"It's a curriculum that helped Singapore math students skyrocket to number one by the 1990s and that's where they've stayed ever since."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

It's a way of showing in one number that, for example,a diabetic or an obese person died sooner but also had years of poor health.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

It is also one of a number of cities in the north that erupted into protest after troops stormed the Red Shirt's Bangkok camp last week, part of a military crackdown that caused at least 50 deaths.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

The United States national soccer team accomplished what few believed they could Wednesday night in Bloemfontein, dominating the world's number one ranked team and leaving the stadium with a merited 2-0 victory and a ticket to the final of the Confederations Cup on Sunday night in Johannesburg.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

"What we try to do is - for each hospital that we work with - become the number one or number two provider of U.S.patients, so that we really can build a very good relationship with those hospitals and make sure that patient benefits from that."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

"We've heard the words he spoke on behalf of the world's number one democracy, he said - we've been waiting for these words for a long and he should know that the has friends and that Europe will from now on be an even stronger pillar that he can count on,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.04