Thirty-six meters! That was far better than the six hundred meters space agency officials would have considered a complete success.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Yet researchers from Stanford University say new treatments are often no better than existing ones, but are almost always more costly.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

And he said men of Ohio who let themselves be drafted into the Union army were no better than slaves themselves.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Today,if a girl acts like she is better than everyone else, you might say she should get off her high horse.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said cutting health care costs step by step is better than the Democrats' plan.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Not officials,locals." Oliver Williamson has studied big companies and found that they often are better than markets at doing complex jobs.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

Those who sometimes ate curry, or ate it often or very often, did better than individuals who rarely or never ate curry.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

She studied pain management efforts in the United States, which she said were better than those of Britain.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

But she tells us in an e-mail: "A live conference feed was 100% better than a textbook.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

He argued that babies know better than anyone about when and how much they need to eat.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

He agreed that four years of Rutherford Hayes would be better than four years of civil war.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

The scientists on Antarctica know better than anyone about the effects of pollution and human behavior on this important treasure of a continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

One of the major ideas noted in the report is that some activity is better than none.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

L is for layers.Wearing loose, lightweight clothes, one layer on top of another, is better than wearing a single heavy layer of clothing.

VOA: special.2009.12.23