He says the extent and quality of long-term literacy is important to individual economic success and quality of life in a community and a nation.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

City College of New York professor Erica Lubetkin is one of the authors of a new study that looked at the loss of quality life years due to obesity and how that changed between 1993 and 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10