U.S.states where more people said they got no physical exercise outside work lost more quality adjusted life years.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The effect of a disease - or a condition like obesity - can be tallied by a measure called quality-adjusted life years lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

For example,one question they wanted to answer was whether the loss of quality life years was due to people dying sooner - mortality - or living in poor health - morbidity.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"In terms of the burden of disease, it increased for everyone, but in particular it was black women who had 31 percent more in 2008 quality-adjusted life years lost compared to black men.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

City College of New York professor Erica Lubetkin is one of the authors of a new study that looked at the loss of quality life years due to obesity and how that changed between 1993 and 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before 9/11.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

For over sixty years, Sendak's artistic skill has brought to life richly imaginative worlds filled with children, animals and magical creatures.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

He spent the next thirty-four years of his life collecting stones and building a wildly imaginative palace building.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Clara Barton really began her life of caring for the sick when she was only eleven years old.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

The puppeteers train for many years to move as one in bringing the puppet to life to act in complex theater productions.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

He wrote a book about the final years in the political life of a long-time mayor of Boston,Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

She was eighty-nine years old. In her later years, she was forced to live a simple life because of lack of money.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Tom Farnquist says shipwrecks are exciting because they preserve a detailed picture of maritime life that can be hundreds of years old.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

She was seventy-three years old. She leaves behind a written record of her life and legacy through the words of her poems.

VOA: special.2010.04.18