Okinawa is Japan's smallest prefecture in terms of land, but it is home to about half the approximately 47,000 U.S.military personnel on bases and ships in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

"In terms of how the Scottish government approached this, then everything we have done was not about any deals or understandings or negotiations, it was done on the basis of Scots law, what is there within our system,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

"At a per-passenger-mile basis, rail is about three times as efficient as travel by car, in terms of fuel efficiency, and six times as efficient as travel by air, so there are pretty substantial pollution reduction benefits both in terms of greenhouse gases and other pollutants."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

Director Roxana Silbert, "What's great about what we're doing is it allows them to come to it in their own terms and of course the thing that young people find most alienating about Shakespeare is the language, which feels like a different language to them and this isn't in anyway attempting to copy Shakespeare's language - it's written by young people in a language they would use."

VOA: standard.2010.05.07