VOA标准英语2012--Morsi: Egypt faces Challenges and Opportunities

Morsi: Egypt faces Challenges and Opportunities Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi Tuesday addressed the closing session of the Clinton Global Initiatives annual meeting. He spoke of the challenges facing his government and the region. President Morsi

VOA标准英语2012--Planned Parenthood Expands Services for Teens

Planned Parenthood Expands Services for Teens Planned Parenthood says it is expanding its services in Africa and Latin America. The organization made the announcement Tuesday at the Clinton Global Initiatives annual meeting in New York. Planned Paren

VOA标准英语2012--Americana Music Industry Hands Out Honors

Americana Music Industry Hands Out Honors Booker T. Jones of Booker T The MGs fame opened the two-and-a-half-hour-long awards ceremony by performing his classic hit Green Onions with a star-studded band that included Richard Thompson on electric guit

VOA标准英语2012--Kix Brooks Goes Solo on 'New To This Town'

Kix Brooks Goes Solo on 'New To This Town' The title track to Kix Brooks new solo album New To This Town features Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh. Brooks also brought in Rascal Flatts member Jay DeMarcus to co-produce the collection. Brooks recorded his f

VOA标准英语2012--Obama Calls Human Trafficking 'Slavery,' Announces New Measures

Obama Calls Human Trafficking 'Slavery,' Announces New Measures Calling the fight against human trafficking one of the great human rights causes of our time, Obama announced new steps to deal with a problem he called barbaric and evil with no place i

VOA标准英语2012--Colorado Hispanic Vote Important in 2012 Election

Colorado Hispanic Vote Important in 2012 Election On a hot day in Pueblo, Dominic Martinez goes house-to-house, trying to find voters who favored the Democratic Party four years ago. He has to contend with yapping dogs as well as people who are reluc

VOA标准英语2012--Schwarzenegger Becomes Policy Analyst

Schwarzenegger Becomes Policy Analyst The Los Angeles campus is the new stage for the Hollywood star, who brings his fame from movies like The Terminator and seven years experience as Californias governor, to an audience of students and visiting poli

VOA标准英语2012--Colorado May Determine 2012 Presidential Election

Colorado May Determine 2012 Presidential Election Thousands of Obama supporters were on the streets of the Denver suburb of Golden, Colorado recently, when the president came to visit. Obama won here four years ago and many of his supporters remain e

VOA标准英语2012--Leaders at UN Express Concern About Anti-Islam Violence, Syria

Leaders at UN Express Concern About Anti-Islam Violence, Syria Obama said the recent attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, was not just an attack on America, but upon the ideals on which the United Nati

VOA标准英语2012--Colorado Business Owners Divided about Presidential Politics

Colorado Business Owners Divided about Presidential Politics At Codi Manufacturing's plant in Golden, Colorado, 23 workers make equipment parts. Owner and manager Jared Jones says he would like to hire more people, but his costs keep going up. Every

VOA标准英语2012--Democrats, Republicans Battle Over Voter ID Laws

Democrats, Republicans Battle Over Voter ID Laws A court battle over the state of Pennsylvania's controversial voter identification law is being seen as a proxy in the battle between Republicans and Democrats. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has asked

VOA标准英语2012--Vietnamese-American Doctor Helps Rebuild Bodies, Lives

Vietnamese-American Doctor Helps Rebuild Bodies, Lives To his patients at the Methodist Hospital of Houston, Doctor Tue Dinh is a miracle worker. Barbara Martinez came to him for help after surgery to fix a hernia left her with a painful and dangerou

VOA标准英语2012--Order to Free Slaves 'Beginning of America Really Becoming America'

Order to Free Slaves 'Beginning of America Really Becoming America' It was a day of remembrance for those gathered at the footsteps of the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate 150 years since the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Congressman John Lew

VOA标准英语--Feed the Soil, Feed the Crops

Feed the Soil, Feed the Crops If African farmers are going to feed the continent, they may first want to feed the soil. Studies show farmland is often depleted of vital nutrients. But researchers say a combination of organic farming methods may help.

VOA标准英语2012--Acid Attacks Continue in Cambodia Despite Harsher Punishments

Acid Attacks Continue in Cambodia Despite Harsher Punishments For Som Bunnarith, memories of the day acid violence changed his life forever are as vivid in his mind as the scars on his skin. When it splashed on me, it felt hot. It even burned through

VOA标准英语2012--Clinton to Push Tougher Syria Policy at UN

Clinton to Push Tougher Syria Policy at UN World powers are divided over how to stop the violence in Syria - with Russia, China, and Iran supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - and the Gulf Arab states, Britain, France, and the United States b

VOA标准英语2012--CPJ: Journalists Need New Ways to Stay Safe

CPJ: Journalists Need New Ways to Stay Safe CPJ says the profession and the threats facing journalists have changed dramatically in the last decade. Digital technology allows a great many citizen journalists to be out in the field on their own, and m

VOA标准英语2012--Pakistan Prisons' Mother-and-Infant Program Gets Mixed Reviews

Pakistan Prisons' Mother-and-Infant Program Gets Mixed Reviews Mohib, aged five, has spent half his life in jail. His mother, a convicted murderer, brought her sons into prison with her two-and-a-half years ago. Sehar Bibi says her boys would rather

VOA标准英语2012--Aung San Suu Kyi Meets American Burmese

Aung San Suu Kyi Meets American Burmese It was an unusual scene for Americans -- but traditional for Buddhists. To see Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on the ground, revering monks who chant a blessing of love and kindness. The activist met with the

VOA标准英语2012--Aid Cuts Threaten Millennium Development Goals, Warns UN

Aid Cuts Threaten Millennium Development Goals, Warns UN Margaret Gift has brought her son Simplicious for a check-up at a mobile health clinic in the remote village of Chikhwawa in Malawi. His diarrhea can be treated on the spot. Health workers say