I have been suffering from back pain for years. Ive tried several treatments prescribed by my doctor, but nothing has had a lasting effect. I finally decided to try alternative medicine. My friend, Amelia, swore by acupuncture. She said that her knee...
This week well discuss choices about how best to use the words option and alternative. Frequently the words option and alternative are used interchangeably, but there is a difference. Do you know what it is? Lets say Horatio has a primary plan of act...
Researchers at Stanford University in California say acupuncture can be an effective weapon against depression in pregnant women. Depression can pose serious health risks to mother and baby, according to Rachel Manber, a Stanford University psychiatr...
Taylor Swift could do no wrong in 2009. Not only did the young Pennsylvania native have the year's best-selling album with Fearless, she also earned Artist Of The Year plaudits from Billboard magazine. Her public standing was further bolstered in Sep...
When the wind picks up at the foot of the Rockies, there are those who believe they can hear the future. At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, making alternative power sources competitive with fossil fuels has been a mission since the energy...
By Paula Wolfson Sao Paulo, Brazil 09 March 2007 The United States and Brazil have entered a new partnership to promote the production of ethanol around the world. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the two countries signed a...
By Gary Thomas Washington 09 February 2007 The controversy over the Bush Administration's pre-war intelligence on Iraq was further fuelled Friday by an internal Pentagon critique of the work of a little-known Defense Department office. As VOA corresp...
By John Shields Washington, DC 28 February 2006 watch Food vs Fuel report With the world's oil supply increasingly at risk of terrorist attacks and other disruptions, there is an international rush to...
By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: July 17, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Education Report. Some young people in the United States attend 1)alternative schools. These are schools that...
By Katherine Cole Tres Chicas is a rarity on the music charts: A vocal group in which all three singers are frontwomen in their own right. And don't get ready to rumba, because despite their Latin nam...
