VOA标准英语2012--Republicans Face Tough Job Winning Hispanic Votes

Republicans Face Tough Job Winning Hispanic Votes The Republican convention's host city of Tampa is home to a well-established Hispanic community, with Cuban cigar shops and restaurants that attract delegates and even a U.S. senator. They may enjoy t

VOA标准英语2012--Searching for Animal Disease Transmission

Searching for Animal Disease Transmission Researchers are not waiting for the next new disease to emerge. Theyre studying our near and distant primate relatives to try to prevent future epidemics. HIV/AIDS is a well-known zoonotic disease, an illness

VOA标准英语2012--Experts Call for Action as Europe's Crisis Festers

Experts Call for Action as Europe's Crisis Festers Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has been holding another round of meetings with key European leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Samaras wants more time to implement painful reforms. A

VOA标准英语2012--Ice Age Melt Offers Future Climate Clues

Ice Age Melt Offers Future Climate Clues University of Wisconsin geologist Anders Carlson studies ice sheet melt from land and ocean sediment cores. His study describes what prehistoric Earth was like in North America and Northern Europe some 140,000

VOA标准英语2012--Officials Say New Orleans is Better Protected This Time Around

Officials Say New Orleans is Better Protected This Time Around Seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina hammered the U.S. Gulf Coast with a storm surge eight and a half meters high and winds that blew apart buildings. The storm overwhelmed the levees that

VOA标准英语2012--Corn Harvest Comes Early for Midwest Farmers

Corn Harvest Comes Early for Midwest Farmers The only thing farmer Bruce Nation sees in his cornfields outside Taylorville, Illinois, is heartache. This stuff is depressing here. This is hard to look at for me, he said. Most of the ears of corn that

VOA标准英语2012--Scandals and Mistakes Influence US Political Campaigns

Scandals and Mistakes Influence US Political Campaigns Just as Republicans were preparing to introduce Mitt Romney to the nation, a little known U.S. Senate candidate sparked a controversy. Congressman Todd Akin was asked if abortion should be allowe

VOA标准英语2012--US Military Pilot Training Emphasizes Drone Warfare

US Military Pilot Training Emphasizes Drone Warfare Holloman has long been the testing ground for cutting edge warplanes. These days, German training jets are the few manned aircraft to be seen here. The skies at Holloman are now ruled by remotely-pi

VOA标准英语2012--Olympic Fans Go Shopping

Olympic Fans Go Shopping People have been flooding into the department store John Lewis, which is right by the Olympic Park, to buy their official games merchandise. Inside, Olympic imagery is splattered across just about every product you can imagin

VOA标准英语2012--Support System, Determination Help Autistic Man Lead Full Life

Support System, Determination Help Autistic Man Lead Full Life 26-year-old Kevin Gibson is one of those success stories. He loves living in his own apartment. Its a great feeling, to like, be able to live on your own, he said. That is a rare accompli

VOA标准英语2012--Botti Taps Top Talent on 'Impressions'

Botti Taps Top Talent on 'Impressions' Botti is a generous musician. His guest lists have become legendary, and his new recording is no exception. Theres a pleasant duet with guitarist Leonardo Amuedo on Over The Rainbow. His interpretation of Randy

VOA标准英语2012--Expert: Jihadists Joining With Syrian Rebels

Expert: Jihadists Joining With Syrian Rebels Free Syria Army fighters on the outskirts of Aleppo earlier this month. As Western and Gulf powers step up their aid for the Syrian opposition, concerns are growing that Islamist militant groups are infilt

VOA标准英语2012--For Moira Smiley, Global Music Journey Transcends Time

For Moira Smiley, Global Music Journey Transcends Time To hear VOCO is to be transported across waters, across worlds, across time. What I love about old music, is that there is a sense of your smallness in the big story, Smiley explains, and that yo

VOA标准英语2012--Farm Bill Key Issue on Presidential Campaign Trail in Iowa

Farm Bill Key Issue on Presidential Campaign Trail in Iowa A lack of rain and scorching temperatures are taking a toll on eastern Iowa farmer Robb Ewoldt. On his farm outside Davenport, a creek bed usually flowing with water is almost completely drie

VOA标准英语2012--Libya's Minority Berbers Renew Equality Demands

Libya's Minority Berbers Renew Equality Demands The Berber village of Yefren is remote, dry and dusty. It was also one of the cradles of last year's Libyan uprising, claiming one of the first anti-regime demonstrations, and several of the revolution'

VOA标准英语2012--China Slams Western Involvement in S. China Sea Issue

China Slams Western Involvement in S. China Sea Issue Chinese patrols in waters also claimed by Vietnam and the Philippines are deepening animosities in the South China Sea. What were most concerned about at the moment is that tensions are going up a

VOA标准英语2012--Pro-tobacco Forces Still Strong in Many Countries

Pro-tobacco Forces Still Strong in Many Countries A study that compiled data on three billion tobacco users worldwide, including thousands of face to face interviews, shows that global tobacco use is greatly influenced by the pro-tobacco lobby. The s

VOA标准英语2012--Azaz Residents Pick Up After Aerial Bombings

Azaz Residents Pick Up After Aerial Bombings The residents of Azaz clean up and mourn after Wednesday's deadly bombing by Syrian government warplanes. Azaz had been peaceful in recent months, although forces of the rebel Free Syrian Army have had to

VOA标准英语2012--Coney Island Amusement Park Still Up and Spinning

Coney Island Amusement Park Still Up and Spinning Coney Island is only half a kilometer wide, but this playground by the sea has been offering giant-sized fun ever since the early 19th century. It's been a Big Apple summertime destination, beginning

VOA标准英语2012--Sideshows Make Magic in NY Amusement Park

Sideshows Make Magic in NY Amusement Park The weird, the amazing, and the simply gross are alive and well at Coney Island, where sideshow performers test their limits. Coney Island draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. For more than a centu