VOA标准英语2013--Annual Event Helps Torture Treatment Center

Annual Event Helps Torture Treatment Center For 26 years Rossana Perez has spent her free time running in a park near downtown Los Angeles. It really clears my thoughts and helps me to release stress, Perez said. Much of that stress comes from memori

VOA标准英语2013--Scientists Race to Contain Malaria: New Discoveries, More Resistance

Scientists Race to Contain Malaria: New Discoveries, More Resistance Artemisinin has helped cut global malaria deaths by more than 25 percent over the past decade. But now, in parts of Southeast Asia, this drug no longer works. And the World Health O

VOA标准英语2013--Scientists Ponder 'Epoch' of Damage to Global Water System

Scientists Ponder 'Epoch' of Damage to Global Water System Scientists say a new geologic epoch has begun whereby humans are causing major damage to global water systems. They warn of a planetary transformation comparable to the retreat of the glacier

VOA标准英语2013--Calls Grow For An End to Sexual Assaults in US Military

Calls Grow For An End to Sexual Assaults in US Military More women are on active military duty than ever before. And as their numbers grow, so do the reports of sexual assaults. Calls to do something about it are growing. So not only is it a crime, n

VOA标准英语2013--Syrian Refugees Hunt for Work in Lebanon

Syrian Refugees Hunt for Work in Lebanon Near a construction site in central Beirut, Mahmoud, 20 -- he gives only his first name -- is selling bread from a bicycle cart. He fled his home in Aleppo a year ago as the uprising against the Assad governme

VOA标准英语2013--Fake Tanks, Ghost Army Helped Defeat Germans During WW ll

Fake Tanks, Ghost Army Helped Defeat Germans During WW ll Elaborate ruse In March 1945, after months of bitter fighting, the Germans had retreated behind the Rhine River, their natural frontier, to mount their final defense. For the Germans, the view

VOA标准英语2013--Syria's Civil War Fuels Violence in Iraq

Syria's Civil War Fuels Violence in Iraq Iraqis are witnessing the worst violence to rock their country in five years. Bombings and other attacks against Sunni Muslim and Shiite targets are stoking sectarian tensions. One major reason is the civil wa

VOA标准英语2013--Star Trek Influence Lives Long and Prospers

Volunteers Help Revive LA's Concrete River The starship Enterprise is well-known to viewers of the iconic Star Trek TV series and visitors to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, where the original model is on display in the g

VOA标准英语2013--Volunteers Help Revive LA's Concrete River

Volunteers Help Revive LA's Concrete River Thousands of volunteers turned out on a recent weekend to remove the trash that has been deposited by winter rain storms. The Los Angeles River was lined with concrete in the late 1930s and 1940s, after year

VOA标准英语2013--Safe Rooms Saved Lives in Tornado Disaster

Safe Rooms Saved Lives in Tornado Disaster The tornado that carved a path of destruction through Moore took 24 lives. Its winds were clocked at 400 kilometers per hour. With only 15 minutes warning, residents fled town or took refuge in the sturdiest

VOA标准英语2013--Amnesty: Growing Danger for Refugees

Amnesty: Growing Danger for Refugees Amnesty International says the world is growing more dangerous for refugees and migrants. The organizations annual report says the rights of millions of people who have escaped conflict and persecution -- or migra

VOA标准英语2013--Amnesty Report Highlights Refugee Plight

'Cash Mob' Phenomenon Supports Local Business What do you get when you mix a store's need for more business with enthusiastic local consumers? A cash mob. Organized through social media, the phenomenon is based on the concept of a flash mob, where la

VOA标准英语2013--'Cash Mob' Phenomenon Supports Local Business

'Cash Mob' Phenomenon Supports Local Business What do you get when you mix a store's need for more business with enthusiastic local consumers? A cash mob. Organized through social media, the phenomenon is based on the concept of a flash mob, where la

VOA标准英语2013--Qusair Fighting Drives More Syrians Into Lebanon

Qusair Fighting Drives More Syrians Into Lebanon At a refugee camp in Aarsal, a small Lebanese town lying just across the mountains from Syria, most of the people who have arrived in recent days came from Qusair. They were driven from their homes by

VOA标准英语2013--Asian Water Summit Focuses on Security, Disaster

Asian Water Summit Focuses on Security, Disaster There was no sign of a water shortage here in northern Thailand as delegates gathered for the Asia-Pacific Water summit. But inside, there was talk about an impending crisis facing Asia. For the region

VOA标准英语2013--New Standards Approved for Extractive Industries

'Cash Mob' Phenomenon Supports Local Business What do you get when you mix a store's need for more business with enthusiastic local consumers? A cash mob. Organized through social media, the phenomenon is based on the concept of a flash mob, where la

VOA标准英语2013--Rights Group Accuses Nigerian Military of 'Cover-Up'

Rights Group Accuses Nigerian Military of 'Cover-Up' The rights group said satellite images following last month's violence in the northern Nigerian town of Baga show more than 2,000 buildings destroyed. Nigeria's military says only several dozen hom

VOA标准英语2013--Chemical Weapons in Syria Fit Pattern of Escalation

Chemical Weapons in Syria Fit Pattern of Escalation U.S. intelligence agencies believe it is likely the Syrian government has used the lethal nerve agent sarin. But President Obama says the evidence is not strong enough for the U.S. to take action. W

VOA标准英语2013--Kerry in Ethiopia for Security Talks

Kerry in Ethiopia for Security Talks Soldiers from the European Union are helping train Malian troops to fight insurgents linked to al-Qaida terrorists. The deployment of a regional intervention force to replace French and Chadian troops in Mali is a

VOA标准英语2013--Demand Grows for Global Ban on 'Killer Robots'

Demand Grows for Global Ban on 'Killer Robots' A human-sized robot joined campaigners outside the British Parliament last month to highlight what they say are the imminent dangers of automated weapons systems - or killer robots. Among them was Americ