Getting children to be more physically active in and after school and improving playgrounds in neighborhoods.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Brimmer promises the Obama Administration will be an active and constructive participant in Council deliberations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Sotomayor spent years as a federal judge before her Supreme Court appointment, and legal analysts expect her to be an active advocate in the court's oral and written debates.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

Officials also still not have released any figures for voter turnout, which observers predict may be as low as 10 percent in areas where the Taliban insurgency is active.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Clinton said Aung San Suu Kyi "has every right" to resume an active role in politics and that her future role would be something the Burmese people, and not the United States, would have to decide.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

U.N.Special Representative Radhika Coomaraswamy says during the past year, a significant number of child soldiers were released by the National Liberation Forces in Burundi and more children are to be released in the Central African Republic and the Philippines as a result of active intervention by the United Nations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16