VOA标准英语2012--Syrians Demonstrate Against Government Bombing

Syrians Demonstrate Against Government Bombing The people of Mare, a town of 10,000, dedicated Friday prayers to the people of Azaz, 20 kilometers away. Azaz was bombed two days earlier in a Syrian government air strike. It was one of the deadliest a

VOA标准英语2012--'Slum Film Festival' Showcases Urban Stories

'Slum Film Festival' Showcases Urban Stories The festival is a community-based event, featuring films by and about people living in urban slums, screened in the open air. The event allows filmmakers to show their work to residents of the areas where

VOA标准英语2012--Human Impact Muffles Mother Nature's Voice

Human Impact Muffles Mother Nature's Voice Whether it's the driving rain in a tropical storm, the scream of a mountain gorilla or the jolt of a snow mobile engine against the winter silence, Krause has recorded it all. In his new book, The Great Anim

VOA标准英语2012--9/11 Victims' Families Watch Closely as Guantanamo Hearings Begin

9/11 Victims' Families Watch Closely as Guantanamo Hearings Begin The trial will happen far away - in both time and distance - from the destruction of September 11th, 2001. Judi Jackson Reiss lost her 23-year-old son, Josh, in the World Trade Center

VOA标准英语2012--Conventions Loom as Test for US Presidential Candidates

Conventions Loom as Test for US Presidential Candidates Negative ads from both sides blanket the TV airwaves and the candidates are taking it personally. The other side has decided that compromise is a dirty word, President Obama said. And they spend

VOA标准英语2012--Political Conventions Aim to Energize Party Faithful

Political Conventions Aim to Energize Party Faithful Just like a whistle that starts a soccer match, the conventions signal its time for the real game to begin. This high energy has to carry the U.S. presidential campaign through its final 10 weeks.

VOA标准英语2012--Dallas Attacks West Nile Virus by Land, Air

Dallas Attacks West Nile Virus by Land, Air The aerial and ground fumigation programs are blanketing around 1,400 square kilometers of the county, but don't target all mosquitoes. Laura McGowan, who works with Clarke, the company contracted to carry

VOA标准英语2012--German Growth Offers Lifeline for Euro

German Growth Offers Lifeline for Euro As the music booms from his new range of top-end speakers in the testing suite, Dieter Burmester allows himself a little dance. From its headquarters in Berlin, the company that bears his name produces audio equ

VOA标准英语2012--Syrian Conflict Gives Kurds New Freedom

Syrian Conflict Gives Kurds New Freedom When Syrian government forces withdrew recently, the Kurdish city of Afrin came under the control of the Kurd's Democratic Union Party, known as the P.Y.D. Afrin has its own checkpoints and flies its own flag.

VOA标准英语2012--Two Brothers Wage Media War for Syrian Rebels

Two Brothers Wage Media War for Syrian Rebels Its a dangerous trek across the Turkish border into Syria. With the Turkish military patrolling one side and Syrian rebel fighters on the other, the risk of being caught up in the conflict is extremely hi

VOA标准英语2012--Digital Revolution Transforms Comic Books

Digital Revolution Transforms Comic Books For the past 30 years, Golden Apple Comics in Los Angeles has been selling comic books to adults and children like eight-year-old Evan Cray. I just like holding the pages and reading it, he says. The look of

VOA标准英语2012--Syrians Work to Restore Services Amid War

Syrians Work to Restore Services Amid War At this makeshift gas station along the roadside in northern Syria, fuel sells for about $2 a liter. It is one of the precious resources the Free Syrian Army is helping to secure. The FSA is organizing Local

VOA标准英语2012--Dallas Continues Spraying in Fight Against West Nile Fever

Dallas Continues Spraying in Fight Against West Nile Fever Many people in Dallas continue to work and play outdoors, but they are heeding warnings from health officials to protect themselves. Fifteen-year-old Macias says he has followed the news repo

VOA标准英语2012--New Documentary Revives American Pioneer Music

New Documentary Revives American Pioneer Music The Little House on the Prairie television series is perhaps the best-known adaption of the Laura Ingalls Wilder stories. The show aired for eight seasons beginning in 1974 and has since been translated

VOA标准英语2012--Young Kenyan Artists Face Tough Market

Young Kenyan Artists Face Tough Market At the Kuona Trust, a visual arts center in a Nairobi suburb, artists work out of converted shipping containers. Kuona's mission is to provide opportunities for its artists to produce world-class art in Kenya. S

VOA标准英语2012--Phelps Wants to Enjoy Life After Olympic Glory

Phelps Wants to Enjoy Life After Olympic Glory Phelps now has three Olympic records - for winning the most overall medals with 22, for winning the most gold medals with 18, and for the most gold medals in a single Olympics with eight, which he won in

VOA标准英语2012--For Freed Inmate, Painful Memories of Life on Death Row

For Freed Inmate, Painful Memories of Life on Death Row The execution in Texas of a man alleged to have been mentally disabled has once again brought attention to the issue of capital punishment in the United States. Nearly 1,300 people have been exe

VOA标准英语2012--US Drought Impacts Global Food Security

US Drought Impacts Global Food Security The United States is the leading producer of corn and soybeans two commodities that developing countries rely on. However, over the past two months, prices have risen sharply as the U.S. experiences its worst d

VOA标准英语2012--Athletes, Fans Getting Tattooed in London

Athletes, Fans Getting Tattooed in London The blue, yellow, black, green, and red interlocking rings that make up the symbol of the Olympic Games are getting etched into the skin of Olympic athletes across London, a reminder that they competed in one

VOA标准英语2012--Political Activists Shun Staging Protests at Olympics

Political Activists Shun Staging Protests at Olympics Maria Wenda and a small number of protesters from the Free West Papua Movement staged a demonstration in front of the Indonesian Embassy in London during the Olympics. She says the group hopes the