But he says understanding these differences can help discover how some complex processes on our own planet really work.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Anyway, I guess you could say me and Mama was on our own.

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Writer-director Cameron also acknowledges that what the humans try to do on the fictional Pandora is a clear metaphor for what he believes are the dangers of exploitation on our own planet;

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

The fact that the show is now coming to an end, and we're ending it on our own terms as opposed to the show is being canceled, or went on three or four years after it should have, really generates this tremendous excitement."

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

We have a growing number of followers on Twitter and our own popular YouTube channel.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

On supporting local leadership and ideas, rather than imposing our own."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

But that is not the case. Trafficking is a crime that involves every nation on earth, and that includes our own."

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

"And we've demonstrated the importance of American leadership - and American partnership - on behalf of our own security, and the world's."

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

But I think that we have put our own stamp on something very traditional and we can add our own personalities to it.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

"I think that there is a realism on our part that it will be some time before Afghanistan is able to sustain its security forces entirely on its own,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"We need,absolutely,to focus on the restructuring of our own public resources towards agriculture, and then the resources coming from the international community will be a complementary form of resource,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

"The lives of our soldiers are being put on the line because of our own security and that is the only reason that a government in any country would put our soldiers lives in danger."

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

But David DeGennaro with the Environmental Working Group puts it this way: "It's really kind of ridiculous that American taxpayers are going to be subsidizing Brazilian cotton farmers just so that we can keep on subsidizing our own cotton farmers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

After 50 years of silence, I think the time has come to take stock and say, maybe we should mobilize all of the sciences to look for anything fishy, anything weird,any anomaly, both in our own little corner of the universe here on Earth and in the solar system, and far out across the galaxy."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16