Interactive Video Helps US Soldiers With Combat Stress Army veteran Robert Menendez knows this scenario all too well. This video simulation brings back memories of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. I was always having dreams, you know, certain things t...
Soaring Population, Climate Change Stress Resources Advances and losses Progress has been made. Since world leaders met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the first Earth Summit on Sustainable Development 20 years ago, global poverty has fallen by half,...
By Marissa Melton Washington 03 February 2007 U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, a Democrat from New York, and Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, were the keynote speakers at a conference this week unveiling a number of radical ide...
By Richard Green Washington 17 September 2006 A woman carrying a sign supporting Arabs argues with a man at New York's Union Square (File photo - Sept. 15, 2001) In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States five years...
By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 07 March 2006 view PostTraumatic report The headlines from Iraq are filled almost daily with stories of average people caught in the crossfire between insurgents and co...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 02 March 2006 U.S. officials say they are working to step up global efforts to detect and contain outbreaks of the bird flu virus as soon as they occur. The virus has so far...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Stress: What It Can Do to Us, What We Can Do About It By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - September 3, 2002: Stress and Illness By Cynthia Kirk VOICE ONE: This is Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with Science in the News, a VOA Special English program ab...
AGRICULTURE REPORT – January 22, 2002: Treating Stress in Animals By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. People often experience stress as a result of events in their liv...
By David McAlary As the prevalence of heart disease increases worldwide, researchers have found that people in developing countries suffer from it for the same reasons people in industrial nations do....