She compared states, looking at differences in high school sports participation and in women's education and work.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

He plans to work to improve the legal system so that competing groups can settle their differences in court instead of the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

They were looking for differences in gene expression in the guts of the bees.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

This leads to big differences in economic results.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

And with only two months left and numerous hurdles remaining, questions are being raised about whether nations can narrow their differences in time.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"It seems like the differences in opinion vary as many as there are different organizations or groups.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

What Cecil found most interesting was that there were differences in the brains of the males and the females exposed to lead as children.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

In two other cities, Los Angeles,California and Huntsville,Alabama, a study also showed significant differences in radiation.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

But while both the House and Senate bills aim to help the roughly 30 million Americans with no health care insurance, there are big differences in legislative language.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

They know how to win over there,". The differences in opinion among veterans over what to do in Afghanistan reflect a broader uncertainty among the American public, says pollster Peter Brown.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Paul Salem,who heads the Carnegie Center for Peace in the Middle East,argues that, despite the current impasse, it is a positive sign that Iraqi political adversaries are discussing their differences in parliament.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Exactly how the differences in bacteria might make vaginally born babies less prone to allergies and asthma isn't yet clear, but it does point to a difference that researchers can look at going forward.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

The paper's authors tried to take into account other factors, but they admit it may not have been entirely possible to quantify differences in, for example,the recipient's health, which can be a big factor in the success of a transplant.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

With the impasse unlikely to be resolved before the end of this month, when U.S.troops will drop to their lowest levels in Iraq since the war began in 2003, the U.N.Security Council pressed the legislators to work through their differences in "the national interest" and form "as quickly as possible, a government that is inclusive and represents the will of the Iraqi people."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04