The American Food and Drug Administration says R.F.I.D.tags act like an electronic safety net to make it easier to catch counterfeits.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Germany -- like most of Europe -- has a broad safety net: benefits for the poor and unemployed, universal health care and good pensions.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

She remembers that she did. "I think like many of the children in our world, I got interested in science just from having a butterfly net and from having a few strainers and some boots and going down to the streams and creeks and being out in the fields."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29