VOA标准英语2011-Number of Haitians Living in Displacement

The International Organization for Migration reports a significant drop in the number of Haitians living in displacement camps. IOM reports for the first time since the catastrophic earthquake struck a year ago, the camp population in Haiti has gone

VOA标准英语2011-Tunisia Announces New Unity Government

Tunisia's prime minister has announced a transitional government that includes members of the opposition. He also eased restrictions on the press and human-rights groups. But the old regime holds the top posts and hundreds of people demonstrated agai

VOA标准英语2011-Woman Saddles Up in a Man's World

Nancy Martiny has made it in a man's world. She started making western saddles as a hobby but there's now a three-year waiting list of people lined up to buy her designs. Martiny builds her saddles from the ground up, eventually carving and stamping

VOA标准英语2011-Hezbollah Tribunal Move Is Transparent Ef

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday said the effort by Hezbollah to undermine the U.N.-backed tribunal in Lebanon is a transparent effort to subvert justice that is destined to fail. Clinton discussed the Lebanese government crisis with

VOA标准英语2011--Tunisian Americans Celebrate First Free Elections Since 1956

Tunisian Americans Celebrate First Free Elections Since 1956 Tunisians voted Sunday in what many are calling the political rebirth of the country. The Ennahdha party, a moderate Islamist group, looked set to win the most seats in early counting. Tuni

VOA标准英语2011--LMFAO Tops Charts on Sophomore Album

LMFAO Tops Charts on Sophomore Album The duo LMFAO formed in 2006 in Los Angeles, California. Its party-oriented dance hit Party Rock Anthem reached number one on the U.S. pop singles list, while also pulling a record-setting 200 million views on You

VOA标准英语2011--Yemeni Troops Fire into Crowds, Dozens o

Yemeni Troops Fire into Crowds, Dozens of Casualties Security forces loyal to embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh fired at protesters and armed dissidents in the capital Sana'a Saturday, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens. Earli

VOA标准英语2011--Communication-Based Revolution Mobilizes

Communication-Based Revolution Mobilizes Senegalese Youth Senegal's president is facing the most serious political unrest of his career just months before seeking re-election to a third term. Aligned against him is a group of young Senegalese musicia

VOA标准英语2011--Contemporary Events Inspire Arab Hip-Hop Artist

Contemporary Events Inspire Arab Hip-Hop Artist A Moroccan woman who only discovered her talent as a hip-hop performer when she came to study in London is now at the forefront of this musical genre. Master Mimz delivered her own commentary on the Ara

VOA标准英语2011--Pooch Parks Are All the Rage

Pooch Parks Are All the Rage A popular trend in American landscape architecture is the dog park or, as the Chicago Tribune newspaper calls it, the bark park. There are now thousands of these fenced areas for dogs to play off-leash, some of which have

VOA标准英语2011--Challenges Slow Kenyan Cotton Industry's

Challenges Slow Kenyan Cotton Industry's Rebound Kenyas fledgling cotton industry has been picking up in recent months with a spike in world prices for cotton. But the once-flourishing business still has a lot of obstacles to overcome to increase the

VOA标准英语2011--MRI-like Scan May Help Identify Alzheime

MRI-like Scan May Help Identify Alzheimer's Alzheimer's disease normally gets a definitive diagnosis only after the patient dies, and an autopsy finds certain distinctive structures in the brain. Recently, though, scientists have been seeking some so

VOA标准英语2011--Athletic, Muslim, Fashionable - a Tale o

Athletic, Muslim, Fashionable - a Tale of the Sports Hijab Female Muslim athletes who observe a strict Islamic dress code sometimes face the question of whether they will be allowed to participate in major competitions -- with their heads and most of

VOA标准英语2011--Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachman

Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann wins Iowa Straw Poll Fourteen months before voters in the United States will choose a President in the general election, Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, originally from Iowa, won a crucial early te

VOA标准英语2011--Remains of Crashed US Helicopter Still L

Remains of Crashed US Helicopter Still Lie in Mogadishu Somalia, now in the grip of famine, is also remembered as the scene of the Black Hawk Down incident, in which two U.S. helicopters were destroyed and 18 American soldiers killed in 1993. One of

VOA标准英语2011--Warnings of Horn Drought Came Early

Warnings of Horn Drought Came Early 非洲之角干旱早有预警 Experts say there was plenty of warning that the Horn of Africa was likely to experience severe drought. Nevertheless, millions of people are now at risk. 专家表示，此前已经做

VOA标准英语2011--'Serial Killer' Cells Demolish Leukemia

'Serial Killer' Cells Demolish Leukemia Tumors U.S. researchers say they've been able to modify a patient's immune system T cells, turning them into serial killer cells which zero in on cancer and obliterate it. Its being called a breakthrough in the

VOA标准英语2011--Aid Agencies Face Conflict, Shortages in

Aid Agencies Face Conflict, Shortages in Mogadishu 摩加迪沙难民状况不容乐观 More than 300,000 Somalis are seeking refuge from drought and famine in the capital Mogadishu. But, because of security problems, many aid agencies have been unab

VOA标准英语2011--【翻译】Ivory Coast Refugees Settle

Ivory Coast Refugees Settle In for Long Stay in Liberia 大量科特迪瓦难民仍未回国 Ivorian refugees who backed former president Laurent Gbagbo say the new government in Abidjan has not made it safe enough for them to return home. Amnesty In

VOA标准英语2011--Studies: How Whales, Fish Might Adapt To

Studies: How Whales, Fish Might Adapt To Warming Ocean Two new science studies provide a glimpse of how some important Pacific Ocean sea creatures could adapt to a changing climate. One study describes how gray whales successfully adapted to previous