VOA标准英语2012--Unconventional Voices Make Points in New Hampshire

VOA标准英语2012--Unconventional Voices Make Points in New Hampshire The American presidential election isn't until November of this year. But the nation's first primary election takes place on Tuesday in the northeastern state of New Hampshire. S

Geophysicist Probes Ocean's Secrets

Geophysicist Probes Ocean's Secrets Today, Pitman is a distinguished professor of geophysics at Columbia University, and the recipient of many of his fields most coveted honors. Even though he is now in his 80s, Pitmans animated manner makes it easy

VOA标准英语2012--Ocean Floor Reveals Past Climate Changes

Ocean Floor Reveals Past Climate Changes Time capsule Lamont research professor Maureen Raymo, the director of the Core Repository, slides open a long, narrow drawer from the cabinet. Like thousands of others here, the drawer contains a long, thin cy

VOA标准英语2012--Global Warming Could Delay Next Ice Age

Global Warming Could Delay Next Ice Age The next ice age could be delayed by tens of thousands of years due to excessive amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which disrupts Earths natural cycle of warming and cooling, according

Hollywood Films Focus on Women Abused in Bosnian War

Hollywood Films Focus on Women Abused in Bosnian War Who were you before the war? asks Serbian commander Danijel of his captive, a Muslim woman named Ajila from Sarajevo. Their complicated relationship plays out during In The Land of Blood and Honey,

VOA标准英语2012--Technology Hub Launches Businesses in Cameroon

Technology Hub Launches Businesses in Cameroon Zinger Systems began as a business idea in the minds of a few Cameroonian entrepreneurs. After they spent one year developing their academic software and business model at Activspaces, a technology hub i

VOA标准英语2012--53 Dead in Attack on Iraqi Shites

53 Dead in Attack on Iraqi Shites Firefighters hosed down the pavement along the road where the bombing took place, as workers removed pieces of food, shoes and clothing from the scene of the explosion. Dozens were killed and wounded in the blast, bu

VOA标准英语2012--EU Leaders Angry at Credit Downgrade

EU Leaders Angry at Credit Downgrade From Larnaka to Brussels, European Union officials were on the defensive Saturday, downplaying the downgrades while vowing to push through fiscal reforms. In a widely anticipated move, the rating agency downgraded

VOA标准英语2012--New Film Explores Life in Modern Tehran

New Film Explores Life in Modern Tehran The film opens in divorce court with Nader, a bank employee, and his estranged wife Simin, a doctor, appearing before a judge. Simin is filing for divorce because she wants to leave the country. Simin feels if

VOA标准英语2012--Europe Debates Iran Oil Sanctions Amid Debt Crisis

Europe Debates Iran Oil Sanctions Amid Debt Crisis With sanctions tightening, Irans leader toured South America, including a stop in Cuba Wednesday. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is looking for new friends and new markets. The U.S. has already impose

VOA标准英语2012--China Exports Fall to Two-Year Lows

China Exports Fall to Two-Year Lows Sales of Chinese-made goods overseas have been one of the biggest drivers of China's phenomenal growth. But new data shows that export growth may already have peaked. Investment strategist Pu Yonghao at UBS Wealth

VOA标准英语2012--Ahmadinejad Has Little to Show After Latin American Trip

Ahmadinejad Has Little to Show After Latin American Trip Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's last stop was Ecuador. At a news conference with President Rafael Correa, the Iranian leader denied widespread international suspicions that his country

VOA标准英语2012--Passwords Could Soon Be Obsolete

Passwords Could Soon Be Obsolete The American technology company released its 6th annual Five-in-Five, a list of five innovations the firm expects to see within five years. One of them will enable us to generate small amounts of energy to supplement

VOA标准英语2012--US Mormons Say They are Misunderstood Despite Romney Candidacy

US Mormons Say They are Misunderstood Despite Romney Candidacy It is story time at the Cook home. Two-year-old Tristan gets his work-weary father Dave Cook to read him one book after another before going to bed. As Dave and his wife Andrea sit on the

VOA标准英语2012--South Dakota Retains Unique Vintage Charm

South Dakota Retains Unique Vintage Charm If youre into time travel, time warps, time capsules, that sort of thing, you should take a trip to the high-plains state of South Dakota. Youll feel like youre back in the 1940s. That was long before high-sp

VOA标准英语2012--India Achieves Milestone in Global Polio Eradication

India Achieves Milestone in Global Polio Eradication International reaction To help India celebrate one year since its last reported case of polio, U.S. Health Secretary, Dr. Kathleen Sebelius, came to administer oral polio vaccine to Indian children

VOA标准英语2012--Politics Complicate China-US Relations

Politics Complicate China-US Relations Taiwan has been separately governed since Nationalist forces fled there in 1949, after losing the countrys civil war. China still considers the island its territory has threatened to use force to regain control

VOA标准英语2012--Ethiopia Awaits Influx of Refugees from Sudan and South Sudan

Ethiopia Awaits Influx of Refugees from Sudan and South Sudan Humanitarian agencies are preparing for an influx of refugees into Ethiopia from both Sudan and South Sudan. Civilians, mostly women and children, are fleeing fighting and violence in bord

VOA标准英语2012--Duplicitous Boss Turns on Female Secret Agent in 'Haywire'

Duplicitous Boss Turns on Female Secret Agent in 'Haywire' MALLORY: This is your pitch? You want me to be 'eye candy?' MI-6 wants me to be eye candy? I don't even know how to play that. I don't wear the dress. When Mallory Kane does wear a dress it i

VOA标准英语2012--Unique Species of Shrimp, Anemones Thrive Near Caribbean Seafloor Vents

Unique Species of Shrimp, Anemones Thrive Near Caribbean Seafloor Vents The volcanic vents were discovered five kilometers down near the bottom of Cayman Trough - an undersea trench south of the Cayman Islands. Expedition co-leader Jon Copley, a mari