He said Mexico should push for labor reforms and better education to give its youth viable, legal alternatives to the drug trade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

There really, as far as we're concerned, are no alternatives to the arrangement that was negotiated."

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

"And,they have no alternatives before them. This makes them especially vulnerable to exploitation and violence as they search for food and shelter.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

To reverse the trend, experts agree that vending machines in schools should offer healthy alternatives.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

Here in the United States, stand-alone record stores have given way to such alternatives as digital downloading which now accounts for about 20 percent of all recorded music sales.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

So how do you feed a city like, for example, Nairobi or many other very large mega-cities with desperately poor people in them where food simply cannot be provided in cities without access to diesel and so on?" Taylor says governments need to start investing in safe and sustainable energy alternatives.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20