Smuggling Tunnels Become Lifelines for Impoverished Gaza One of Gaza's major economic lifelines is a smuggling tunnel, 20 meters underground, stretching some 200 meters from Gaza into Egypt. It is used primarily to smuggle cement and gravel and some...
Suppose someone gave you a pen a sealed, solid-colored pen.You couldnt seehow much ink it had. 假设有人给了你一枝笔,一枝密封的、纯色的水笔,里面有多少墨水你看不到。 It might run dry after the first few tentative wo...
Women on Carrier's Crew Find Navy Life Rewarding Lieutenant Megan Donnelly is one of the 770 women on board the Abraham Lincoln. She is one of the officers who drove the 97,500 ton carrier, as the crew puts it, out of the Persian Gulf through the Str...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Life in the 1970s and '80s STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week in our series, we look back at some of the social issues and c...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Life in the 1970s and '80s STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week in our series, we look back at some of the social issues and c...
'A Separation' Explores Life in Modern Tehran The film opens in divorce court with Nader, a bank employee, and his estranged wife Simin, a doctor, appearing before a judge. Simin is filing for divorce because she wants to leave the country. Simin fee...
Real-life Vigilantes Come to the Rescue Youve probably heard of superheroes - crime fighters possessed of incredible powers, their identities masked behind colorful costumes. Justice-seekers such as Superman, Batman and the Green Hornet. Theyre make-...
Education Report - Rural Medical School Competes With City Life 教育报道 - 美国农村地区医生缺乏,医学院校出招应对 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。 Many rural are...
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Tuesday that babies born in the city in 2009 have the record high life expectancy of 80.6 years, an increase of nearly three years since 2000. The rate of 80.6 years is...
That day he decreased the distance between him and the ship by three miles; the next day by two-for he was crawling now as Bill had crawled; and the end of the day found the ship still seven mailes away and him unable to make even a mile a day. Sti...