Scientific American magazine says huge lasers turn only about twenty to thirty percent of the energy they use into a laser beam.

VOA: special.2010.09.01

He could turn off a light and then jump into his bed before the room got dark.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

He says twenty volunteers worked for six weekends to turn the grassy land into a farm.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Two Emerging Explorers are working to turn waste into a valuable resource.

VOA: special.2011.05.25

She helped create a non-profit organization that helps turn waste into fertilizer.

VOA: special.2011.05.25

"It is a place where kids can build their own social community online and they can really engage in some fun and cool scientific discovery and really allow them to turn their home into a lab if they choose to do so."

VOA: special.2010.12.28

It was a new world,okay? Instead of being the humdrum statistical world, everything seemed to turn into butterflies and perfume.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

You know,I thought there was a possibly an opportunity there to try and turn a pest into something that might be profitable."

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

(SPEAKING) National Union of Cotton Producers Coordinator Leonce Sanon says Burkina Faso has a very weak capacity to turn cotton into fabric.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Stimson says he worries that a civilian trial could become a circus if Mohammed tries to turn it into a propaganda event for al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

The government forecasts a 61 percent jump in gross ticket sales this year, which could turn the nation's new silver screens into boxoffice gold.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

We prayed for Godto turn me into a bird so I could fly far away.

VOA: standard.other

Now a landmark lawsuit brought by the Senegalese Office for Artists' Royalties against two major Dakar media outlets could turn music-making into a profitable business.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Mr.Putin responded,and asked Shevchuk not to turn the meeting into a bazaar.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10