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By Phillip Wellman Dakar 25 September 2007 A program to issue identity papers to millions of undocumented northerners has begun in Ivory Coast, a step many say is necessary to reconcile the divided nation as elections draw closer. Phillip Wellman rep...
By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 05 January 2007 watch Masterpiece or Fake Art report The Authentic Project finds another fascinating use for digital technology. Researchers are using it to understand the brains of the great artists, and in so doing the...
By Bill Gasperini Sakhalin, Russia 20 October 2006 A giant energy project on Russia's remote Sakhalin Island has recently come under scrutiny because of environmental concerns. A foreign run consortium has long been building parallel gas and oil pip...
By Michael Kohn Kabul 19 October 2006 Houses in Murad Khane that will be restored by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation The neighborhood of Murad Khane in Kabul's Old City was once a wealthy area of merchants and members of the royal family. But afte...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 23 September 2006 The European Union is providing nearly $700,000 to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) to look for cases of avian influenza in Nigeria. The surveillance program aims to help eradicate the disease...
By Marilyn Rice Christiano Broadcast: August 20, 2003 (THEME) ANNCR: Explorations -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (THEME) (Apollo Eleven Countdown) A rocket launch countdown....
Broadcast: Feb 05, 2003 Two of the world's most innovative design teams have won the right to compete in what is possibly the most high profile design project in history, the site of New York's destro...
Broadcast: Jan 28,2003 Four schools around the United States are taking part in a project that honors women pioneers in the arts, sports, media, and other fields. The program is designed to inspire st...
By Rebecca Ward Bringing Athens' transportation up to speed ahead of the summer games proved more difficult than what most modern cities usually endure, as massive construction projects turned into ex...