Zhou Yang broke the women's beating the previous mark held by compatriot Wang Meng.Zhou, Wang and their two teammates bettered the mark in the 3000-meter relay that China had set at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

Mark Johnson's idea, "Playing for Change," is now a CD,a DVD, a documentary film, a nonprofit organization and a company.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

The institute's research director, Mark Teffeau,says the flowerpot works well for vegetables and small flowering plants like geraniums and impatiens.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

And,Barbados will mark World Alzheimer's Day with events like a religious service, a health fair and performances by musicians.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

Bill invented the method of using a hot branding iron to permanently put the mark of a ranch on a cow's skin.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

Mark Bedau of Reed College in Oregon says Mister Venter's work marks an important step over traditional genetic engineering of individual genes.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

The center's director,Mark Serreze, says it is good to see what he calls, a little recovery.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

And each presidential family has left its own historical mark on America's most famous house.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Mark Zuckerberg was also accused of stealing other people's ideas and using them in Facebook.

VOA: special.2011.01.14

Some critics think Mark Twain's later works were more serious because of his sadness.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

So I don't necessarily think that summer reading has to be something light, has to be something mindless" Two of Mark LaFramboise's suggested books involve animals.

VOA: special.2011.07.13

Mark Hurd got credit for building Hewlett-Packard into the world's largest technology company.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Mark Twain tells this boy's story in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

VOA: special.2010.03.21

This Fourth of July will mark America's two hundred and thirty-fourth birthday.

VOA: special.2010.07.02