VOA标准英语2010年-Old Hands See a New Era for Green Inve

Speakers at the conference on alternative investments said Monday that an increasing number of shareholders want assurances that their investments are environmentally friendly. And they want them return a healthy yield. One of the speakers is Mary Bu

VOA标准英语2010年-US Fighter Jet Powered by Plant Fuel

The roar of jet engines splits the air over the U.S. Navy's testing grounds in Patuxent River, Maryland, as an F-18 fighter plane takes to the skies. Powering this supersonic jet fighter is a fuel that is 50 percent petroleum-based and 50 percent der

VOA标准英语2010年-For Palestinian Refugees at Shatila, '

This week's Middle East peace summit in Washington is setting a goal of one year to resolve what are known as final status issues -- the most intractable of Israeli-Palestinian problems. Among them is the right of return, which will determine the fat

VOA标准英语2010年-Touch That Heals May be Your Own

If you've ever hurt yourself - bumped a leg or arm while walking, maybe - you might have instinctively grabbed the place that hurt, and that seemed to ease the pain. Now, new research on pain and self touch explores why that is. To study the phenomen

VOA标准英语2010年-Insurance Initiative Could Protect Far

In Kenya, the specter of drought is never far from the minds of the millions who make their living on the farm. Agriculture is Kenya's most important product. The industry employs nearly three quarters of the country's workers and accounts for almost

VOA标准英语2010年-Vancouver Activists Rally in Support o

The Thai cargo ship MV Sun Sea arrived on Vancouver Island in Canada last month, carrying nearly 500 Tamils fleeing Sri Lanka. They claim to have faced murder, kidnapping and extortion back home and are now seeking refugee status. The Canadian govern

VOA标准英语2010年-New York Museum Shows Steiglitz Photog

Alfred Stieglitz is considered a central figure in the history of photography. He lived most of his life in New York and in the early years of the 20th century documented the city's transformation into a grand metropolis. But Stieglitz's New York als

VOA标准英语2010年-Vatican Condemns Quran Burning

A U.S. church's plan to burn a copy of the Quran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks has drawn global condemnation. The Vatican has denounced the plan as outrageous and grave. The Vatican office responsible for relations with Islam issued

VOA标准英语2010年-Unintended Acceleration Problems Persi

The U.S. Transportation Department is looking into complaints from some Toyota owners who say they are still experiencing problems with unintended acceleration even after repairs to their recalled vehicles. The complaints raise concerns that safety i

VOA标准英语2010年-Israeli Military to Launch its Own Flo

This video image released by the Turkish Aid group IHH Monday, 31 May 2010, purports to show Israeli soldiers aboard a military vessel in international waters off the Gaza coast surrounding a Turkish ship Israel's military is launching its own invest

VOA标准英语2010年-Divers Find Oil Under Surface; BP Cont

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirms that some of the oil escaping from that ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is staying beneath the surface, raising new environmental concerns about the disaster. BP says there is no

VOA标准英语2010年-Allegations of Brutality Dramatized in

Australian Mamdouh Habib is starring in a play about the years he spent imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, under suspicion of training militants and having prior knowledge of the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. Waiting for Mamdouh details his

VOA标准英语2010年-Cases of Domestic Violence Increase in

Florence Wanjiku lived that life for 10 years with her husband, an alcoholic. She describes one drunken night. He went to the kitchen, grabbed the wooden spoon, came with it, started beating me up the way you beat a little child, using a stick or som

VOA标准英语2010年-Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Fishermen's L

McAnespy brothers fear their way of life will not return Jeff Swicord | Port Sulphur, Louisiana 04 May 2010 Louis McAnespy is a third-generation commercial fishermen from Louisiana who fears he will lose his livelihood due to the fishing ban imposed

VOA标准英语2010年-On Memorial Day, Remembering US War De

Monday was observed as Memorial Day, a day to pause and reflect on the many who have died serving in the military. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden attended services to honor the dead. Some of those who died gave their lives not fo

VOA标准英语2010年-USAID Polio Eradication Director Says

In the early 1950s a worldwide epidemic of polio was in full swing. In the United States alone, 58,000 cases of this highly infectious and crippling disease were reported in 1952. Vaccines - which can prevent, but not cure polio - halted its spread i

VOA标准英语2010年-Terrorists: Criminals or Enemy Combata

How will alleged perpetrators of terrorism be prosecuted, in federal court or by military tribunals? The prospect of trying the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks in US federal court, and the criminal charges filed in Detroit against Chri

VOA标准英语2010年-Living Off the Land, Naturally

Experimental prairie farm designed to prove farmers can make a living off native grasses Johanna Sailor | Brookings, South Dakota 12 February 2010 Photo: Courtesy EcoSun Prairie Farm EcoSun Prairie Farm is intended to be a working model of agricultur

VOA标准英语2010年-US Marines: Taliban Insurgents Mostly

Three weeks after U.S. Marines and Afghan Army soldiers launched the largest military offensive in Afghanistan since 2001, a top American commander said Thursday that most of the insurgents have been cleared from the Taliban enclave of Marja. On Febr

VOA标准英语2010年-Thai Protesters Galvanized by Ousted E

Many of the protesters who occupied parts of Bangkok for two months came from Thailand's rural northeast. They want new elections because their benefactor, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawtra, and politicians loyal to him, were removed by the mil