Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

"A country such as Bangladesh or India, they average less than eight new implants per million.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Premature or preterm births are defined as births at less than thirty-seven weeks.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

"Extreme poverty" is defined as earning less than one dollar a day.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

China is also catching up. Meanwhile in the U.S., the fastest train,known as Acela, reaches less than half those speeds and only operates between Washington, New York and Boston.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

There are also images of him as he approached middle age in the 1990's a time he gained the blessing of no less a moral authority than Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

In closing the Under-20 World Cup in Egypt last Friday, FIFA President Sepp Blatter sounded less than assured in wishing the best to Nigeria as host of the Under-17 event, in what he described as the African year of football.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

But central to the debate going on in Britain is the very credibility of the Afghan government as more and more question whether British lives should be put at risk in support of what is seen as a less than clean Hamid Karzai government.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Less than two years later, Crist has left the Republican Party to run as an independent candidate in the race for a U.S.Senate seat in Florida, after realizing it was going to be impossible for him to win the Republican primary.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

women making up more than half of the U.S.population while occupying only 17 percent of the seats in U.S Congress, and constituting less than three percent of Fortune 500 company chief executive officers (SPEAKING) Madeleine Albright, who served as Secretary of State during the Clinton administration, pointed to the challenges women still face globally in achieving the same basic rights and dignity as men.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08