A new report says adult obesity rates rose last year in twenty-three of the fifty states.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

I walked out and took a trolley to my apartment and Carlo Marx's papier-mache mountains grew red as the great sun rose from the eastward plains.

我走出去推了一辆推车到我的公寓,卡洛马克思的纸型山随着,东边太阳升起变成了红色。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

People use a metal call box with a push-to-talk button to connect to a live operator, as Rose Shuman explains: "You just push a button, a big green button, and that will connect you directly to our operators who are sitting in front of computers, and speak your language.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Much has changed since that time. Sobriety,his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman and the birth of their eight-month-old daughter,Sunday Rose, gave him a new perspective on life.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19