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VOA News Item1经济：印度及东南亚国家签署了自由贸易协定

Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations sealed the agreement in Bangkok Thursday.They met on the sidelines of the annual ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting.

The agreement creates one of Asia’s biggest trading areas and integrates India’s fast growing economy with10of its neighbors.

Trade between India and ASEAN amounts to$40billion each year.Under the pact,India and ASEAN will eliminate tariffs on various goods by2016.

VOA News Item2政治：英国政党领袖进行电视辩论第二轮角逐

Britain’s political life has been dominated for the past three decades by two parties—the Conservatives,now led by David Cameron,and Labor headed by current Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

But a third party,the Liberal Democrats,are turning this election into a three-horse race.

Their campaign was given a major boost by Britain’s first ever televised debate last week; Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg emerged as the clear winner.

Viewer polls taken after this second debate,which focused on foreign policy,showed there was no runaway victor.

The last time Britain had a hung parliament was in1974.A final televised debate is to take place next Thursday,followed by the election on May6.

VOA News Item3政治：参议院就索托马约尔就任最高法院大法官进行了讨论On the second day of debate all signs continued to point toward an easy confirmation win for Sotomayor,the55-year-old federal court judge nominated by President Barack Obama earlier this year.

Although most of the40Senate Republicans are likely to vote against her,the decision Wednesday of Missouri Senator Kit Bond added to the number of Republicans who have committed to voting for her.

Senator Bond,who is one of several Republicans retiring from the Senate next year,said while he respects and agrees with the legal reasoning others in his party used to oppose Sotomayor, lawmakers have an obligation to show deference to a president’s choice of a nominee.

VOA News Item4政治：南部非洲的部长们准备报告区域危机

Foreign ministers of the Southern African Development Community met in Maputo to prepare a report on the region’s political crises.It is to be presented to African leaders at their upcoming summit in Ethiopia.

SADC’s Political and Diplomatic Committee has been mediating three major crises in the region.

SADC officials said the ministers are pleased the various parties to the unity government in

Zimbabwe resumed negotiations on implementing their power-sharing agreement.They said they believed Zimbabwe was on the right path.

The officials said the ministers also believe that progress is being made toward easing the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and that reconciliation efforts between the government and various rebel groups were on the right track.

But the officials said they were less optimistic about the political crisis in Madagascar.It erupted in March after Andry Rajoelina,backed by the military,seized power following the ouster of then-President Marc Ravalomanana.

SADC and the African Union do not recognize the Rajoelina government and have suspended Madagascar from their organizations.

VOA News Item5政治：以色列国防部长遭到恐吓

Security has been tightened around Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak after he received dozens of death threats.Security sources say the threats were made by Jewish militants who oppose the government’s partial freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank.The freeze was imposed in November under pressure from the United States,which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.

The death threats are being taken seriously.In1995,Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by an Orthodox Jew opposed to his policy of trading land for peace with the Palestinians.

VOA News Item6政治：泰国军警围捕红衫军领袖行动失败

Government officials say they will investigate just how three leaders of the anti-government protests managed to escape when police tried to surround their hotel Friday.

One of the leaders climbed down three floors using a rope,and was rushed away by supporters thronging the building.

Officials earlier Friday said the government is preparing to arrest people linked to clashes with security forces last Saturday that left24soldiers and protesters dead.

The government says armed men infiltrated protester ranks and fired on troops trying to disperse a rally.

The anti-government movement,led by the United Democratic Front against Dictatorship or UDD,demands that the Government call fresh elections.UDD supporters have held protests in Bangkok for more than a month.

Thailand is facing its most severe political crisis in almost20years.Some parties in the governing coalition want to set a clear time frame for elections to ease tensions.But the government says it will only call elections once the political situation has cooled.

VOA News Item7政治：吉尔吉斯斯坦政变威胁美军基地未来

Kyrgyzstan’s five-day-old provisional government is vowing to use the country’s military to launch a special operation to neutralize President Kurmanbek Bakiyev if he does not resign.

Interim Kyrgyz leader Roza Otunbayeva says her government is willing to negotiate his departure from the country and wants to resolve the standoff without any more harm to innocent

civilians.

The president was effectively ousted after last Wednesday’s clashes between government forces and protesters.Authorities say about80people have died and more than1,600were wounded.

VOA News Item8政治：内塔尼亚胡称以色列只能依靠自己

On the eve of Israel’s62nd Independence Day,Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the nation must not rely on the help of foreigners.

Commentators say it is a clear reference to Israeli ties with the United States,which have plummeted over Jewish construction in disputed in East Jerusalem.The U.S.backs Palestinian demands that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a future Palestinian state.

