VOA标准英语2013--Scientists Race to Contain Malaria: New Discoveries, More Resistance

Scientists Race to Contain Malaria: New Discoveries, More Resistance Artemisinin has helped cut global malaria deaths by more than 25 percent over the past decade. But now, in parts of Southeast Asia, this drug no longer works. And the World Health O

VOA标准英语2013--Scientists Ponder 'Epoch' of Damage to Global Water System

Scientists Ponder 'Epoch' of Damage to Global Water System Scientists say a new geologic epoch has begun whereby humans are causing major damage to global water systems. They warn of a planetary transformation comparable to the retreat of the glacier

VOA标准英语2013--Calls Grow For An End to Sexual Assaults in US Military

Calls Grow For An End to Sexual Assaults in US Military More women are on active military duty than ever before. And as their numbers grow, so do the reports of sexual assaults. Calls to do something about it are growing. So not only is it a crime, n

VOA标准英语2013--Syrian Refugees Hunt for Work in Lebanon

Syrian Refugees Hunt for Work in Lebanon Near a construction site in central Beirut, Mahmoud, 20 -- he gives only his first name -- is selling bread from a bicycle cart. He fled his home in Aleppo a year ago as the uprising against the Assad governme

VOA标准英语2013--Fake Tanks, Ghost Army Helped Defeat Germans During WW ll

Fake Tanks, Ghost Army Helped Defeat Germans During WW ll Elaborate ruse In March 1945, after months of bitter fighting, the Germans had retreated behind the Rhine River, their natural frontier, to mount their final defense. For the Germans, the view

VOA标准英语2013--Syria's Civil War Fuels Violence in Iraq

Syria's Civil War Fuels Violence in Iraq Iraqis are witnessing the worst violence to rock their country in five years. Bombings and other attacks against Sunni Muslim and Shiite targets are stoking sectarian tensions. One major reason is the civil wa

VOA标准英语2013--Star Trek Influence Lives Long and Prospers

Volunteers Help Revive LA's Concrete River The starship Enterprise is well-known to viewers of the iconic Star Trek TV series and visitors to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, where the original model is on display in the g

VOA标准英语2013--Volunteers Help Revive LA's Concrete River

Volunteers Help Revive LA's Concrete River Thousands of volunteers turned out on a recent weekend to remove the trash that has been deposited by winter rain storms. The Los Angeles River was lined with concrete in the late 1930s and 1940s, after year

VOA标准英语2013--Safe Rooms Saved Lives in Tornado Disaster

Safe Rooms Saved Lives in Tornado Disaster The tornado that carved a path of destruction through Moore took 24 lives. Its winds were clocked at 400 kilometers per hour. With only 15 minutes warning, residents fled town or took refuge in the sturdiest

VOA标准英语2013--Amnesty: Growing Danger for Refugees

Amnesty: Growing Danger for Refugees Amnesty International says the world is growing more dangerous for refugees and migrants. The organizations annual report says the rights of millions of people who have escaped conflict and persecution -- or migra

VOA标准英语2013--Amnesty Report Highlights Refugee Plight

'Cash Mob' Phenomenon Supports Local Business What do you get when you mix a store's need for more business with enthusiastic local consumers? A cash mob. Organized through social media, the phenomenon is based on the concept of a flash mob, where la

VOA标准英语2013--'Cash Mob' Phenomenon Supports Local Business

'Cash Mob' Phenomenon Supports Local Business What do you get when you mix a store's need for more business with enthusiastic local consumers? A cash mob. Organized through social media, the phenomenon is based on the concept of a flash mob, where la

VOA标准英语2013--Qusair Fighting Drives More Syrians Into Lebanon

Qusair Fighting Drives More Syrians Into Lebanon At a refugee camp in Aarsal, a small Lebanese town lying just across the mountains from Syria, most of the people who have arrived in recent days came from Qusair. They were driven from their homes by

VOA标准英语2013--Asian Water Summit Focuses on Security, Disaster

Asian Water Summit Focuses on Security, Disaster There was no sign of a water shortage here in northern Thailand as delegates gathered for the Asia-Pacific Water summit. But inside, there was talk about an impending crisis facing Asia. For the region

VOA标准英语2013--'Dreamers' Give Human Face to Immigration Reform

'Dreamers' Give Human Face to Immigration Reform As U.S. lawmakers consider immigration reform, Brazilian born Renata Teodora wants them to think of her. Its important to at least share your story, share who you are so that people know you are not, y

VOA标准英语2013--Burma's $8.5 Billion Port Project Facing Hurdles

Burma's $8.5 Billion Port Project Facing Hurdles BANGKOK When Burma's planned Dawei deep-sea port and special economic zone are finished, a highway, railway and pipeline will connect Southeast Asia's largest industrial zone to Thailands primary comme

VOA标准英语2013--Gates Foundation Continues to Fight Tuberculosis

Gates Foundation Continues to Fight Tuberculosis WASHINGTON By Abigail Martin Tuberculosis, or TB, is spread when an infected person coughs or sneezes, dispersing the germmycobacterium TBinto the air. The World Health Organization says there were an

VOA标准英语2013--Zimmerman Trial Wrapping Up

Zimmerman Trial Wrapping Up For nearly two weeks jurors have been hearing what happened in this gated Florida community the night George Zimmerman went on patrol as a neighborhood watch coordinator and encountered 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Police d

Experts Fear Afghanistan 'Zero Option' May Have Repercussions

Experts Fear Afghanistan 'Zero Option' May Have Repercussions Afghanistan suffered from a bloody civil war in the 1990s. While different Afghan factions fought for the control of the country, analysts say nearby countries like Pakistan, India and Ira

VOA标准英语2013--Trade Tops US, China Talks Wednesday

Trade Tops US, China Talks Wednesday Chinese officials say an unexpected drop in trade, both imports and exports, reflects rising labor costs and weak overseas demand -- key concerns for the world's two largest economies as their foreign and finance