For three years, al-Shabab has led militants in battles -- mostly against the peacekeepers -- for control of Mogadishu.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

In the next seven years, between nineteen-twenty-nine and nineteen-thirty-six, he seemed to re-invent the novel with every book he wrote.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

The people who started the company named it Google because in mathematics, googol,spelled g-o-o-g-o-l, is an extremely large number.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

During tough times -- I mean we are in a recession right now -- this is like affordable luxury.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

"The goal of the dual-language program is to teach low-income Hispanic children English -- good English, social English and academic English.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

But the oil is processed and exported -- at least for now -- from Port Sudan in the north.

VOA: special.2011.01.08

He believed that Americans -- North and South -- would accept the decision as the final word in the dispute.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

The delegations from the other six states of the Deep South -- Arkansas, Florida,Georgia,Louisiana,Mississippi, and Texas -- did the same.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

The bill,known as the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, would have the government buy four-and-one-half-million ounces of silver each month.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

They are left to grow naturally so the most desirable roots -- those most similar to wild ginseng -- are produced.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

The situation was so bad,Calhoun said, that the South could not -- with honor and safety -- remain in the Union.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

He says -- speaking by Skype from his office in Ann Arbor,Michigan -- that he is hopeful the program will work.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Also,the study says the United States fell from thirty-fourth to forty-ninth in female mortality and from forty-first to forty-fifth for men.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

A reputation -- what people think of you, good or bad -- is built one message at a time.

VOA: special.2011.07.22