But Israel sees all of Jerusalem as its eternal capital,and https://www.wendangku.net/doc/3c18869043.html,anyahu,who heads a right-wing government,has rejected U.S.demands to stop building there.As a result,the Palestinians have refused to return to U.S.-sponsored peace talks,and the diplomatic process has been deadlocked for15months.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak took a softer approach.Barak said Israel would not make any compromises when it comes to the security of the state.But he said it would show courage in the struggle for peace with the Palestinians based on the two-state solution.

VOA News Item9经济：非洲农民种植有机作物供应欧洲市场

Nearly5,000farmers in Burkina Faso,Cameroon,Ghana,Senegal,and Sierra Leone are exporting organically-grown produce to Europe,after gaining organic and fair-trade certification with help from the U.N.Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO).

The program focuses on all stages of production from planting and harvesting to packaging and promotion,increasing the profitability of farmers who previously struggled to afford costly chemical fertilizers.

30small-scale pineapple farmers in Ghana saw sales grow from26tons to more than115 tons after gaining their organic certification.

Pascal Liu is an economist with the FAO’s trade and markets division.Liu says the United Nations expects demand for organic foods will grow by between five and15percent during the next five years.And African farmers are well positioned to benefit from more people eating healthier food.

VOA News Item10经济：债务危机扩展到希腊以外

The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank were in Berlin Wednesday for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior officials.The aim:to get agreement on a bailout package for Greece.

Greece has been in negotiations with EU member countries and the IMF to secure a bailout —money that would allow it to pay debts coming due in time to avoid having to default.

In return Greece is under pressure to restructure its economy and implement austerity measures.

Disgruntled public-sector workers went on strike in Greece Wednesday to protest against the

cutbacks.A daylong general strike has been called for next week.

Opinion polls show the majority of Greeks are against an IMF-EU bailout,seeing it as foreign interference.

Worries about the Greek economy’s potential meltdown have sent jitters through world markets.And help is imperative because the Greek crisis could spread.

A joint EU-IMF package for Greece is put at$60billion,but some European officials said Wednesday the full cost could be much higher,reaching about$160billion over three years.

VOA News Item11经济：奥巴马致华尔街：别抵制金融改革

Aiming his appeal directly at the financial industry and skeptics within it,and at Republican critics in Congress,the president warned of the danger of a repeat of economic collapse.

Calling the financial crisis the outcome of a failure of responsibility from Wall Street to Washington,he said the time has come to seize the moment to make fundamental changes in the rules of the financial road.

With many,but not all,of the most prominent executives of Wall Street firms present,the president outlined key aspects of legislation the U.S.Senate will debate in coming days.

These include steps to impose new oversight and controls on hedge funds and complex financial instruments known as derivatives,and protections for consumers of financial products.

Of particular importance would be a system to ensure that troubled financial companies could be dismantled in an orderly way without posing the kind of systemic risk they did in2008.

Calling the Senate bill and one the House of Representatives approved last year a significant improvement over flawed rules now in place,he said changes would be advantageous for the industry and the country.

VOA News Item12经济：亚洲航空遭受冰岛火山喷发影响

The International Air Transport Association says global carriers are losing an estimated$200 million a day in revenue as a result of airline groundings related to the Iceland volcano.Albert Tjoeng,a Singapore-based spokesman for the association,says that is just part of the problem.

Travelers waiting around here are missing out on income because they cannot return to work.

The flight cancellations are expected to have additional repercussions for smaller Southeast Asia countries,where travel and tourism is a major share of the economy.

VOA News Item13经济：WFP对尼日尔粮食援助加倍

The World Food Program is now expecting to feed more than1.5million people in next month’s general food distribution,along with specialized therapeutic feeding for500,000children under the age of six.

That is because poor rains last year have brought forward the time when people no longer have enough to eat.

WFP is trying to raise$182million to scale up its operations in Niger.

The U.N.Food and Agriculture Organization is also stepping in to aid cattle herders in Niger and Chad.Livestock pastures are dry,so herders are selling their animals at lower prices to buy food for their families.

Eight FAO projects in Niger worth more than$12million are aimed at helping two million people.

VOA News Item14经济：立法者、反对者和媒体齐聚2010底特律车展

Cobo Center is home to the2010North American Auto Show in downtown Detroit.For the event,the Center has been transformed into an expanse of flashy displays and trendy marketing displays,featuring the latest in automotive engineering.

Known as the Detroit Auto Show,the annual event is one of the industry’s biggest.It helps generate publicity for some models,like the newly-redesigned Ford Focus,and it helps promote new technology,like the electric battery in the Chevrolet Volt.

But in the wake of one of the worst years for U.S.automobile sales,this year’s show has a different feel.

General Motors and Chrysler—two of the Detroit“Big Three”automakers,which also include Ford—went bankrupt last year and received billions of dollars in federal aid.Although some of that money has been paid back,the https://www.wendangku.net/doc/3c18869043.html,ernment is still a major shareholder in both companies.

VOA News Item15经济：世博会在上海开幕

China celebrated the opening of the2010World Expo in Shanghai with an evening of fireworks and fanfare.Dubbed the“Economic Olympics,”by Chinese officials,some190nations and50international organizations are participating in the multi-billion dollar event.

