Faith Lapidus has more. Dan Brown's earlier novel, "The Da Vinci Code,"

VOA: special.2009.10.09

Islamic leaders said the new code contains provisions that are an affront to the country's traditional values and religious beliefs.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

President Obama says the U.S.tax code is cheating the United States out of good-paying jobs and badly needed funds.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

But a section of the country's labor code states that women should not do "hard,physical" labor that entails harmful or dangerous conditions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

"It could be a pseudonym,". "It could be a code name, but please be assured it's not the Rahul that you think it is."

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

The code's more than 1,100 new articles would have increased women's rights by reforming laws with regards to land ownership, inheritance,education, employment and marriage.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

They can even map a pathogen's genetic code, which changes from generation to generation.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Mali's family code has not been changed since 1962, a year after independence.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure announced Wednesday that he is sending the family code back to the National Assembly for additional revisions to correct what he called "a few imperfections."

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Even as women's groups applauded the code as a way to combat the forced marriage of young girls and give wives more economic power, many Mali women opposed it as an attack on traditional values.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27