The researchers say Mali suffered less because it depended less on imported rice, in part because of geography.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the financial crisis developed in part because the existing system let some companies "shop for the weakest regulator."

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Geophysicist Julie Dutton says she expects the damage to be severe, in part because many buildings are not designed to withstand earthquakes.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

She says that's in part because the disease, in all its various biological forms, is so complicated.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Experts say the risk is low, in part because weather systems have kept the oil away.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Illegal logging is down in part because export countries are cracking down on the problem.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Voter turnout was lower than expected, especially in the troubled south, in part because of Taliban threats to disrupt the balloting and retaliate against voters.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

He talked about big corporations like General Motors that are in trouble in part because of the high cost of providing health insurance to employees.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

But the party's popularity has dropped,in part because of a big financial deficit.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

[He owns several pictures of Boy Scouts,in part, because he made his first film as a Boy Scout project...

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

But the Japanese government and public refused to acknowledge it until then - in part, because of the stigma associated with poverty.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

He said this was because it had not taken part in the 1970s anti-colonial war.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

just because you have a different religion or you're born in a different part of the world, we all experience the pain of a lost loved one,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

It's important for him to share stories. Growing up in Pendleton he was often found himself in the middle of racial tensions because he was is part white.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11