Similar to how2008Beijing Olympic Games put the Chinese capital in the international spotlight,Shanghai’s hosting of the World Expo has given the city of20some million people and China a chance to showcase its emergence as a global economic power.

The theme for the Shanghai World Expo is“Better City,Better Life”and features major exhibitions that look at modern and future urban life,and consider issues such as sustainable development and the interaction between cities and the environment.

The Shanghai2010World Expo runs until the end of October.

VOA News Item16经济：经济衰退已过，债务危机依旧

First the good news:after contracting slightly in2009,global economic output is expected to grow more than4percent this year,according to the International Monetary Fund.With a fledgling recovery gaining strength,it is easy to forget how close major industrialized nations came to economic collapse less than two years ago,an outcome that almost surely would have triggered a worldwide depression rivaling the Great Depression of the1930s.

In short,the pain,havoc,and economic devastation could have been far worse,according to the head of the U.S.Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas,Texas,Richard Fisher.Addressing central bankers from Europe and elsewhere,Fisher said central banks and national governments averted catastrophe through aggressive intervention.

VOA News Item17军事：以色列成功试射导弹防御系统

Rocket alarms have terrified Israeli border communities near the Gaza Strip for years.But

now Israel has a high-tech answer to the thousands of low-tech rockets that Palestinian militants have fired across the border since Israel pulled out of Gaza in2005.

Israel has successfully tested its Iron Dome defense system,which uses cameras and radar to track incoming rockets and can shoot them down within seconds of their launch.The system was developed by Rafael,the Israel Military Industries,at a cost of$200million.

VOA News Item18军事：美国正在尝试培训黑客来对抗罪犯和间谍

Computer security engineer Alan Paller recalls how the Soviet Union’s1957launch of Sputnik,the world’s first artificial satellite,spurred the https://www.wendangku.net/doc/3c18869043.html,ernment to accelerate its lagging space technology program.Now Paller,research director at an educational company called the SANS Institute,is leading the campaign to bring that kind of energy to defending cyberspace from assault by pranksters,thieves and spies.

VOA News Item19社会：挫败底特律机场袭击事件凸显以色列的安保成功It’s another day of stringent security checks at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport.About a million passengers pass through the airport each month,on average.But here,the lines move quickly thanks to what Israeli security experts say is an approach that—unlike other countries—relies more on eye contact with passengers and less on technology.

VOA News Item20社会：意大利三名医生在阿富汗被捕

The Italian aid group Emergency has had a tense relationship with local authorities in violence-wracked Helmand province,due in part to its policy of treating all patients.

Afghan officials said they detained three Italian Emergency workers Saturday,a doctor,a nurse and a logistics worker.Afghan officials said they were held as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to kill the governor of Helmand province.

Helmand Province Governor Gulab Mangal said an Emergency staff member received $500,000as an advance payment for killing him.In total nine people,including six Afghans,were held after explosive suicide vests,hand grenades and other weapons were discovered in the storeroom of the Emergency-run hospital in Helmand’s capital,Lashkar Gah.

Emergency founder Gino Strada denounced the detentions of the aid group’s three workers, calling it a mafia-style attempt to silence a witness.

VOA News Item21军事：利比里亚人反对临时解除武器禁运政策

The U.N.Security Council has lifted its arms embargo on Liberia for one year,primarily to allow its peacekeeping mission there to receive military equipment.But it also allows the government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to acquire arms and training to fight crime.

Government misuse of force under former President Charles Taylor brought about the arms embargo10years ago.Its lifting,even temporarily,has been met with both pride and worry among Liberians still recovering from a long civil war.

VOA News Item22社会：非洲国家加强机场安全防范

Reaction to the attempted bombing of a U.S.airliner on Christmas Day has been mixed

among the six African nations with direct air links to the United States.

Ghana has announced it will install full-body scanners at Accra’s international airport by next month.Nigeria has also announced it will install the scanners at Lagos international airport.

Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab departed from Accra and transited through Lagos and Amsterdam.He subsequently attempted to set off a bomb on a Northwest Airlines flight traveling to Detroit.

Abdulmutallab successfully passed through metal detectors and hand luggage searches at both airports,allegedly by concealing powdered explosives under his clothes.

The full-body scanners are more powerful than metal detectors that are standard at most airports.They can detect non-metallic materials hidden on the human body.

But some rights groups consider the scanners an invasion of privacy,because they show private physical characteristics in detail.

South Africa,whose airports handle the largest number of travelers flying directly between Africa and the United States,says it does not intend to install the scanners at this time.

VOA News Item23科技：美国将于周二发射发现号飞船

The Discovery crew is set to launch early Tuesday to deliver nearly8,000kilograms of equipment to the International Space Station.NASA engineers cleared the shuttle to fly on Sunday, after deciding there were no technical concerns to delay launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters said the skies should be clear for the evening launch, but storms could delay the delicate process of filling the shuttle’s external fuel tanks.

