美国国家公共电台 NPR V.S. Naipaul, Controversial Author And Nobel Laureate, Dies At 85

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: V.S. Naipaul, winner of the Nobel Prize, has died. The 85-year-old author was at his home in London. Perhaps best known for his novel A Bend In The River, Naipaul was a controversial figure in the literary world. NPR's Lynn

2006年VOA标准英语-Nobel Laureate: Alleviating Poverty Key to Main

By Stephanie Ho Washington 20 November 2006 This year's Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Muhammad Yunus, says the award is shining the international spotlight on the fundamental link between alleviating poverty and maintaining peace. He spoke to reporte

2006年VOA标准英语-Nobel Laureate Yunus Helps Neediest in Banglade

By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 13 October 2006 The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winners, Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank, have lifted millions of people out of poverty in Bangladesh. Yunus pioneered the concept of microfinance, giving small loans to ver

2006年VOA标准英语-Nobel Laureate Friedman Dies at 94

By Paul Francuch Chicago 16 November 2006 Professor Milton Friedman, hailed by some as perhaps the 20th century's greatest champion of capitalism and economic freedom, is dead at the age of 94. Dr. Milton Friedman, 1976 Nobel Prize winner for econom

VOA英语2010年-Nation's Poet Laureate Sounds the Alarm

American writer W.S. Merwin has been named by the Librarian of Congress as the nation's 17th Poet Laureate. The honor tops Merwin's long list of achievements, which includes over 50 volumes of poetry, prose, criticism and translation, two Pulitzer Pr

VOA慢速英语2013 娜塔莎崔德威连任美国桂冠诗人

U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Gets Second Term娜塔莎崔德威连任美国桂冠诗人 Hello again, and welcome back for more As It Is. Im June Simms with VOA Learning English. Today, we hear about Natasha Tretheways appointment to a second

2007年VOA标准英语-Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Laureate to Enter Polit

By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 21 February 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus says he will start a new political party in Bangladesh to give a fresh democratic culture to the country. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi that most people ha

VOA标准英语2012--World Food Prize Laureate Heads Global Food Security Center

World Food Prize Laureate Heads Global Food Security Center Gebisa Ejetas air conditioned office at Purdue University is a world away from the one-room thatched hut with mud floors where he grew up in Ethiopia. There wasnt any school in the community

VOA标准英语2010年-Kenyan Nobel Laureate Urges Support fo

Kenyan environmentalist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai (file photo) One week before an international conference convenes in Uganda to reaffirm the mandate of the International Criminal Court, Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai has call

VOA标准英语2011--Poet Kay Ryan Named MacArthur Fellow

PoetKayRyanNamedMacArthurFellow The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named 22 new MacArthur fellows on Tuesday. They'll receive Genius awards, which come with a no-strings attached grant of $500,000 over five years. The diverse grantees

VOA标准英语2010年-World Food Prize Laureate Encouraged b

The winner of the 2010 World Food Prize says eradicating hunger is within reach. The comment came as the United Nations prepares to hold its summit next week (9/20-22) on the Millennium Development Goals. Rev. David Beckmann says he's encouraged by e

VOA标准英语2009年-Nobel Laureate Announces Growth of Micro-L

Global recognition including the Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom has not kept Muhammad Yunus from his main goal - getting people out of poverty with the help of small loan-interest loans. The Nobel Laureate announced that his

VOA标准英语2009年-Nobel Laureate Former S. Korean President

Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has died in Seoul at the age of 85. He had been hospitalized since last month for pneumonia. Mr. Kim was credited with ushering a new era of reconciliation with wartime enemy North Korea. His own life story

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Like A Jazz Musician': Past Poet Laureate Philip Levine's Posthumous LP

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Since the age of Homer, poetry has been performed with music. Jazz and poetry have been paired up frequently ever since the beat poets and the beboppers got together in the 1950s. A new addition to that canon features Pulitzer Priz

美国国家公共电台 NPR Tracy K. Smith Named U.S. Poet Laureate

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Library of Congress today named Tracy K. Smith as the nation's new poet laureate. NPR's Lynn Neary spoke with her about her new role. LYNN NEARY, BYLINE: Tracy K. Smith is keenly aware that she's taking on the job of the nati

VOA标准英语2011--US Poet Laureate Captures Struggles of W

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VOA标准英语2009-Iranian Nobel Laureate Ebadi Criticizes Huma

By Margaret Besheer United Nations 12 November 2009 Shirin Ebadi (file photo) Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi urged the international community Wednesday to throw its support behind a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning the lack of human rights