Media Experts Ponder Future of Newspapers After Washington Post Sale 媒体专家思考华盛顿邮报被卖后的未来 WASHINGTON Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos made news this week following reports that the Internet pioneer had purchased one of the...
Fungicide for Plants May Hurt Honeybees除草剂可能对蜜蜂造成伤害 根据一项最新调查结果,一种广泛用于抵抗植物疾病的化学剂会对蜜蜂造成伤害,这项结果令人吃惊。美国之声记者梅根麦格拉思带来...
Futuristic Movie 'Elysium' Underscores Today's Ills 未来主义电影针砭时弊 South African filmmaker Neil Blomkamp returns with a new sci-fi film, Elysium. Like his previous futuristic drama District 9, Elysium tackles social separation in a dy...
South Africa Marks National Womens Day 南非妇女节的来历 Friday, August 9th, is National Womens Day in South Africa. It commemorates the 1956 march by 20-thousand women against the countrys apartheid era pass laws. The laws severely restricted...
Egypt Upheaval Poses Dilemma for Washington 美国对埃及援助陷两难 CAIRO America's relations with Egypt have been defined in large part by the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty and the financial rewards to Egypt for maintaining it. But current up...
New York Probation Center's New Tack on Rehabilitation 纽约感化中心的新康复办法 NEW YORK Probation offices, where convicts must report regularly as an alternative to prison time, tend to be grim places. But New York City is experimenting...
Analysts: Arab Uprisings Could Redraw Middle East Map 分析者: 阿拉伯的崛起可能重绘中东的版图 LONDON With civil war raging in Syria and the conflict threatening to draw in neighboring states, there is speculation about possible geopo...
Goats Get a Capitol Hill Job 山羊获得国会山工作 While members of the U.S. Congress are on vacation this month, work continues around the U.S. Capitol. Not by Congressional aides, though. A herd of goats was set loose in the Historic Congress...
Kerry, Hagel to Meet with Russian Counterparts 克里、黑格将访问俄罗斯 STATE DEPARTMENT U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel are meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Defense Ministe...