VOA News Item24科技：珊瑚礁在物种进化中的重要性

A new study out this week highlights the role that coral reefs play in evolution,adding another reason to preserve these delicate,diverse,and often beautiful ecosystems.

Many of the world’s coral reefs are threatened by ocean acidification and pollution,among other things.

Wolfgang Kiessling of Berlin’s Natural History Museum says that concerns ecologists because of the vital role reefs play in ocean ecosystems.

VOA News Item25科技：澳大利亚、新西兰科学家挑战日本捕鲸业

The researchers will set sail for Antarctica early next month,in an expedition funded by the Australian and New Zealand governments.

The scientists hope their journey to the Southern Ocean will help to disprove Japan’s claims that whales have to be killed to properly study them.

During their six-week voyage,researchers will employ a range of techniques to unlock some of the secrets of the giant marine mammals.

They will fire darts from small air rifles to collect blubber and skin for genetic testing,and to attach satellite-tracking tags to monitor the whales.Samples of dung will also be gathered, photographs taken,and acoustic instruments will record the animals’distinctive calls.

VOA News Item26医学：母亲越高，孩子越健康

Taller mothers are more likely to have children who are healthier—indeed,their children are more likely not just to thrive,but to survive—compared to children of shorter mothers. That’s the conclusion of a massive new study of millions of children in low-and middle-income countries.

“The key finding of this paper was to show a consistent association between maternal height and offspring health,which was mainly defined in terms of offspring mortality by age five and the risk of experiencing a failure in growth.”

The Harvard researcher says that while the association is clear,the“why”still needs more work.

VOA News Item27医疗：联合国帮助不发达国家对抗H1N1

The World Health Organization is warning countries to prepare for further spread of the H1N1influenza pandemic in coming months.

However,aid agencies say it will be more difficult to fight the disease in poorer countries, which have weak health systems,poor health status and limited resources.

They say countries overburdened by diseases,such as HIV/AIDS,tuberculosis and malaria, will have great difficulty dealing with the surge of pandemic flu cases.

World Health Organization spokesman,Paul Garwood,says this Call to Action aims to reduce the impact of H1N1by offering a range of measures applicable to all countries.

VOA News Item28医疗：美国民众对医保体系缺乏信心

Americans are just as divided on health care as they were before President Obama’s health care reform legislation became law.

Protesters in Washington carried signs on Thursday calling for the repeal of the legislation. They say it represents runaway spending.

A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that50percent of Americans oppose the new health care law and opposition is strongest among those64and older.Many older Americans worry that their care will be affected by cuts in federal payments to hospitals and other providers.

In another survey,this one by Ipsos/Reuters,only51percent of Americans thought they could get adequate,affordable health care.The survey included people in22nations.Women, adults under the age of55and less educated people in all the countries included in the study reported low satisfaction with health care access.

Yet another study showed that Americans without medical insurance,often delay going to a hospital after a heart attack.

VOA News Item29教育：印度学生重新考虑去澳大利亚接受高等教育

For nearly a decade,the popularity of Australian universities rose rapidly among Indian students,and the number of those heading to the country for higher education rose from about 10,000in2001to more than70,000last year.

But that could change this year due to a string of negative publicity generated by attacks on Indian students in Australia.

A travel advisory by the Indian government earlier this week warned that Indian students in Australia face an increased risk of assault.It was issued after an Indian graduate was stabbed to death in Melbourne.His stabbing came on the heels of a spate of attacks on Indian students in Australia in recent months,which the Indian media have dubbed as racist.

It is a charge that Australian officials have strongly denied.They say the attacks are purely criminal,and the country is safe for foreign students.

Nevertheless,as concerns rose in India,foreign minister S.M.Krishna called on Indians to assess their options while exploring the possibility of studying in Australia.

VOA News Item30社会：法国调查电信员工自杀事件

For some,the wave of suicides at France Telecom reveals the downsides of the scramble to stay competitive amid the pressures of globalization and the recent economic downturn.More than 40France Telecom employees have taken their lives since2008.Unions say that includes a dozen suicides this year alone.

The probe by the Paris prosecutor’s office follows a court complaint filed by the union Solidaires Unitaires Democratic(SUD).Union lawyer Jean-Paul Tessionniere blamed working conditions at the company for the suicides.

A February report by the French labor inspector’s office linked14France Telecom suicides directly to the company’s management practices.

France Telecom denies its management practices have led to the suicides.France Telecom lawyer Claudia Chemarin told French television that each suicide will be examined individually. She said that under no condition can it be claimed that there was an organized policy that led to them.

In March,France Telecom’s new boss Stephane Richard outlined ways the company planned to improve employee working conditions.

