In fact,the orientation program for new students at Virginia Tech this summer includes a meeting for parents called "Parents as Partners."

VOA: special.2009.07.09

"One of the key elements here was flattening the hierarchy in the operating room so that everybody, the scrub tech,the nurse, the surgeon,the anesthesiologist, whomever it is in the operating room could bring up any concerns they had about the patient."

VOA: special.2010.10.20

He welcomed its commitments to reduce barriers to foreign investment in services, high-tech goods, energy saving products and high-end manufacturing.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

It's a question tech watchers pose following the success of anti-government protesters in getting their message out last June following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

The high point of President Medvedev's stay in the United States will be his visit to Silicon Valley - an area in northern California known for its high-tech companies, venture capitalists and forward-looking entrepreneurs.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

"And their struggle and barrier is having an adequate health workforce and facilities for the kind of high-tech things that happen to mothers that are at risk " In contrast,Boufford says developed nations have excellent medical technology.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23