China participated for the first time in the World Earth Hour campaign Saturday night by switching off all unnecessary lighting in residential, business and public venues, including iconic Olympic landmarks such as the Bird's Nest Stadium and Water C...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. This Saturday night at eight thirty, all the lights will be shut off at the Tokyo Tower in Japan. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the Eiffel Tower in Paris are also expected to go dark. So is the...
As a band instructor at an elementary school, I require my students to turn in practice sheets signed by their parents so I can be sure they are putting in enough time. I had to laugh, however, when one parent wrote on her child's sheet, Practiced 17...
英文歌词: Mothers giving birth to a little son crying in the rain of falling bombs Father he is young but deep and wise You see the fighter inside his eyes Hold me cover my sight This is no paradise Don't show me the evil sides of the world How man...
By Vincent Makori Washington 14 March 2008 With the cost of owning a car in the U.S. soaring, many Americans are looking for others ways to get around. One car company is offering its customers an alternative to owning a car, a concept that is gainin...
By Sayed Hassan Islamabad 27 December 2007 Hours before her death, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who was visiting Islamabad. After the meeting, Bhutto told VOA reporter Sayed Hassan that she an...
By Carol Pearson Washington 05 September 2007 American doctors used to work as many as 120 hours a week during their hospital training, or residency. But now, new doctors are limited to a shorter, 80-hour workweek. The original schedule was designed...
By Amanda Cassandra New York 29 December 2006 New York's Number Seven subway train is nicknamed the International Express, because it weaves through Queens County, the nation's most ethnically diverse neighborhood, with people from 150 countries liv...
As a band instructor at an elementary school, I require my students to turn in practice sheets signed by their parents so I can be sure they are putting in enough time. I had to laugh, however, when o...
Broadcast: Jan 20 20031` The movie musical Chicago and the drama The Hours have taken top honors in Hollywood's Golden Globe awards. Martin Scorsese was named best director for Gangs of New York, whil...