It gives them an assurance, almost a de-facto certification that imported wood products are good."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

De'Asia Davis,23, graduated from Ohio State University last summer with a degree in sociology.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

But first,Mister Venter said, they had to de-activate a gene in the receiving cell that would have killed the synthetic genome.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

In cycling,American Lance Armstrong announced he will return to the Tour de France next year with a new American-based team.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

In Rio de Janeiro, a famous hip-hop artist called Marcelo D2 also lived in a favela.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

In the eighteen eighties, Ferdinand de Lesseps -- builder of the Suez Canal -- formed a French company to build a waterway across Panama.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

A French historian and political leader, Edouard-Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye, had the idea for the statue.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

The queen of France,Marie de Medici, hired him to create a series of twenty-four paintings.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Many years ago,a French naturalist, the Count de Buffon, wrote some books about natural history.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

Seventy-two hours later, Felix de Weldon had made a small statue of Joe Rosenthal's picture.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

The Venus de Milo was made about a hundred years after Winged Victory.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

It gives a good example of Niki de Saint Phalle's playful art.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

Felix de Weldon soon made a life-size copy of the statue.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

If you get a chance to see a red sunset over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico, you will know why that southwestern state is called The Land of Enchantment.

VOA: special.2009.08.16