VOA标准英语2012--US Furniture Capital Holds Annual Showcase

US Furniture Capital Holds Annual Showcase Hundreds of U.S. towns and cities call themselves the capital of something or another. Even the world capital of this or that. Many of these titles are just for fun - a bit of promotion for the area. Tarpon

VOA标准英语2012--Los Angeles Sees Improvements 20 Years After Riots

Los Angeles Sees Improvements 20 Years After Riots Twenty years ago on Sunday [April 29, 1992], parts of Los Angeles, California, erupted in race riots that left 53 people dead and caused more than $1 billion in damage. Local leaders recently toured

VOA标准英语2012--Tranquil Arizona-Mexico Border Masks Nogales' Economic Woes

Tranquil Arizona-Mexico Border Masks Nogales' Economic Woes People who live on the hillside in Nogales, Arizona look out on Mexico every day, and all looks tranquil. Yet resident Mary Darling-McCune says people she meets in other parts of Arizona thi

VOA标准英语2012--Former Libyan Rebel Sues Britain Over Torture Claim

Former Libyan Rebel Sues Britain Over Torture Claim Abdul Hakim Belhadj was part of the dissident Libyan Islamic Fighting Group before the uprising last year. The U.S. State Department considered the group a terrorist organization. Belhadj claims he

VOA标准英语2012--Translators Bridge Communication in Kenya Healthcare

Translators Bridge Communication in Kenya Healthcare Peer educator Susan Mwangi explains the finer points of reproductive health. The secret to Mwangis successful counseling is her ability to make her message understood. It is very important to know

VOA标准英语2012--Text Messaging Reminders for Flu Vaccinations Get Results

Text Messaging Reminders for Flu Vaccinations Get Results In a world of seven billion people, communications industry records show that nearly six billion of us have access to a cell phone. In developing countries, health care workers in rural areas

VOA标准英语2012--Immunization Week Highlights Efforts to Save Lives Worldwide

Immunization Week Highlights Efforts to Save Lives Worldwide Haiti, Nigeria, Ghana -- 180 countries in all -- stepped up their immunization drives against deadly childhood infections to mark World Immunization Week. The GAVI Alliance -- a Geneva base

VOA标准英语2012--Illegal Immigration Not an Issue for Legal Immigrants in New York

Illegal Immigration Not an Issue for Legal Immigrants in New York Mudassa Khan came to the United States from Pakistan as a teenager and now owns an electronics store in New York City. He said his family waited 12 years for legal permission to immigr

VOA标准英语2012--Manufacturer Adapts Factory Plant for Disabled Workers

Manufacturer Adapts Factory Plant for Disabled Workers The sewing machines at the Peckham factory in Lansing, Michigan, churn out 300,000 garments a month for the American military, from long underwear to fleece jackets. About 1,200 employees work tw

VOA标准英语2012--Teachers Taught to Combat Homophobia

Teachers Taught to Combat Homophobia The instructor training program begins with a staged scene. High school actors, playing high school students, walk into their English class talking about a teen who was beaten up the day before. If Travis wanted g

VOA标准英语2012--Bruce Springsteen Headlines Jazz Fest

Bruce Springsteen Headlines Jazz Fest Its been six years since Springsteen made his first appearance at Jazz Fest. New Orleans was still reeling from Hurricane Katrina which had devastated much of the city eight months earlier. His latest excursion m

VOA标准英语2012--New Studies on HIV Treatment as Prevention

New Studies on HIV Treatment as Prevention Recent studies have shown that antiretroviral drugs can be used not only to treat HIV, but also to prevent infection in the first place. Its called pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP for short. Now, the wester

VOA标准英语2012--Egyptian Presidential Hopeful Promises Islamic, Inclusive Future

Egyptian Presidential Hopeful Promises Islamic, Inclusive Future Morsi wasn't the first choice for president of the Islamist group, Muslim Brotherhood. But with its lead candidate disqualified, Morsi has grasped his role as an accidental front-runner

VOA标准英语2012--Cash-Strapped Pentagon to Boost Latin American Partnerships

Cash-Strapped Pentagon to Boost Latin American Partnerships Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stopped first in Colombia, where U.S. trained commandos welcomed him with a hostage rescue demonstration and other maneuvers at a base two hours from Bogota. C

VOA标准英语2012--Past Serves as Lesson in Sustainable Fishing

Past Serves as Lesson in Sustainable Fishing Protect the catch While some of the steps the ancient Hawaiians took to protect their catch are extreme by todays standards, conservation experts would find many of them familiar. When the first Europeans

VOA标准英语2012--American Seeks World Bank's Top Job

American Seeks World Bank's Top Job They have more than doubled the number of people on treatment in the last 18 months, said Kim. This is movement in the area of HIV/AIDS the like of which weve never seen before. Over the course of his career, Jim Y

VOA标准英语2012--US Neighborhood Watch Volunteers Help Protect Communities

US Neighborhood Watch Volunteers Help Protect Communities Baruti Jahi, a longtime Washington resident and father, knows he can't take his family's safety for granted. I'm up at four in the morning looking out my window because my dog is barking, and

VOA标准英语2012--Documentary Examines The Ordeal of Bullied Children

Documentary Examines The Ordeal of Bullied Children Tyler Long was a happy little boy. But at 17, he committed suicide because he was bullied at school, says his father David Long. We had heard that he had his head shoved into a wall locker. So kids

VOA标准英语2012--Economic Downturn Points to Uncertain Future in Afghanistan

Economic Downturn Points to Uncertain Future in Afghanistan Kabuls upscale Wazir Akhbar Khan district has long been home to foreign aid groups and the countrys wealthiest officials. Now, it is slowly emptying, as foreigners close down their operation

VOA标准英语2012--Colombian Competes for World Bank Presidency

Colombian Competes for World Bank Presidency International experience Jose Antonio Ocampo won praise as the head of Colombias Ministries of Finance, and Agriculture and as chief of its central bank, for boosting economic growth and investment. Ocampo