France Telecom is not the only French company grappling with employee suicides.But because of the numbers of employee deaths and the media attention they have attracted,critics say France Telecom’s problems have emerged as a warning story about the downsides of valuing productivity and growth over employee well being.

VOA News Item31社会：移民者抗议冻结约旦河西岸建设

Jewish settlement councils have declared a general strike to protest the Israeli government’s freeze on construction in West Bank communities.Settlement leaders demonstrated outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem as the Cabinet held its weekly meeting.They carried signs saying,you can freeze in the North Pole,but not in Israel.

The settlers helped elect right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,but now they accuse him of abandoning his nationalist ideals.

VOA News Item32社会：密西西比的小城吸引大量游客

The King of Rock‘n’Roll,Elvis Presley,was born75years ago last week in a two-room house in the town of Tupelo in the piney woods of the deep southern state of Mississippi.So this time of year,and again in August on the anniversary of the King’s death,pilgrimages of Elvis fans

descend upon that furniture manufacturing center of34,000people.

Surprisingly,you don’t see a lot of Elvis markers there.There is one sign that says The King is Up Ahead,but that’s for an automobile dealership.Visitors can take a self-guided Elvis Presley driving tour.One stop is the Tupelo Hardware where Elvis got his first guitar.The folks there say Elvis had wanted a rifle.But his mother,Gladys would have none of it.She stood him on a keg and let him play around with a guitar.He loved it,and Mrs.Presley bought it for him for$7.95.

VOA News Item33文化：很多人认为依地语正在消失

A funny thing is happening in the world of language instruction.Only it’s not funny at all for one language in particular.

Because of the growing importance of global commerce and contact,foreign language instruction is booming at U.S.colleges.But because of the tight economy,many colleges are eliminating fulltime language-teaching positions or filling them with cheaper lecturers who are not faculty members at all.

This is the case at the University of Maryland’s flagship College Park campus,a prestigious state-run school in the eastern U.S..To save costs,the university plans to cut its one Yiddish-teaching position.It’s the latest blow in what has been a steady decline in the study and use of Yiddish,which began among European Jews in the Middle Ages as a conversational Germanic language that uses Hebrew characters.

Today,Yiddish is struggling to survive.It’s thought that fewer than500,000people,mostly the elderly,speak it worldwide.Most young,acculturated Jews speak only their countries’principal language,plus Hebrew during worship.

VOA News Item34自然：湄公河水坝威胁水生生命

The Mekong River is the lifeblood of Southeast Asia,with the largest inland fisheries in the world.About40million people depend to some degree on the fisheries,worth about$2.5billion a year.

But fisheries experts say plans by Cambodia,Laos and Thailand to build hydropower dams on the Mekong would block fish migration,threatening already endangered species. Environmental activists say plans by Laos to build a dam in the Don Sahong area near the Cambodian border could doom the nearly extinct Irrawaddy dolphin.

VOA News Item35灾难：联合国加紧救援海地灾区

Haiti is prone to disasters,but this huge quake is the worst to hit the Caribbean island state in two centuries.The7.0magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday destroyed much of the country’s capital,Port-au-Prince.

The International Red Cross fears up to three million people may have been affected by the earthquake,which not only devastated the capital city,but many smaller nearby communities.

The United Nations reports electricity has been cut off and communications are difficult.It says bridges have been knocked out,hospitals and care facilities have been damaged or destroyed. Haiti’s envoy to the United States estimates losses could run into the billions.

VOA News Item36人物：迈克?济托在《珠江》融入了摇滚、蓝调和灵魂For Mike Zito,singing“Dirty Blonde”from Pearl River,the phrase“up-and-comer”is a thing of the past.As one reviewer writes,“With his husky vocals and hard rocking guitar,Mike is well on his way to the big time.”

Born and raised in St.Louis,Missouri,Zito gravitated to the guitar after hearing an album by’80s rockers Van Halen.Guitar greats Jimi Hendrix,Eric Clapton and B.B.King also made an impression,as well as Prince and Buddy Guy.

Mike crafted his skills while working in a local guitar shop frequented by legendary rocker Chuck Berry.Looking back,Mike says,“I soaked up the sounds of that store,and began building my own style.”

After a succession of independent releases in the1990s,Mike picked up a steady stream of followers on extensive tours across the country.When he wasn’t touring,he spent his time off playing nightly gigs in his hometown.

Weary from touring,and close to giving up altogether on a career in music,Mike remained confident that he was close to gaining a major label contract.He says,“Music can change everything;how you feel;how you see and what you believe.”Sure enough,he was offered a national distribution deal with Delta Groove Music.

