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US Drought Linked to Climate Change Parched earth In Texas, the earth is parched. Rivers have dried up, and pasture land has turned brown from the heat. Its been this way since January 2011. The southwestern state is the fourth largest producer of ri

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Online Classes May Force Changes at Universities This is pretty amazing, said the University of Virginia's David Evans, teaching an online introduction to Computer Science. Online classes are now taught by many top universities and offer everything f

VOA标准英语2012--Tree Deaths Linked to Climate Change

Tree Deaths Linked to Climate Change Stanford University graduate student William Anderegg has seen this forest die-off firsthand. His doctoral thesis documents the impact of drought on trembling aspen, the most common tree in North America. These ar

VOA标准英语2012--Libya's Former Rebels Pose Challenge

Libya's Former Rebels Pose Challenge A year and a half ago, electrical engineer Omran Al-Awayeb took up arms to defend his neighborhood against Gadhafi forces. Now he commands a part-time band of rebels who are still worried about their country's fut

VOA标准英语2012--Small Island States Tackle Climate Change

Small Island States Tackle Climate Change Experts from more than 50 small island countries are meeting this week in Mauritius to discuss climate change and food security. The so-called Small Island Developing States are home to more than 50 million p

VOA标准英语2012--'The Bricklayer' Details Iranian Exile Experience on Stage

'The Bricklayer' Details Iranian Exile Experience on Stage Even in last-minute rehearsals on a bare stage, the power of The Bricklayer's story comes through, as well as the sadness at its core. This opera tells of one family's suffering, the son exec

VOA标准英语2012--Economists Say Steep Challenges Await Next Administration

Economists Say Steep Challenges Await Next Administration Under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years, said Obama. Since the president [Obama] has been president, the cost of gasoline has doub

VOA标准英语2012--Age One of Many Deciding Factors for Heart Transplants

Age One of Many Deciding Factors for Heart Transplants Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney continues his recovery after undergoing heart transplant surgery March 24 at the age of 71. The vice president's operation has sparked a public debate over

VOA标准英语2012--New World Bank Chief to Face Many Challenges

New World Bank Chief to Face Many Challenges President Obama has nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to be the next World Bank president. Since 1944, an American citizen has always led the institution. But with the growing strength of

VOA标准英语--2011 Saw Challenges of Hunger and Poverty

2011 Saw Challenges of Hunger and Poverty The Worldwatch Institute said in 2011 far too many people were living with less than they needed. It says, for example, nearly one billion people were hungry and just as many were illiterate. Worldwatch Insti

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Democrats in the US Congress are racing to pass health care reform legislation. Currently, people in their 20s are the largest group in the United States without health insurance. With skyrocketing health care costs, those with low incomes often cann

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Pioneering Reporter Helped Change Face of US TV News Through the first half of the 20th century, as television became a fixture in U.S. homes, the reporters Americans saw on TV were white, and almost all men. That began to change in the 1960s. Africa

VOA标准英语2012--Kurds Have New Hopes Amid Mideast Changes

Kurds Have New Hopes Amid Mideast Changes It's lunchtime, and kebabs are on the grill at a newly-opened Kurdish restaurant in the Washington area. Hekmat Bamarni came here from northern Iraq in the 1970s, and he sits at a table in the restaurant with

VOA标准英语2012--New Study Could Change Treatment For Asthma

New Study Could Change Treatment For Asthma Most adults who have mild or moderate asthma are told to use their inhalers twice daily, even if they don't have symptoms. The medicine in those compressed-air inhalers are corticosteroids, which open a per

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Global financier George Soros will give $100 million to Human Rights Watch. U.S. financier George Soros has made a $100-million matching grant to Human Rights Watch through his New York-based Open Society Foundations. The global recession has taken a

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The Egyptian village of Kafr Torky lies along the banks of the Nile, seemingly a world away from the passions that played out further north, in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Yet even in such a bucolic setting, the demonstrations and ultimate victory of the

VOA标准英语2013--Obama Security Team Faces New Challenges, New Priorities

Obama Security Team Faces New Challenges, New Priorities In nominating former Senator Chuck Hagel as defense secretary, President Obama acknowledged that his team will deal with a changing world. Ending the war in Afghanistan and caring for those who

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: General Electric is one of the most storied corporations in American history co-founded by Thomas Edison and redefined by legendary CEO Jack Welch. For more than a century, GE's products, from dishwashers to MRI machines, c

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The data recorded by the two black boxes onboard GE222 of Taiwan has been successfully downloaded in full. Officials from Taiwans aviation safety council said at a press conference Saturday that this is fortunate news, because both black boxes were s