Now estimates put urban home ownership at 80 percent or higher.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

The Chronicle of Higher Education says at least fifty-eight private colleges now charge fifty thousand dollars or more a year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Rates are higher when people do not trust their leaders or feel protected or connected to society.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

When a light particle,or photon, hits an electron, the electron jumps to a higher energy state.

VOA: special.2010.09.01

The study says the IQs or intelligence quotients of the younger children who were not spanked were five points higher than those who were.

VOA: special.2009.10.21

"People from all walks of life, and particularly from rural areas or marginalized communities, can have access to higher education at the most advanced levels, and our program provides that opportunity."

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Researchers discovered that people whose brains have higher levels of leptin are less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

"When you compare the purchasing power the foreign purchasing power would be much higher than the middle-class or upper-class purchasing power in Thailand.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

President Obama told the graduating class at Arizona State that what drives them through life should not be money, celebrity or power, but a higher calling.

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

Some recent surveys show the president's overall approval rating at or just above 50 percent a far cry from higher numbers in the early days of his administration.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

Under the House bill, the prohibition on denying coverage would begin one year earlier in 2013, with similar prohibitions on higher premiums based on pre-existing conditions or gender.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"Tools that will enable them to grow more crops, grow higher value crops, grow more crops per season or per year, and then be able to earn income from those crops,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Sullivan,who once served as secretary of the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services, says minority physicians see a higher percentage of patients with either no insurance, or covered by Medicaid, the government insurance program for low-income Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05