"In a single generation, we've fallen from first place to twelfth place in college graduation rates for young adults.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Today the idea lives on in a new generation of string trimmers and edgers that people often call weed whackers.

VOA: special.2011.07.19

"We're hearing also talk of 'super phones' which have fourth-generation chips in them that allow instantaneous access to videos and photos.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

The Agriculture Department has a soybean germplasm collection, a collection of genetic material passed from one generation to the next.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

In the last generation or so, different groups have encouraged public schools to celebrate diversity and cultural differences.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Wendy Hawkins at the Intel Foundation says these young people represent the next generation of scientists who will help shape America's future.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

This way,they can observe changes in the structure of a deadly organism from one generation to the next.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

But some in Congress want to cancel plans for the next-generation replacement for the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

VOA: special.2011.07.18

This is the first time scientists have successfully passed on a foreign gene to a future generation.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

These efforts are helping to teach a whole new generation about the magical world of puppetry arts.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

"You can be the generation that brings opportunity and prosperity to forgotten corners of the world and banishes hunger from this continent forever.

VOA: special.2011.06.24

But health spending has rocketed over the past generation to about seventeen percent of the economy.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

But to his parents generation the word is a reminder of the counter-revolutionary movement in Nicaragua.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

This shows that the robots developed for Mars have won over a new generation of explorers.

VOA: special.2010.07.28