The use of scientific knowledge in legal cases is called forensics, from the Latin term for a public forum.

VOA: special.2009.10.03

We use a leash to walk our pet dogs, The leash keeps dog from running away or getting into trouble.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Anderson told Faulknerto develop his own way of writing, and to use material from his own part of the country.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

They said they want DDT banned, but recognize that some countries use it to protect people from diseases like malaria.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

The researchers also documented the use of insecticide chemicals by the Chinese farmers from nineteen ninety-two to two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

These included questions from Rwandan students about subjects like drug use, H.I.V./AIDS and girls in school who get pregnant.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Speaking of personal questions, there is an expression people sometimes use when their children ask, "where do babies come from?"

VOA: special.2009.06.28

More than three billion people are at risk from indoor air pollution because of the heating or cooking fuels they use.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

The group says the strongest growth in mobile phone use now comes from newly industrialized and developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Americans know about them mainly from a history of use as pack animals in Arizona and other areas of the desert Southwest.

VOA: special.2010.02.16

When this happens,he said, money is withdrawn from the people's use and kept in the public treasury, where it does no good.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Instead,you should use sand from rivers or from other areas of land that are not near the sea.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Baseball expert Richard Miller writes that many songs about other subjects -- such as love -- use words and expressions from baseball.

VOA: special.2011.04.04

It is surprising how many expressions that Americans use every day came from the card game of poker.

VOA: special.2009.11.22