That's how long it took for an international team of scientists to excavate and analyze the fossilized skeleton of a 4.4 million year old human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus, which was discovered in Ethiopia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

The American food company Mars took the lead in paying for mapping the genes of the Forastero cocoa tree.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

For example,she took pictures of couples and families and even of female twins, sisters born at the same time.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Still,EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki said the meeting took "a step in the right direction for sustainable management" of bluefin tuna.

VOA: special.2010.12.14

President Felipe Calderon has deployed thousands of troops for anti-drug efforts since he took office in two thousand six.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

Almost thirty years later, she received a MacArthur Fellowship for her work on the genocide that took place there.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

All it took to force a negotiated settlement was for these dangerous men to show their faces in Dodge City.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

She was in Paris. Some of her stories were never used because it took too long for them to reach the magazine.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

In two thousand one, a group of women took legal action against the company for sex discrimination.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

Yet,it took some time for the team to confirm that the amino acid glycine came from space.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

This was done as specially equipped vehicles took pictures for the Google mapping feature called Street View.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

These took place for Columbia Records in New York City in March and April of nineteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.10.18

The I.C.C.review conference took place even as the president was just sworn in for a new term.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

The last day for nominations was February first, less than two weeks after the president took office.

VOA: special.2009.10.10