Now anyone can join. Facebook said it had over two hundred fifty million active users as of July.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

But the link was strongest among those who were active as teenagers.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

They rated themselves as less depressed and more active in school.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Yet he continued to be active as a conductor and speaker.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

The Bush Administration refused to participate as an active member, claiming the panel was overly influenced by countries with serious human-rights problems of its own.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Sotomayor spent years as a federal judge before her Supreme Court appointment, and legal analysts expect her to be an active advocate in the court's oral and written debates.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

Officials also still not have released any figures for voter turnout, which observers predict may be as low as 10 percent in areas where the Taliban insurgency is active.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Where the U.K.has done it, given active support to it, if Australia wants to position itself as a financial services hub for the Asia-Pacific region, it has to,in my view, embrace Islamic financing too."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

He says many don't even have the active ingredients in them. There is a tendency to treat all fevers as malaria in West Africa,and resistance to otherwise effective treatments, like cloroquine, has become a problem.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

"For me,I think it was more difficult because I dealt with the guilt of missing my child, having him so far away, then always trying to get home on the weekends to see him, as well as keeping up with school and remaining active,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

U.N.Special Representative Radhika Coomaraswamy says during the past year, a significant number of child soldiers were released by the National Liberation Forces in Burundi and more children are to be released in the Central African Republic and the Philippines as a result of active intervention by the United Nations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16