VOA News Item37政治：以色列预期下周与巴勒斯坦和谈

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel hopes to begin peace negotiations with the Palestinians next week,during a visit by U.S.envoy George https://www.wendangku.net/doc/3c18869043.html,anyahu spoke to his Cabinet a day after the Arab League endorsed indirect peace talks for a period of four months.The prime minister said direct talks are necessary to reach a peace agreement,but indirect talks are an acceptable way to restart the diplomatic process.Peace talks broke down more than a year ago, and the Palestinians have refused to return to the negotiating table until Israel freezes all settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.The Palestinians rejected Israel’s offer of a partial freeze.But now,the American proposal of indirect talks mediated by the United States has provided a way out of the impasse.Palestinian officials say the first order of business during the four-month talks is charting the borders of a future Palestinian state.An agreement on borders could lead to direct talks on the thorniest issues of the conflict,including the status of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees.

VOA News Item38政治：美国可能改变审判9-11疑犯地点

Last November,U.S.Attorney General Eric Holder announced that five alleged conspirators of the9-11attacks including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would go on trial in a federal court in New York City in connection with the2001terrorist attacks on New York,Washington and Pennsylvania.But that decision may be about to be reversed,according to senior Obama administration officials cited in the Washington Post and by other sources.A decision to reverse course could come as early as next week and would be the latest twist in a political firestorm that erupted over the issue of civilian trials since it was announced by Attorney General Holder last year.

The question of whether to try the alleged9-11conspirators in a civilian court or through a

military justice track sparked an intense debate in Congress and on the nation’s airwaves.Former Vice President Dick Cheney spoke recently on ABC’s“This Week”program.“I think trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York is a big mistake,It gives him a huge platform to promulgate his particular brand of propaganda around the world.I think he ought he ought to be at Guantanamo.I think he ought to be tried at Guantanamo in front of a military commission.”

VOA News Item39社会：美国医改应更加关注少数民族

While the health care reform debate in the United States has been dominated on lowering the cost of health insurance,other health care activists and experts are working behind the scenes to lower barriers to quality health care for African-Americans and Hispanics.One well-respected figure says the key is bringing more minorities into the profession.Numerous studies indicate African-Americans and Hispanics receive a poorer quality of health care than non-Hispanic whites, even when they have the same levels of income and health insurance coverage.Researchers say the reasons for this disparity include stereotyping of patients by health care providers,and a severe shortage of minority health care professionals.Dr.Louis Sullivan says minority health care professionals fill a key role in serving ethnic communities.“There are studies that have shown that African American physicians or Hispanic American physicians are three to five times more likely to establish their practices in African American or Hispanic American communities.”Sullivan, who once served as secretary of the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services,says minority physicians see a higher percentage of patients with either no insurance,or covered by Medicaid,the government insurance program for low-income Americans.

VOA News Item40政治：尼日利亚代理总统撤换国家安全官员

Acting President Goodluck Jonathan fired National Security Advisor Sarki Mukhtar and replaced him with retired Lieutenant General Aliyu Gusau.Gusau held that post under former president Olusegun Obasanjo and is seen by many as a potential presidential candidate in next year’s election,having finished second to President Umaru Yar’Adua in the last ruling-party primary.Mr.Jonathan’s move to sack a national security advisor chosen by President Yar’Adua is the latest move by the acting president to solidify his position at a time when President Yar’Adua is still recovering from a heart condition and the nation is facing renewed civil unrest.Nigerian troops are patrolling villages near the city of Jos after Plateau state officials say the death toll from Sunday’s ethnic and religious violence could be as high as500.Residents in the village of Dogo Nahawa say Fulani herdsmen raided their village before dawn,shooting in the air to draw people out of their homes before attacking them with machetes and knives.Many of those killed were women and children who could not outrun their attackers.

VOA News Item41外交：美国重申支持以色列

Vice President Joe Biden told an audience at Tel Aviv University the United States remains deeply committed to Israel’s security,saying the United States has no better friend than the Jewish state.He said it is now in the best interest of Israelis to make a serious attempt to make peace with the Palestinians.“It is really hard to be a beacon for others,when you are constantly at war.To end this historic conflict,both sides must be historically bold,because if each waits stubbornly for the

other to act first,this will go on and be waiting for an eternity.”Despite U.S.demands for Israel to stop or restrain construction of Jewish housing in disputed East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank,during the Biden visit Israeli officials announced their approval of construction of1,600 new Jewish housing units in East Jerusalem.Israel said it did not intend to embarrass Biden,the highest-ranking Obama administration official to visit the region.

VOA News Item42政治：印度俄罗斯签署数十亿美元能源及国防协议

Indian and Russian officials say the two prime ministers held wide-ranging discussions. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says his talks with Mr.Putin went beyond the22 agreements they signed.“There is much that India and Russia can do together to advance global peace and stability and the process of global economic revival.We’ve agreed to intensify our consultations on Afghanistan and the challenges posed by terrorism and extremism in our region.”But most of the attention focused on the billions of dollars worth of deals they signed.To help India meet a shortage of electricity for its booming economy,Russia is to build between12and16 nuclear power plants here,six of them by2017.Russia is already constructing two units in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.Earlier in the day,during a video conference with Indian business leaders gathered in several cities,Mr.Putin said Russia would also supply India with fuel for the reactors and cooperate on disposal of nuclear waste from the new plants.He called Russia’s nuclear technology among the safest in the world.

