VOA标准英语2013--US Unveils Green Supercomputer

US Unveils Green Supercomputer Lined up in a sprawling room on the second floor of Argonne National Laboratorys Theory and Computing Sciences building is the future of supercomputing. Argonne Director Eric Isaacs says MIRA can go where few computers

VOA标准英语2013--Campaign Begins to Ensure Free Press

Campaign Begins to Ensure Free Press The African Union has launched an effort to rid East Africa of colonial-era defamation and sedition laws. Since independence, many countries have used them to clamp down on freedom of the press. The effort to have

VOA标准英语2013--Researchers Record Iceberg Breaking Loud as an Earthquake

Researchers Record Iceberg Breaking Loud as an Earthquake The sound can be mistaken as a stringed instrument like a double bass, or maybe some kind of truck on the highway. But it actually is an iceberg, in the Antarctic Weddell Sea, grinding slowly

VOA标准英语2013--Morsi Overthrow Divides Mideast, Deepens Turmoil

Morsi Overthrow Divides Mideast, Deepens Turmoil With Egypt's ouster of the Islamist president in the limelight, Syria's brutal civil war has been out of the headlines in recent days. But President Bashar al-Assad is using Egypt's crisis as propagand

VOA标准英语2013--DRC Army Advances in 4th Day of Battle

DRC Army Advances in 4th Day of Battle The scene is a government army position at mid-afternoon Wednesday, just after the M23 had started targeting some nearby tanks. You men get forward, the sergeant is shouting. Where are you retreating for? Get in

VOA标准英语2013--New Software Tells Who's in the Forest and Who Isn't

New Software Tells Who's in the Forest and Who Isn't If you listen closely to a recording of a rainforest in Puerto Rico, you probably will not be able to count how many frogs you hear. Unfortunately, one of those frogs - the one with the really high

VOA标准英语2013--Environment May Affect Development of Language

Environment May Affect Development of Language There are about 7,000 languages in the world, and they are constantly evolving and changing. But it's a bit of a mystery why languages change the way they do. Anthropologist Caleb Everett of the Universi

VOA标准英语2013--Kerry: Syrian Refugee Crisis Challenges International Community

Kerry: Syrian Refugee Crisis Challenges International Community Secretary Kerry and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh came to the Zaatari camp, where nearly 120,000 people are living in what has become a small city scraped out of a dry plain 12

VOA标准英语2013--Peres: Kerry Making Progress on Resuming Mideast Talks

Peres: Kerry Making Progress on Resuming Mideast Talks As Palestinian leaders met in the West Bank to discuss Kerry's push to restart talks on a two-state solution, Israeli President Shimon Peres, speaking in Jerusalem, said U.S. efforts are moving t

VOA标准英语2013--Playwright Explores Lebanon's Sectarian Divide

Playwright Explores Lebanon's Sectarian Divide Actor Ziad Itani is portraying the women in Tarik al Jadidah and the scrutiny they face when it comes to marriage. Societal norms dictate that women must choose the right man, from the right family, and

VOA标准英语2013--US Foreign Policy on Gay Rights Sparks Debate

US Foreign Policy on Gay Rights Sparks Debate Living now in relative freedom and security in New York City, artist and filmmaker Alexander Kargaltsev remembers the harassment and violence he suffered as a gay man in his native Russia. I went to the d

VOA标准英语2013--Pirate Attacks Falling in 2013

Pirate Attacks Falling in 2013 The number of pirate attacks worldwide has fallen in the first half of 2013. However, maritime officials are warning that the waters off West Africa are growing more dangerous. International Maritime Bureau Director Pot

VOA标准英语2013--High Tech Cotton Gin Offers Secure Future for Farmers

High Tech Cotton Gin Offers Secure Future for Farmers Olam International, a leading global integrated supply chain manager, that has been active in Mozambique for 15 years, announced this year, the construction of its first state-of-the-art roller co

VOA标准英语2013--India Marks End of Era with Last Telegram

India Marks End of Era with Last Telegram Most Sunday afternoons, one would be hard-pressed to find anyone at the Central Telegraph Office in New Delhi - let alone people lined up in the rain. But this day is different. For engineer Rasmeet Chawla -

VOA标准英语2013--Upheaval Crushes Tourism in Egypt

Upheaval Crushes Tourism in Egypt Tourism in Egypt has been the country's major source of cash. Until two years ago when revolution hit the streets. Magdi Sheko says the constant upheaval has scared away tourists. The economy, he says, is a disaster.

VOA标准英语2013--Volunteers Help Scientists in Search for Cheap Solar Cells

Volunteers Help Scientists in Search for Cheap Solar Cells Most of today's solar cells are silicone-based and their manufacture requires sophisticated machinery and expertise. An average home in the United States uses between 20 and 24 kilowatt hours

VOA标准英语2013--Lifestyle Changes May Ease Heart, Stroke Risk

Lifestyle Changes May Ease Heart, Stroke Risk We hear the message about how to live a healthy life so much, it's hard to imagine there's anyone who hasn't heard it. Heart disease is preventable, said Dr. Patrice Desvigne Nickens, with the National He

VOA标准英语2013--Washington Week: Focus on Filibusters

Washington Week: Focus on Filibusters Until recent years, filibustering meant holding the Senate floor and speaking non-stop to prevent a vote, as portrayed by Jimmy Stewart in the 1939 movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Backers of racial segregatio

VOA标准英语2013--Photos Highlight Syrian Refugees in Jordan, Displaced Persons in S. Sudan

Photos Highlight Syrian Refugees in Jordan, Displaced Persons in S. Sudan Rich calls himself a photojournalist in the right place at the wrong time. He has photographed and filmed every major conflict during the past 40 years. Hes been wounded, kidna

VOA标准英语2013--OPEC Sees Oil Demand Decline Again

OPEC Sees Oil Demand Decline Again Demand for crude oil from OPEC countries is expected to decline again next year, as independent producers, especially the United States, increase their supplies. Times are gradually changing for OPEC, the Organizati