Another American study says obesity has become as great a threat to quality of life as smoking.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

In recent years,however, asbestos has become feared as a threat to human health.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

But rodeo clowning has become such a valued specialty that most clowns are as young and vigorous as the competitors.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

The survey released Monday indicates trade finance has since July improved in most APEC economies as more cash has become available.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

These cheap cars, for which India has become a production hub, are becoming popular as the world grapples with a recession.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

"It has become a diagnostic tool that informs and guides our efforts as we seek to build a global partnership to combat modern slavery,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

The short movie,which began as an undergraduate project at Flinders University in Adelaide, has become an advertisement for cultural harmony following a series of assaults on Indian students in Australia.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

"It creates a societal change, an economic growth, it creates jobs.As the world has become so interconnected, it's provided an opportunity for entrepreneurs no matter where they are to access any market that exists,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

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

In the United States, a vote in Congress is expected in the coming weeks that could authorize up to $4,500 to individuals who trade in vehicles in what has become known as the "cash for clunkers" bill.

VOA: standard.2009.05.18

"There are several problems with this notion of a failed state," "One of them is that somehow in Mexico,all of a sudden, the government has become heavily corrupted by cartels as if there wasn't corruption in the past.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

"Vitamin D has become a very hot topic in medicine now as we are discovering very high levels of vitamin D deficiency in our population, not only in the U.S.,but worldwide" Vitamin D helps our bodies absorb calcium and helps form and maintain strong bones.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

"It is a fact,unfortunately, that the word democracy has become a code word in recent years for regime change and maybe for armed intervention regime change, but at the end of the day, there is a core value that Americans have stood for, that we have to continue stand for, and we can't allow that as well to become a fundamental impediment to improving the relations we are talking about."

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11