VOA News Item43政治：内贾德批评美国在阿富汗的作用

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized Washington with his own words,as he appeared at a news conference alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul.Earlier this week,visiting U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates accused Tehran of playing a“double game”in Afghanistan—being friendly to the Afghan government,while at the same time trying to undermine Afghan and international forces.Iran denies the allegations,and Mr.Ahmadinejad struck back.He says that in his view,U.S.officials are the ones playing a double game.He said they created terrorism in Afghanistan and then declared a need to fight it.The United States supported Afghan rebels more than two decades ago when the Soviet Union fought in Afghanistan. But the support vanished after the Soviets pulled out,and eventually,analysts say instability in Afghanistan created a safe haven for al-Qaida.While touring an Afghan army training center outside Kabul,U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed his concern about the Iranian leader’s visit.“As I told President Karzai,we think Afghanistan should have good relations with all of its neighbors,but we also want all of Afghanistan’s neighbors to play an upfront game in dealing with the government of Afghanistan.”

VOA News Item44外交：奥巴马与印尼的私交改善两国关系

At the Besuki Public School in Jakarta,eight year old student Chavielda Najma and classmates are rehearsing a dance number they hope to perform for the school’s most famous alumni.She says she likes President Obama very much because he was very good in social sciences.She,like many Indonesians,feels a personal connection with the U.S.president because he spent part of his childhood years living in Jakarta and attending this school.There is even a

statue of him at the entrance to the school.The statue was originally erected at a nearby park but was moved when some people complained that an Indonesian hero should be honored there instead.Still,political analyst Wimar Witoelar says President Obama is quite popular in Indonesia because most people believe the president understands Indonesian culture and values.

VOA News Item45外交：美国推迟访问，等待以色列承诺

Clinton is discounting reports of a major crisis in U.S.-Israel relations,but she is making clear that she wants to see substantial gestures by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to repair damage from last week’s housing announcement.The Israeli government angered and embarrassed the Obama administration a week ago when it announced, as Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Israel,that it will build1,600new Jewish housing units in mainly-Arab East Jerusalem.The United States is seeking assurances from https://www.wendangku.net/doc/3c18869043.html,anyahu that such an incident will not be repeated,as well as pledges that it is prepared to discuss all of the core issues of the Middle East peace process—including Jerusalem—in talks with the Palestinians.At a press event with Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin,Clinton said the U.S. administration is in very active consultations with Israel over steps by the Jewish state that in her words“would demonstrate the requisite commitment”to the peace process.

VOA News Item46社会：爱尔兰主教为虐童丑闻道歉

Cardinal Sean Brady chose to issue a very public apology in his St.Patrick’s Day sermon in the cathedral in Armagh,in Northern Ireland.Speaking to journalists afterwards,he explained.“I apologized to those who have suffered as a result of abuse in the past and particularly,I apologized to those who due to my failures in the past have suffered.”Cardinal Brady’s apology centers on the case of pedophile priest,Father Brendan Smyth,who was arrested,tried and convicted in1994of abusing and raping young boys and girls in Ireland as well as in the United States.Smyth died in a military prison in Ireland in1997.It’s been revealed that Sean Brady,then a junior church official,knew of Smyth’s abuse in1975.He was involved in an investigation into abuse allegations and met with two of Smyth’s young victims.Brady did not tell the police and the two young boys were instead told to sign a secrecy oath.At the Vatican,Pope Benedict XVI said he was deeply concerned about the crisis.Speaking before a weekly general audience,the pope said he would send a pastoral letter to Ireland’s Roman Catholics about the scandal.

VOA News Item47外交：澳大利亚准备迎接奥巴马访问

The last time an American president visited Australia,large numbers of protesters angry at the war in Iraq rallied in Sydney when President George W.Bush attended an Asia-Pacific economic conference.Demonstrators are again planning to march in several Australian cities during President Barack Obama’s visit next week,although the protests are expected to be far smaller.Foreign policy analysts say Mr.Obama’s trip is mainly about maintaining the alliance—or dropping in on friends.He is to address Australia’s federal Parliament in Canberra,only the sixth world leader to do so.Washington and Canberra signed a formal security pact in the early 1950s,in which the Americans agreed to defend Australia in the event of an attack.Brendon O’Connor,an associate professor at the U.S.Studies Center at the University of Sydney,thinks

many Australians trust that President Obama will make the relationship even stronger.

