To address this issue, the International Rice Research Institute,or IRRI, is working towards developing varieties of white rice whose starch is released slowly.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

Ms.Merkel is the first German leader to speak before a joint meeting of Congress, and the first to address the House or Senate since Konrad Adenauer in 1957.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"This will be the subject of a full investigation. If there is any evidence that any government agency could have or should have done better, we will certainly be taking all relevant action to address that,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

In his weekly address, Mr.Obama says Americans can honor veterans by sending a letter or package to troops overseas, volunteering at health clinics or just saying "thank you" to a veteran walking by on the street.

VOA: standard.2009.05.23

"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11