Research has linked participation in sports to positive effects like better self-image, fewer teen pregnancies and higher grades.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

I climbed higher and higher until I reached a little seat.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Michael Higgins studies the relationship between religion and higher education.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Prices rose higher and higher.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Some police,Coast Guard members and firefighters joined labor unions on the streets demanding "real jobs and higher pay."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

(Music) Rod Stewart's career keeps soaring higher and higher after the release of a series of albums dedicated to the Great American Songbook.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

While big plantations provide jobs, rights groups say they drive the price of land higher, and force many small farmers off their land.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

Khan pointed to numerous scientific studies from Europe,Canada, and the United States, as well as reports from the World Health Organization and the U.S.Institute of Medicine, that all show a link between veterinary use of antibiotics and higher risk of drug-resistant infections among humans.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Pittsburgh earned eighteenth place as researchers pointed to a relatively stable economy based on higher education and health care.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

But Anne Neal from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni says higher prices do not guarantee a better general education.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Their findings could help to engineer plants that grow better and more effectively in conditions with higher levels of carbon dioxide.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

In sub-Saharan Africa we have the highest death rates in the world, and they are around seven times higher than that."

VOA: special.2009.09.28

For example,for men in Swaziland, the difference between the best rate and the worst rate is nine times higher.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The ratio of nurses to population is about ten times higher in the United States and countries in the European Union.

VOA: special.2010.06.07