By Kent Klein White House 29 September 2009 President Barack Obama (right) and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at White House, 29 Sep 2009 The secretary general of NATO says he agrees with U.S. President Barack Obama's approach to the w

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(九月)

She was 31 years old, a seamstress and the mother of two children. Her husband is a mechanic. On a sunny morning, Vicky was walking to work. While in the crosswalk at Wilshire and Hamilton near Koreatown, Vicky was run over by a yellow school bus. An

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One year after the earthquake in Haiti, reconstruction is still in its infancy. No one expected the poorest country in the Western hemisphere to bounce back quickly from the quake that killed more than 200,000 people and left more than a million home

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 22 May 2008 A couple has embarked on a journey around Australia in a car powered by leftover vegetable oil from fish and chip shops. Rachel and Gerard Mimmo plan to drive 18,000 miles in a specially designed four-wheel drive. Fr

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Dad: What are you working on, honey? Mariko: Its a project for school about the Earth and its place in the universe. I have to write a report and build a model of what scientists can see with a telescope in space. Dad: I can help you with that. I was

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 13 February 2007 Even in African countries with overall low HIV infection rates, sex workers are many more times likely to carry the virus. In this second part of a five-part series on the most vulnerable groups to HIV infection

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By David McAlary Washington 20 April 2007 An international human rights group says child soldiers as young as 13 are serving in the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Human Rights Watch is urging the Congolese government to release the estimat

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By Cindy Saine Washington 22 August 2007 U.S. officials say a recent surge of violence in Afghanistan has not hurt reconstruction efforts in the eastern part of the country. U.S. officials based in Jalalabad briefed reporters Wednesday via satellite

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The chief of the United Nations refugee agency is in Afghanistan to highlight the difficulty in resettling the millions of Afghans displaced by decades of war. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Kabul. In a makeshift camp north of Kabul about 20 fami

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Front Street in Woodburn, Oregon, is lined with taquerias, stores displaying Mexican-style cowboy boots and hats, signs in Spanish and a bus station that offers tickets to the heart of Mexico. Migrant farm-workers started coming to Woodburn about 50

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十一)月

Birds and planes have been colliding since the Wright brothers first took to the air. There are dozens of bird strikes each day, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to airplanes each year, and putting the lives of passengers and crew me

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The first man to set foot on the moon has hailed the space race of the 1950s and '60s as an example of peaceful competition between rival superpowers. Legendary U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong spoke at Washington's Air and Space Museum Sunday on the e

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By David McAlary Washington 12 January 2006 As astronomers detect more and more planets outside our solar system, they are finding that many of them have more than one sun, unlike Earth and its compan

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By Brian Wagner Miami 06 February 2007 A U.S. astronaut has been arrested for allegedly trying to kidnap and kill a female Air Force officer. From Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports that incident with Lisa Nowak involved an apparent rivalry over the

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By David McAlary Washington 10 July 2006 U.S. space shuttle astronauts are on their second spacewalk in three days, acting as orbiting mechanics at the International Space Station. They are making repairs to the outpost's cooling system and its rail

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By David McAlary Washington 14 September 2006 Astronomers have found that the universe began lighting up in its infancy. They have observed the most distant and oldest galaxies ever seen, small galaxies that helped lift the cosmos out of its dark ag

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By Meredith Buel Washington 19 March 2007 Americans who are for and against the war in Iraq continue to mark the fourth anniversary of the conflict by demonstrating and speaking to the news media in cities around the country. VOA correspondent Mered

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By Bill Rodgers Washington 10 July 2007 President Bush is facing mounting pressure to change his Iraq policy as the U.S. Senate begins debate on military spending priorities. The pressure is not just coming from opposition Democrats, but from some se

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Both major U.S. presidential candidates and their running mates reacted Monday to the financial turmoil on Wall Street in the wake of the bankruptcy announcement from the investment bank Lehman Brothers. As VOA National correspondent Jim Malone repo

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Voter turnout is expected to soar in the U.S. presidential election in November, following record participation in several primaries earlier this year. Experts say the flood of new voters may strain polling stations, creating added pressure especial

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