VOA News Item48医疗：塞拉利昂为孕妇和儿童提供免费医疗

In one month’s time,the country will launch an ambitious plan to provide free health care to lactating and pregnant women and children under five,in an attempt to reduce maternal and child mortality in the country.Sierra Leone has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Lack of essential drugs to keep pregnant women and young children healthy is a major hurdle to providing comprehensive care.Lianne Kuppens leads UNICEF’s child survival and development team in Sierra Leone.She says the drugs are essential,if some of the people in the country are to achieve real free health care.“The drugs,indeed worth around$7million,are covering…are in line with the national essential drugs.It is a list which has been combined,which has been made with all the stakeholders in support of the government.And,it is covering diseases like diarrhea, like malaria,like pneumonia,all the basic diseases that people face and then,of course,we try to address the most vulnerable among all of them.”The drugs will also address conditions such as diabetes and hypertension that put pregnant women at risk for complications during pregnancy.

VOA News Item49经济：美联储主席要求中央银行拥有更多监管权

The Federal Reserve came under fire again as some lawmakers renewed calls to reduce the Central Bank’s authority.Republican Congressman Spencer Bacchus cited experts who claim the Federal Reserve already has too many responsibilities.”Said that collecting diverse responsibilities in one institution is like asking the plumber to check the wiring in your basement. It seems that when the Fed is responsible for monetary policy and bank supervision,its performance in both suffers.”But Fed chairman Ben Bernanke countered,saying the central bank’s expertise in setting monetary policy makes it uniquely qualified to identify risks to the financial system.“Moreover,the insights provided by our role in supervising a range of banks, including community banks significantly increases our effectiveness in making monetary policy and fostering financial stability.”Bernanke’s testimony comes as lawmakers attempt a major overhaul of financial regulations.

VOA News Item50社会：安全专家称印尼恐怖主义威胁增加

Since a deadly bombing attack on hotels in Jakarta last year,Indonesian security forces have tracked down the militants responsible and prevented other attacks.They have also killed Noordin Top,the leader of the group that carried out the attack on the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels. And they hunted down and killed a man known as Dulmantin,who had long been on Indonesia’s most-wanted list,suspected of being involved in a2002attack on the island of Bali.While the security forces have been praised for these actions,Andi Widjajanto,a military analyst from the University of Indonesia,is concerned that the increased police activity also indicates an increased level of militant activity.“I think after the Marriott and(Ritz)Carlton2009,after the raid of Aceh and Pamulang,there is a strong indication that the network is getting stronger and stronger,it is not getting weaker.”

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常用BBC,VOA英语新闻词汇1)名词+现在分词。如： cancer-causing drug 制癌药物 oil-producing country 产油国 peace-keeping force 维和部队 policy-making body 决策机构 2)形容词+现在分词。如： far-reaching significance 深远意义 high-ranking official 高级官员 long-standing issue 由来己久的问题 wide-spreading AIDS 到处蔓延的艾滋病 3)名词+过去分词。如： blood-cemented friendship 鲜血凝成的友谊 export-oriented economy 外向型经济 poverty-stricken area 贫困地区 wasp-waisted road 蜂腰路段 4)形容词+过去分词。如： deep-rooted social problems 根深蒂固的社会问题foreign-owned enterprise 外资企业 long-faced job loser 愁眉苦脸的失业者 quick-frozen food 速冻食品 5)副词+过去分词。如： dimly-lit room 光线昏暗的房间 highly-sophisticated technology 尖端技术 richly-paid job 薪水丰厚的工作 well-informed source 消息灵通人士 6)名词+形容词。如： inflation-proof deposit 保值储昔 interest-free loan 无息贷款 labour-intensive enterprise 劳动力密集型企业 vehicle-free promenade 步行街 7)名词+名词.如： arms-reduction talks 裁军谈判 labour-management conflict 劳资冲突 supply-demand imbalance 供求失调 year-endreport 年终报告 8)形容词+名词。如：

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https://www.wendangku.net/doc/3c18869043.html, 1 November 1, 2011 110111.01 At 75, Seminal US Composer Still Inspires Gail Wein | New York In the early 1960s, when Reich was at the beginning of his career , the contemporary classical music scene was dominated by atonal music. "It fell to my generation to basically say, 'Basta. Enough.' to music which you could not tap your foot to," Reich says, "to music to which you could not possibly walk out humming anything, and music which had no harmonic center ." Reich was studying composition at Mills College in California, a hotbed of avant-garde creativity. Experimenting with lengths of audio tape, he spliced them together to form a loop and put them on a tape player so they would continuously run over and over again. Reich went to San Francisco's Union Square and recorded a charismatic street preacher , whose sermon hovered between speech and song. "As he said, 'It's gonna rain,' a pigeon took off," Reich says. "So you had a pigeon drummer and this incredible voice and sort of low traffic in the background. Well, I thought, 'Oh, wouldn't it be great if it were two loops, and they were going, ‘it's gonna, it's gonna, it's gonna rain rain rain rain,' and the pigeon would just be drumming away." According to Tim Page, professor of journalism and music at the US composer Steve Reich, who turns 75 this year, continues to inspire a new generation of musicians.

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