Right now, a scale is one of the only ways to monitor patients.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

Declarations,commitments and speeches don't feed hungry people, He says the scale of the challenge is significant. There are more than one billion poor and hungry people in the world today.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

This has been the situation in the Congo for many years." One of the reports focuses on the actions of government forces, some of whom engaged in large-scale pillaging, arbitrary killings and sexual violence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The flu outbreak is starting to affect the tourism industry, with one major airline announcing plans to scale back services between Australia and Japan by one-third because of a slump in demand from Japanese passengers.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30