Now,a lighthearted film based on the book and directed by Ang Lee is about to be released.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

They wanted the country's economy to be based only on gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

So based on some early indications, scientists are projecting that we're actually going to be seeing a tsunami of brain cancer unless we do something to educate people to lower their exposure to this kind of risk."

VOA: special.2011.06.06

Insurance companies would no longer be allowed to deny health coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions a key point of weakness in and public anger with the current system.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

"A decision that I consider to be not only be unwise, but in fact based on a refusal to face the fact that what we are involved with here is a war with people who follow a religiously-based ideology that calls on them to kill us,and to return instead to the mindset that prevailed before September 11,2001,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

He also offered some tough talk. "I emphasized that this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter based on improved governance, a much more serious effort to eradicate corruption, joint efforts to accelerate the training of Afghan security forces so that the Afghan people can provide for their own security,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.02