It helps reduce the number of high school drop-outs in Los Angeles and the San Francisco area.

VOA: special.2011.03.02

All this wet air is pulled in by a high pressure area over the Indian Ocean and a low pressure area to the south.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

It was the true story about two high school basketball players from a poor area of Chicago, Illinois, and the problems they faced in college.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

The high winds and angry seas in this area of the world created deadly storms.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

From high in the air, visitors can clearly see the third area of the park -- a high broad flat rock known as the Island in the Sky.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Slowly the area became what visitors see today -- a dry land of high flat mesa tops and deep canyons formed through thousands of years by flowing rivers.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The coast of Nigeria has long been a high risk area.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The 23 year old spent his teen years in the Denver,Colorado area, where he attended high school.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

The high point of President Medvedev's stay in the United States will be his visit to Silicon Valley - an area in northern California known for its high-tech companies, venture capitalists and forward-looking entrepreneurs.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18