Their study looked at the causes of disability among fifteen thousand people age sixty-five or older in seven countries.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

It says for every ten dollar necklace sold, the beader gets two dollars and forty-three cents in money or materials.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

He says the agency currently has twenty-eight projects working in astrobiology, or the study of life in outer space.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

In Canada,for example, indigenous -- or First Nation people live on average seven fewer years than Canadians of European ancestry.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

"In the major time-share developments, the major fractional developments or full ownership, more than half of those purchases are from Americans."

VOA: special.2011.06.13

The organization had been established in eighteen sixty-three to offer better treatment for people wounded or captured during wars.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

The study found there is strong support for restricting work by doctors-in-training to sixteen or fewer hours at one time.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

In return,he had to promise that the mail would travel from Saint Louis,Missouri, to San Francisco,California, in twenty-five days or less.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

"One of the really frustrating things for patients with fibromyalgia is that there's nothing to measure in labs or in X-rays.

VOA: special.2011.08.02

Many victims live in areas with poor or non-existent health care systems and where antivenom treatments are often not available.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

She gave birth to Thomas -- or Tiggy, as his parents call him -- at a hospital in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

She says people would not even notice a difference in taste with three grams, or one-half teaspoon, less salt per day.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Researchers found large reductions in heavy,or binge, drinking in young people between nineteen seventy-nine and two thousand six.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

It was one of the last films produced by Metro Pictures Corporation before it became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,or MGM, in nineteen twenty-four.

VOA: special.2011.02.18