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Undecided Voters Key to 'Super Tuesday' Vote in Ohio This is an incredible opportunity we have to exercise the rights that God has given us, but also our civic responsibility and our spiritual responsibility, said Pastor Matt Keller, Sunday morning a
LESSON 156 A DYED-IN-THE-WOOL NONCONFORMIST Alastair Greaves was a man of highly nontraditional and nonconformist views. He did not even pay nominal regard to societys norms. What was normal to others most of the time was nothing but bother to him. F
By George Dwyer Washington, DC 03 March 2006 watch Top Cars report One of Consumer Report magazine's top cars Consumer Reports magazine's annual survey of preferred automobiles is out, and the results
By Steve Herman Kathmandu 10 October 2007 A special session of Nepal's parliament begins Thursday. The session will consider demands by the Maoists to immediately declare the state a republic and create a proportional representation system for nation
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 24 October 2006 The modern state of Azerbaijan is just 15 years old, but the country, a part of the former Soviet Union, has maintained its distinctive traditions. Azerbaijani Americans are working to keep alive their
By Joseph Mok New York City 27 March 2007 watch Sleepwalkers report New York City is often described as the city that never sleeps. But as day turns to night New Yorkers and their city take on a different rhythm, a different energy and a different i
A group of private Russian citizens is seeking to establish a network of corruption victims as a means of advancing President Dmitri Medvedev's plans to battle the country's oppressive bureaucracy and courts. Participants at an organizational meetin
Although the 2010 Football World Cup ended nearly six months ago, many people in South Africa are still basking in warm memories of the event, and most say it was the highlight of the year. For the organizers and the South African government it was t
Thousands Protest Nuclear Power in Japan Thousands of Japanese took to the streets of Tokyo to protest the country's nuclear-power plants. The rally occured as engineers continue to work on bringing the Fukushima Daiichi plant under control, after it
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Susan Orlean's new book is like an amble through the rooms and stacks of a library, where something unexpected and interesting can be discovered on any page. The library book begins with a fire in April 1986 that destroyed or damag
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 20 December 2007 Zimbabwe ended 2007 with uncertainty looming over national elections scheduled for next year. Negotiations aimed at holding a free and fair vote had made progress, but remained deadlocked over key points. S
By Al Pessin Pentagon 26 November 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is calling for a significant expansion in the budgets of government agencies that promote U.S. interests through diplomacy, foreign aid, information and other aspects of what
Some people say that it's civic duty to give back to your community. That's true but for me, I want to do some volunteer work so that I can feel useful. I've been working at the same job for years and it's not at all rewarding. Yes, I make good money
By Scott Bobb Bangkok 09 February 2006 United Nations and Cambodian officials who are coordinating the genocide trial of surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge have opened their offices in Phnom Penh. T
By Michael Bowman Buenos Aires 28 October 2007 Argentines are preparing to go to the polls Sunday to elect a new president, along with legislators and provincial governors. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Buenos Aires, few Argentines are expressing
A Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) supporter dances during an indefinite nationwide general strike by Maoist in Kathmandu on 2 May 2010 Nepal on Monday faces a third consecutive day of disruption of civic life as a nationwide strike called b
U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama set aside politics on Thursday as they honored the memory of those killed seven years ago in terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The sharp rhetoric that has marked much of this year
In 1990, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Moscow City Council changed the names of many, but not all, city streets that honored communist leaders associated with Soviet atrocities. Today, Russian civic activists are calling for a complet
By Scott Bobb Nairobi 11 February 2008 Aid officials in Kenya are warning that the country faces a serious humanitarian crisis because of the 300,000 people who have been displaced by violence that followed the country's disputed presidential electio
By Raymond Thibodeaux Rawalpindi, Pakistan 16 February 2008 Pakistan's national elections are due to be held Monday. The poll is seen as a test of the country's commitment to democracy. But many Pakistanis are expressing pessimism that the political