USAID Democracy Programs Can Complicate International Relations After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the leaders of Russia asked the U.S. for assistance in building a democracy and a market economy. Over the past 20 years, election-monitoring grou...
Pakistan Prisons' Mother-and-Infant Program Gets Mixed Reviews Mohib, aged five, has spent half his life in jail. His mother, a convicted murderer, brought her sons into prison with her two-and-a-half years ago. Sehar Bibi says her boys would rather...
Tensions Rising Again Over Irans Nuclear Program The United States is moving significant military firepower to the Persian Gulf and is increasing the number of fighter planes that could strike deep into Iran if the country moves to build a nuclear bo...
Health Care Program for Seniors Emerges as Key Election Issue At the University Village Senior Living Community Clinic in Tampa, Florida, Hugh Clark gets his blood checked regularly. Having had heart problems, he relies on Medicare and opposes any pl...
Project Mercury: The American Space Program Begins SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (SOUND) That announcement was made May fifth, nineteen sixty-one. It was the first manned flight of project Mer...
Math Program Adds Up for Kids A pilot project is being launched in Malawi and Bangladesh to teach kids that math is fun and that it matters. Save the Children calls it the Numeracy Boost program. Former U.S. public school teacher Shirin Lutfeali help...
Stanford Study Gives US Global AIDS Program High Marks In 2003, President Bush launched PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS, to combat the AIDS pandemic in developing countries. With the approval of Congress, we'll devote $15 billion to f...
Walking Program Pairs Patients with Doctors These days Mary Halpin loves to walk. This walk is just giving me life, you know. 6 years ago, Halpin could barely walk half a block. Now she can go 20 times longer. Depending upon the block, it can be betw...
Space Exploration Enthusiasts Say US Program Adrift A half century ago, NASA sent astronauts to the moon, and for the past three decades used its space shuttle for low-earth orbit missions. But many veterans of NASA's glory years, such as former John...
Student Addicts Live, Recover Together at US University Program At Rutgers University, one student was scoring in a game of virtual soccer. It was a small victory in one of two recovery dorms. The 38 students in the so-called Recovery House there see...