AS IT IS 2015-02-02 US West Coast City Using New Tsunami Refuge 美国西海岸城市使用新的海啸避难所 There are coastal towns all around the world where tsunamis could and have caused loss of life and massive destruction. For people living...
AS IT IS 2015-02-02 Winter Weather Worsens Conditions for Syrian Refugees 冬天的天气让叙利亚难民雪上加霜 A strong winter storm struck the Middle East in the middle of January. The storm has been called one of the strongest to hit the a...
AS IT IS 2015-02-02 South Korea Wants Japan to Apologize to WWII Sex Slaves Every week, protesters gather in front of the Japanese embassy in the South Korean capital. They want Japan to apologize for forcing thousands of Korean women to have sex wit...
Why Do So Few US Women Hold Top Jobs? 为什么美国高层职位那么少女性? A new study confirms what most people already know: American women are still far behind American men in taking top leadership jobs in business and politics. The Pew Res...
NASA Spacecraft, Dawn, Close to Reaching a 'Dwarf Planet' 美国黎明号航天器,接近矮行星 An American spacecraft is moving closer to a dwarf planet called Ceres. The American space agencys Dawn spacecraft is set to reach the planet-like obje...
Mobile Computer Lab Helps Thousands in Nairobi Slum 移动计算机实验室帮助内罗毕贫民窟成千上百人 Kawangware is one of the fastest-growing slums in Nairobi, Kenya. It is also the poorest. Most of the 300,000 people who live there tr...
AS IT IS 2015-02-01 Former Secretaries of State Discuss National Security 美国前国务卿讨论国家安全 Three former secretaries of state spoke to members of the Senate Thursday. They discussed how the U.S. should deal with illegal immigration...
New Minister Cleans Up Cambodias Education System 新任部长整顿柬埔寨教育体制 Cambodias Grade 12 students took their final test in August 2014. Only 26% of them passed. The new Minister of Education had ordered extra security around the t...
Is There A Better Way to Track Passenger Planes? 有更好的追踪客机的方法吗? Airline industry leaders and regulators want to improve airplane safety. They want companies to develop better, more dependable devices that can follow planes as t...
Obama Attends India's Republic Day Parade 奥巴马参加印度共和国日大游行 Rain has done little to reduce the excitement around President Barack Obamas visit to India. The president watched a military parade involving thousands of Indian tr...
AS IT IS 2015-01-27 Hostage Crisis Could Divide Japan over Military Plan 人质危机可能使日本军事计划发生改变 The Islamic State militant group reportedly executed a hostage from Japan last week. The group is now threatening to kill a s...
AS IT IS 2015-01-27 Cars Making a Comeback at North American Auto Show 北美车展,多款汽车再度受欢迎 The 2015 North American International Auto Show took a test drive in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. It was the first major internatio...
New Camera Takes Billions of Pictures Every Second 能每秒拍摄数十亿张照片的相机_ Imagine a camera that can take one hundred billion pictures a second -- that is enough to record the fastest movements in the universe. But we do not have...
European, US Officials Warn of Terror Threat 欧洲和美国官员警示恐怖威胁 After the deadly attacks in France, European nations are working toward greater cooperation to fight terrorism across the continent and the world. Rob Wainwright is...
AS IT IS 2015-01-20 Sri Lankan Election Tests the Power of the Planets 斯里兰卡选举考验占星师水平 Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected president of Sri Lanka in 2005 and won re-election in 2010. In 2014, he called for elections again two years...