The researchers estimate that at least five hundred forty million people have the deficiency, about eight percent of the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

The union leaders said they were willing to have the president appoint an independent committee to settle the strike.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Today we have the first of two programs about how the Lomax family helped keep American folk music from being lost.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

"You cannot choose your own classes. And you don't have the right to drop out of one of them."

VOA: special.2009.11.05

Some college presidents and others have suggested that a lower drinking age could have the effect of reducing alcohol abuse.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

In sub-Saharan Africa we have the highest death rates in the world, and they are around seven times higher than that."

VOA: special.2009.09.28

But she says children all over the world have the right to the same assistance as children everywhere else.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

For about a month, the proposed bill seemed to have the support of the administration of President Zachary Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

And there are two kinds. Most people of European or African ancestry have the "wet" kind: thick and sticky.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

But we'll let Jennifer Neiman, co-owner of Cupcakes Actually in Fairfax,Virginia, have the last word about the appeal of cupcakes.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

And the experts say the average age of people found to have the disease is between 20 and 50 years old.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

But there was still a question about whether corporations could have the same freedom of political speech as real people do.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

She wrote that women have the major role in one group in New Guinea without causing any special problems.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

He says the biggest challenge is jobs the disabled have the lowest employment rate of any minority group in the country.

VOA: special.2009.08.15