A doctor can use this test to tell if a patient might have the disease, as well as by studying the patient's medical history.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

The new initiative was praised by HIV/AIDS activists in South Africa as well as by the head of the United Nations AIDS agency who attended the ceremony.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02

So far attacks in the U.S. - at least those that are publicly known -- have been thwarted by heightened security awareness and increased counterterrorism measures from the U.S.side, as well as by both bad luck and professional incompetence on the terrorists' part.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

In the nineteen sixties, she began to sing more modern songs such as those written by the Beatles and Burt Bacharach.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

Women who said they were physically active even once a week showed less cognitive impairment as measured by a test.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

His education law,still in effect, required states to show yearly progress in student learning as measured by the states' own tests.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

He was dressed simply. His clothes were the same as those worn by the lowest soldiers in his army.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

BP's market value fell more than sixty billion dollars as its share price fell by as much as a third.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

For example, areas with mangrove forests were not damaged as badly by the Indian Ocean tsunami in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Rockman often shows nature as defined by a struggle for survival with a never-ending repetition of life and death.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

It tells the unusual story about a man who is born old and gets younger as time goes by.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

The group says the low cost vaccines could save as many as seven million lives by the year twenty thirty.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

In all,the I.M.F.says worldwide financial losses could be as high as four trillion dollars by the end of next year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

It had to keep moving to reach San Francisco in twenty-five days as required by the government contract.

VOA: special.2010.04.26