Greeks are taking to the streets, demanding the government back off plans to save the economy by privatizing their government jobs. Anger and frustration boiled over into the streets of Athen