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AS IT IS 2013-05-02 China Responds to a Major Earthquake, Art for Prosthetics and the Appeal of Superheroes Welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. Im Mario Ritter. A deadly earthquake has again struck Chinas Sichuan province. The quake was al
Tall, Stinky Plant is a Draw At US Botanic Garden An American royal was celebrated on Monday. It's called the titan arum, more commonly known as the Corpse Flower. It's famous for its unique odor - something like rotting flesh - which it uses to attr
Ken早上在饮水器旁见到同事Dan和April. K: Good morning, Dan. Good morning, April. DA: Hi, Ken. Good morning. K: So...have you heard the big news? A: No! Tell us! K: Well, you know Jason Smith? D: You mean our company's Chief Financial Offic
By Marianne Kearney Jakarta 13 May 2006 Mount Merapi in photo taken from Bebeng villages in Yogyakarta, central Java, May 13 2006 Indonesia has raised the alert level for the Merapi volcano in central
The Dutch coalition government has collapsed amid a political row over whether to extend the country's military mission in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende was due to submit his government's resignation to Queen Beatrix later Saturday
Central banks of the leading industrialized nations are working together to try to ease a financial crisis that originated in the United States but has roiled markets worldwide. From Washington, VOA's Michael Bowman reports. A Wall Street street sig
By Jim Teeple Gaza City 01 August 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will hold talks on Thursday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to revive the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians and bolster the moderate g
Rescuers in central Italy continue to search for possible survivors in the rubble of Monday's earthquake as funerals begin for the victims of the disaster. So far, the death toll is 279, which includes at least 20 children. Local and government auth
AILSA CHANG, HOST: On the Oscars telecast Sunday night, a presenter will read the names of five nominees for the best foreign language film. Missing from that list is one highly acclaimed film, Foxtrot from Israel. And critic Bob Mondello says that's
Actually, Arcturus is an omen of something far worse than the bad weather, a portended drama more intense than any of what you could imagine. When our own sun eventually becomes a red giant in 5 billion years time, it will turn into a destroyer rathe
-When they look at the skeletons that they were found down in the lower levels of the mine, one was actually covered by rubbles and all that sort of material just behind me here. The body was laying stretched out in the gallery as if going towards th
And with his colleagues, he did the calculations to prove it. The key was the conditions created in the final stages about massive stars fighting against its gravity. These stars are so massive and hot that they can go through a whole series of nucle
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 11 March 2008 Kenya's parliament has reconvened, with lawmakers planning to discuss a power-sharing accord between the country's two main parties. As Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi, a statement Monday by a government offici
The Oakville pier collapsed Saturday afternoon at 3:30. Although hundreds of people were on the pier at the time of the collapse, no one was killed and only 15 people were injured. One person was seriously injured. That person was a 43-year-old man w
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 26 February 2008 Negotiations between Kenya's government and the opposition have been suspended. As Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi, the two sides have been unable to agree on the terms of a power-sharing arrangement to brea
President Barack Obama's plan to aid millions of Americans who are at risk of losing their homes is getting a mixed review from state governors who gathered in Washington for a three-day meeting. A rash of home foreclosures helped plunge the United S
By Lisa Bryant Paris 20 March 2008 Belgium's new prime minister, Yves Leterme, was sworn in Thursday more than nine months after general elections that paralyzed the country. But from Paris, Lisa Bryant reports for VOA there are questions about just
By Cathy Majtenyi Uganda 05 June 2007 The Ugandan government has come up with an innovative program to distribute malaria drugs to patients living far from medical facilities. In some areas of Kiboga District, the program got a boost from the suppor
By Jessica Desvarieux Cairo 16 October 2009 Cairo residents try to protect themselves against the smell Cairo's streets are always dirty, but in recent months the usual piles of trash have gotten larger. The government's slaughter of Egypt's pigs, w
Building 建造 A little boy is on his knees scooping and packing the sand with plastic shovels into a bright blue bucket.Then he upends the bucket on the surface and lifts it. And, to the delight of the little architect, a castle tower is created. 一