The Justice Department says rates in recent years fell to levels last seen in the middle of the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

But it said foreign language teaching in public elementary and middle schools dropped sharply in recent years.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Scientists say it formed when high sea levels flooded the middle of North America, splitting the continent in two for millions of years during the late Cretaceous period.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

Britain has a long history of deep involvement in not only Iran, but across the Middle East during the past 200 years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

He has spent the past nine years crisscrossing the Middle East in search of the answer.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

For years,the lack of reliable data on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa led regional governments to believe they had somehow managed to escape the epidemic.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

Former Egyptian Foreign Minister and Arab League Secretary-General Esmet Abdel Meguid, who was involved in Middle East peace talks for many years, said that Mr.Obama's award appears to be a positive development for peace in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

The author acknowledges that after nine years of large-scale U.S.military involvement in the Middle East, and with the nation's economic difficulties bearing down on them, many Americans feel the temptation to pull the U.S.strong horse out of the region.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18