Farm workers and others who said they often used pesticides had a forty-one percent greater risk of Parkinson's than other people.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

But as one doctor advises her patients, becoming a non-smoker is one way to gain control of your life.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

"Mississippi Masala" was a nineteen ninety-one film about an ethnic Indian family exiled from Uganda when Idi Amin comes to power.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

A low-fat diet is one in which less than thirty percent of a person's daily calorie intake comes from fat.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

Helen was their first child. Until she was a year-and-one-half old, Helen Keller was just like any other child.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

So what happens? He gets a title shot outdoors in the ballpark, and what do I get, a one-way ticket to Palookaville.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

He offered ten thousand dollars to anyone willing to follow him on a one-day climb without a rope.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

"Probably,for a one-hundred-fifty-thousand-dollar- a-year employee it would cost me in the range of ten to fifteen thousand dollars."

VOA: special.2011.05.13

The researchers said tPA improved the chances of a successful result by thirty-one percent and produced no change in the death rate.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

One suggestion is to remove the center from a loaf of bread and hide a snake inside -- a live one if possible.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

Their ad in the newspapers started a flood of letters - more than one hundred a day.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

The twenty-one year-old throws a sharp breaking ball that cuts across the plate at the last second.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

In nineteen forty-one, a leader in the black community,A.Philip Randolph, threatened to lead a giant march on Washington for civil rights for blacks.

VOA: special.2011.06.30

Anti-slavery activist William Lloyd Garrison started a paper in eighteen thirty-one with the purpose of ending slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.20