In some areas,healthy yellow, brown and green reefs have become a bleached white color.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

The scenes of striking workers at factory gates have become a regular sight in the past month.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

even have to ask me FIFA sponsored fan parks have become a big hit around Johannesburg.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

"Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

But souvenirs have become a major business as well, and at the 2010 Winter Games, souvenirs require almost as much strategy and patience as winning a medal.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

It was a relaxed and happy atmosphere for the group. A chance to put aside the physical therapy, surgeries and doctor appointments that have become a part of their daily routines.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

"We have become a nation of extremes, at least within our government, with the liberals on the Democratic side and the conservatives on the Republican side over-represented in the Congress of the United States."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Although face masks, which have become a common sight in Mexico City, are worn by only a few people on the streets of Juarez,pharmacies say they are doing a brisk business selling them.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

The more pessimistic Venetian residents say the countdown has begun and that if the exodus continues at this rhythm, in 2030 Venice will have become a ghost city with no more citizens, just hordes of tourists.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

The president would have become, in effect,a prime minister, requiring the support of Congress to remain in office.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

She said she did not have to act like a white woman that Hollywood hoped she would become.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Their beauty and songs have become part of our understanding of what a healthy environment should support.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

"There's a lot of fans I come across who have gone on to have careers in law enforcement or become attorneys like myself.

VOA: special.2009.08.24