VOA标准英语2012--After Japan, Experts Rethink Costs, Safety of Nuclear Power

After Japan, Experts Rethink Costs, Safety of Nuclear Power The power plant was designed to withstand the largest tsunami ever to hit Japan, a 1960 event linked to a 9.5 magnitude earthquake in Chile, the largest earthquake in recorded history. The e

VOA标准英语2012--Japanese Town Split by Radiation Evacuation Zone

Japanese Town Split by Radiation Evacuation Zone It is an extraordinary meeting of the Kawauchi village assembly. Because of severe damage to the village's municipal hall from the earthquake, the public gathering has been convened at a community cent

VOA标准英语2012--Saving the Lives of Mothers and Babies

Saving the Lives of Mothers and Babies A medical aid group says every day about one thousand women worldwide die in childbirth or from complications related to pregnancy. Doctors Without Borders says most of those deaths can be prevented. Its release

VOA标准英语2012--Former Torture Center Teaches Khmer Rouge History

Former Torture Center Teaches Khmer Rouge History Teacher Ser Sayana stands before a classroom of foreigners and tries to cover in 15 minutes the violent history of Cambodias Khmer Rouge. She says the course, sponsored by the Documentation Center of

VOA标准英语2012--New Internet Cafe Connects Afghan Women to World

New Internet Cafe Connects Afghan Women to World There is barely room to move as women crowd around laptop computers in this small cafe in central Kabul. The Afghan activist group YoungWomen4Change runs the cafe as a safe place where women can access

VOA标准英语2012--Agreement to Resume Iran Nuclear Talks Aims to Prevent Regional Arms Race

Agreement to Resume Iran Nuclear Talks Aims to Prevent Regional Arms Race The agreement to restart talks over Iran's nuclear program includes demands by permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany for concrete and practical steps to re

VOA标准英语2012--Arrests Do Not Deter 'Anonymous' Hackers

Arrests Do Not Deter 'Anonymous' Hackers Early this week the U.S. Attorney in New York indicted five alleged computer hackers. Authorities describe four of them as principal members of a loose hacker confederation known as Anonymous. Despite these an

VOA标准英语2012--US Surgeon General Says More Needed to Curb Teen Smoking

US Surgeon General Says More Needed to Curb Teen Smoking The report is a tome - nearly 900 pages long. Its focus is on how to prevent tobacco use among teenagers and young adults. Smoking among teens up While the overall rate of tobacco use has drast

VOA标准英语2012--Somali Refugees Face Insecurity Inside Dadaab Refugee Camp

Somali Refugees Face Insecurity Inside Dadaab Refugee Camp Inside Kenyas Dadaab refugee camp, 20-year-old Basharah speaks of violence in Somalia. She fled five months ago to create a better home for her child. Now, she worries Dadaab is not the chang

VOA标准英语2012--China's Rural Decline Documented in Photos

China's Rural Decline Documented in Photos He Chongyues camera captures portraits of some of the people China's rapid modernization has left behind, especially the people he calls the last true peasants. Why do I say that? Because afterwards, there w

VOA标准英语2012--For Black Actresses, Few Oscar-Worthy Roles

For Black Actresses, Few Oscar-Worthy Roles The box office hit The Help won an Oscar for best supporting actress. But Viola Davis, the film's lead actress, was passed over. In fact, only one African- American woman has ever won best actress in a lead

VOA标准英语2012--NY Libraries Serve as Job Placement Centers

NY Libraries Serve as Job Placement Centers Despite having a master's degree in finance, Sushana Guthrie was unemployed for two years before opening her small tax consulting business this past December in New York. Mindful that many new businesses fa

VOA标准英语2012--Mixed Future Awaits Hyper-Connected Youth

Mixed Future Awaits Hyper-Connected Youth For a long time, there was talk about Americas Generation X and then Generation Y, referring to our young people. Now the buzzword is millennials, since many of our teenagers and young adults were born in the

VOA标准英语2012--Electric Cars Face Issues in US

Electric Cars Face Issues in US Fate of the US electric car Volt owner Frederico Goodsaid can practically sneak up behind people. He says he likes the sheer silence of his electric car. Goodsaid also enjoys driving by these. I pass over 50 gas statio

VOA标准英语2012--Romney Leads Republican Race as Long Battle Looms

Romney Leads Republican Race as Long Battle Looms With victories in six of the 10 states on Super Tuesday [March 6], Romney is urging supporters to stay the course. And so we will go, day by day, step by step, door by door, heart to heart, said Romne

VOA标准英语2012--Photos Offer Insight into Artist Frida Kahlo

Photos Offer Insight into Artist Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo, who died in 1954, is one of Mexico's best-known artists. She was the subject of the 2002 movie Frida starring Salma Hayek. The 240 photos in the new exhibit at Artisphere in Arlington, Virgini

VOA标准英语2012--Russia's Democracy Movement Looks Ahead

Emergency Aid Being Sent to Stranded Chadians Emergency aid is being sent this week to about one thousand people mostly children stranded in a remote area of Chad. The International Organization for Migration says the Chadians fled violence in neighb

VOA标准英语2012--Emergency Aid Being Sent to Stranded Chadians

Emergency Aid Being Sent to Stranded Chadians Emergency aid is being sent this week to about one thousand people mostly children stranded in a remote area of Chad. The International Organization for Migration says the Chadians fled violence in neighb

VOA标准英语2012--Koreans, North and South, Train Cambodian Olympic Hopefuls

Koreans, North and South, Train Cambodian Olympic Hopefuls Chov Sotheara is one of only a few Cambodian athletes who could qualify for the London Olympics. Driven to win in a sport dominated by men, she says her strict North Korean coach, Pak So Nam,

VOA标准英语2012--Learning About Farm Animals at Houston Livestock Show

Learning About Farm Animals at Houston Livestock Show This is where cows get all prettied up for judging or auction. For families from farms and ranches, being around these animals is part of everyday life. But they are in the minority, says the Hous