VOA常速英语2014--猪膀胱助病人的干细胞生长出新肌肉

Pigs Bladder Helps Patients' Stem Cells Grow Missing Muscles 猪膀胱助病人的干细胞生长出新肌肉 The promise that stem cells may someday help regenerate damaged tissue seems to be close to fulfillment. Scientists at the University of Pit

VOA标准英语2014--支持者说纽约面临饥饿危机

Advocates Say New York City Facing Hunger Crisis 支持者说纽约面临饥饿危机 NEW YORK In the Harlem section of New York City, people come early and line up each day for food to feed their families at a pantry run by the Food Bank for New Yor

VOA标准英语2014--News / Africa US-Africa Summit Under Way in Washington

News / Africa US-Africa Summit Under Way in Washington WHITE HOUSE U.S. President Barack Obama this week hosts the largest-ever summit of African leaders in Washington to talk about boosting U.S. engagement with the continent. The U.S. leader hopes t

VOA标准英语2014--Displaced Gazans Fear Returning Home Despite Israeli Assurances

Displaced Gazans Fear Returning Home Despite Israeli Assurances BEIT LAHIYA, GAZA The Israeli military has told residents of several neighborhoods in Gaza that they may return home, seeming to indicate that the operation to destroy infiltration tunne

VOA常速英语2014--奥巴马考量解决边境危机之道

Obama Ponders Action on Border Crisis Without Congress 奥巴马考量解决边境危机之道 WASHINGTON The U.S. Congress has begun a five-week recess without addressing the arrival of tens of thousands of undocumented Central American youths along

VOA标准英语2014--调查人员终于赶到MH17失事地点

Investigators Finally Reach MH17 Crash Site 调查人员终于赶到MH17失事地点 LONDON A team around 100 international investigators and police was able to visit Friday the crash site of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 in eastern Ukraine. The inspe

VOA标准英语2014--加沙的“和平”太短暂了

'Peace' in Gaza is All Too Brief 加沙的和平太短暂了 GAZA CITY Cease-fires in embattled Gaza have been all too brief in recent days, shattered by a swift return to fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas militant fighters. Civilians a

VOA标准英语2014--联合国空运紧急救援物资到利比里亚

UNICEF Airlifts Supplies to Liberia 联合国空运紧急救援物资到利比里亚 The U.N. childrens fund UNICEF has begun airlifting emergency supplies to Liberia, the country hardest hit by the West Africa Ebola epidemic. A cargo plane carrying

VOA常速英语2014--美国7月增加20.9万工作机会 但失业率回弹到6.2%

US Adds 209K Jobs in July, Unemployment Rises to 6.2% 美国7月增加20.9万工作机会 但失业率回弹到6.2% WASHINGTON The latest employment report www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm shows the U.S. economy growing at a steady pace, addin

VOA标准英语2014--巴拿马运河在日益激烈的竞争中迎来100岁生日

Panama Canal Turns 100 Amid Growing Pains, Competition The Panama Canal turns 100 this week. Officially opened in 1914, the 77-kilometer channel joins the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean at the isthmus of Panama. It made the world smaller, creating a shor

VOA标准英语2014--For Nairobi's Disabled, an Equal Chance Behind the Wheel

For Nairobi's Disabled, an Equal Chance Behind the Wheel NAIROBI Each day, 45-year-old George Papai makes an arduous journey to and from work and his commute is unusually long. Today is no different. Whereas an able-bodied person would make the same

VOA常速英语2014--加沙冲突为以色列边境社区带来新危机

Gaza Conflict Brings New Worries to Israeli Border Communities 加沙冲突为以色列边境社区带来新危机 KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, SOUTHERN ISRAEL A temporary three-day cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian fighters in Gaza has brought a few da

VOA标准英语2014--“乐团小丑”来到纽约

'Clowns of Orchestra' Descend on New York 乐团小丑来到纽约 NEW YORK Bassoons have been called the clown of the orchestra, an ill wind, and even a burping bedpost. It seems the one-and-a-quarter meter tall wooden tubes get no respect. Except,

VOA标准英语2014--奥巴马将采取措施解决非法移民问题

Obama Expected to Take Executive Action on Undocumented Immigrants 奥巴马将采取措施解决非法移民问题 WASHINGTON In coming weeks, President Barack Obama is expected to take executive action to address the plight of millions of undocumen

VOA标准英语2014--美国自然保护计划教导青少年自然知识

US Conservation Program Teaches Teens about Nature 美国自然保护计划教导青少年自然知识 MURRIETA, CALIFORNIA Teenagers have been removing invasive plants and protecting endangered species around the United States this summer, in a prog

VOA标准英语2014--野生动物基金会称每年成千上万的大象死亡

Wildlife Foundation: Tens of Thousands of Elephants Killed Every Year 野生动物基金会称每年成千上万的大象死亡 August 12 is World Elephant Day. Its estimated there are 500,000 elephants remaining in Africa. Thats down from 1.2-millio

VOA常速英语2014--加速研发治疗埃博拉病毒药物应对疫情

Work on Ebola Treatments Speeds Up to Address Outbreak 加速研发治疗埃博拉病毒药物应对疫情 The World Health Organization has approved the use of experimental drugs for people who have Ebola, a virus that already has claimed more than

VOA标准英语2014--US Monitors S. China Sea after Beijing Knocks Down Proposal

US Monitors S. China Sea after Beijing Knocks Down Proposal STATE DEPARTMENT The United States says it will monitor contested waters of the South China Sea to see if there is any de-escalation of tensions - after China knocked down a U.S. proposal at

VOA标准英语2014--科学家从南极苍蝇测定最小基因序列

Scientists Sequence Smallest Genome Ever With Antarctic Fly 科学家从南极苍蝇测定最小基因序列 Scientists have just sequenced the genome of a fly native to Antarctica, the coldest, driest and windiest place on the planet, a finding that

VOA常速英语2014--加沙村庄受到火箭影响 对未来生活充满担心

Israelis Near Gaza Wary of Rockets, Future 加沙村庄受到火箭影响 对未来生活充满担心 KIBBUTZ KFAR AZA, ISRAEL Israelis in communities lying close to the boundary with Gaza are trying to recover from the month-long conflict in which m