VOA标准英语2011--Diversity Can Enrich Workplace

Diversity Can Enrich Workplace As in many offices around the United States, people of different backgrounds work at the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington D.C. Richard Regan, a Native American, joined the IRS a year ago. A mem

VOA标准英语2011--Niger Seeks Help in Policing Border with

Niger Seeks Help in Policing Border with Libya Niger says it needs help policing more than six million square meters of desert along its border with Libya. Some members of the former government in Tripoli have fled south to Niger, including one of Mo

VOA标准英语2011--Disabled Surfers Hit the Beach

DisabledSurfersHittheBeach Learning to surf would be challenging for anyone, most especially someone like Dana Cummings, who mastered the sport after losing his leg in a car accident. Now, he shares his love of riding the waves with other people with

VOA标准英语2011--Malnutrition Rates Worsen at Newest Soma

Malnutrition Rates Worsen at Newest Somali Refugee Camp Humanitarian agencies say the condition of newly-arrived Somali refugees at camps in Ethiopia is deteriorating as famine spreads inside Somalia. At the Hilaweyn camp along the Somalia-Ethiopia b

VOA标准英语2011--Novel Explores How People React During N

Novel Explores How People React During Natural Disasters In August, as Hurricane Irene unleashed wind and rain along the U.S. East Coast, author John Shors found himself on a book tour, promoting his new novel, Cross Currents, which was inspired by t

VOA标准英语2011--Scientists Try to Develop Safer Sleeping

Scientists Try to Develop Safer Sleeping Sickness Cure Researchers say they've developed a safer way to treat sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease that is fatal if not treated. Sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis, is a chronic medical problem in

VOA标准英语2011--Book Chronicles Men's Evolution from Bre

Book Chronicles Men's Evolution from Bread-Winners to Bread-Bakers With many mothers working outside the home, more fathers - such as New Yorker editor and cartoonist John Donohue - are cooking for their families. Donohue wanted to chronicle men's ro

VOA标准英语2011--With President Absent, Yemen Battles Isl

With President Absent, Yemen Battles Islamist Militants Yemeni officials say government forces have killed 12 people suspected of links to al-Qaida as they battle to regain territory lost to Islamist militants in the south of the country. This comes

VOA标准英语2011--War Photographers in Harm's Way

War Photographers in Harm's Way War correspondents often place themselves in harm's way and, unavoidably, some die doing their jobs. Five have perished just this year in Libya, all of them photographers. Some wonder why photojournalists place their l

VOA标准英语2011--Bela Fleck The Flecktones 'Reunite'

Bela Fleck The Flecktones 'Reunite' Bela Fleck The Flecktones have reunited. Actually, they never broke up, but the award-winning fusion band has revived their original lineup for a new album called Rocket Science. Bela Fleck The Flecktones celebrate

VOA标准英语2011--US Woman Fights to Save Cheetahs

US Woman Fights to Save Cheetahs Since ancient times, people have regarded cheetahs with awe for their beauty, grace and unique ability to reach speeds of up to 110 kilometers per hour. But today, the species - which once ranged across Africa, India

VOA标准英语2011--Egyptian Islamist Calls for Tolerance of

Egyptian Islamist Calls for Tolerance of Coptic Christians Violence between Egypt's Coptic Christians and conservative Muslims has led to calls for tolerance from some unlikely sources. The allegiance of the men gathered outside a mosque in central A

VOA标准英语2011--With Elections on the Way, Tunisia Still

With Elections on the Way, Tunisia Still Unsettled Two months before scheduled elections, Tunisia remains a country in flux. Protests continue, discontented Tunisians are still migrating to Europe and the country is grappling with unrest spilling ove

VOA标准英语2011--How Much Did Pakistanis Know About bin L

How Much Did Pakistanis Know About bin Laden? The mansion in Abbottabad, Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was found and killed is at least six times the size of the typical house near it. Abbottabad is a military town, where many from the Pakistani mil

VOA标准英语2011--Amnesty International: Many Bahraini Pro

Amnesty International: Many Bahraini Protesters Shot, Some at Close Range The global rights group Amnesty International has a fact-finding team in Bahrain this week. Members have been meeting with government officials, human rights advocates and oppo

VOA标准英语2011--Mentoring USA Nurtures America’s Youth

Mentoring USA Nurtures Americas Youth Mentoring is a time-honored relationship, in which someone with more experience helps another with less, for purposes of growth, knowledge and support. That's the idea behind Mentoring USA, a New York based non-p

VOA标准英语2011--Libyan Opposition Seeks to Build Self-St

Lib yan Opposition Seeks to Build Self-Styled Government With fighting between opposition forces in Libya and forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in its third month (on April 17th), the rebels have begun to take steps to govern and administ

VOA标准英语2011-Peacekeeping Officials: ECOWAS Invasion o

Officials at former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's Peacekeeping Training Center say the threat of a West-Africa-led invasion of Ivory Coast is unlikely to materialize and would mostly aggravate the power crisis that has seized the country since

VOA标准英语2011-Kenya Benefits from $100 million Health P

Health Services in eastern and central Kenya are getting a big boost through a new $100 million dollar program. The U.S. development agency, USAID, has awarded the funds to an international non-profit organization affiliated with Johns Hopkins Univer

VOA标准英语2011-Life's Disorder Takes Center Stage in Com

The final novel by acclaimed Canadian author Mordecai Richler is now a motion picture starring American actor Paul Giamatti as the prickly and complex Barney Panofsky, recounting the high and low points of his checkered life. Here's a look at Barney'