The Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York City has been a leader in pain research and treatments linked to cancer.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

It has been in the news over the past months during a disputed takeover negotiation with the American company Kraft Foods.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

Or the writer could show how the subject may be understood better or in a different way than it has been.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Spanish researchers, for example,recently said they suspected a parasitic fungus which has been found among affected bees in Spain.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

"Apple has been a driver in some things and they have been a faithful adopter of good ideas in others."

VOA: special.2011.01.28

But the country has been split in half since a failed overthrow in two thousand two led to armed conflict.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

He is also a leader of a humanitarian aid organization that has been supporting a school in Haiti for years.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

For example, the vaccine has been available to a group of Maasai herders in northern Tanzania for about seven years.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

As a result, "in loco parentis" has been replaced by what some administrators call a "partnership" between the school and the family.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

In recent years there has been a strong push for local and state governments to ban public smoking.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

In fact,the Murano glassblowing tradition has been a major influence on one of the most famous American glass artists today, Dale Chihuly.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

It says there has been a major decrease in AIDS deaths in many countries as a result.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

In India, leprosy has traditionally been considered a punishment for something bad done in a former life.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

But rape has been used as a weapon of war in the Balkans, Burma and Sri Lanka.

VOA: special.2009.10.24