The seeds and pollen have left a forty-thousand-year record of the environment and weather for this area of California.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

In one area was a blank canvas that had been waiting twenty-five years for the first line of paint.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

The team of students and research volunteers set off on a three-week boat trip to examine the area.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

A good place for watching unusual-looking people is Venice, an area on the west side of Los Angeles.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Still,this would only mean that there are community-level outbreaks in at least one other country in a different area of the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

That is why it is hard to tell a powerful storm, Hurricane Andrew, caused severe damage to the area in nineteen ninety-two.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Some people have been able to escape across the waters of a lagoon to a government-controlled area.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

There,he discovered that the illegal practice of long-line fishing was taking place in a protected sea area.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

In eighteen fifty-eight a design competition was held to find the best idea for planning this huge area in the center of New York City.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Texas has a land area of more than six hundred and seventy-eight thousand square kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The area is really a desert, receiving only about thirty-five centimeters of rain a year.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Slave-holders in Missouri did not want the Nebraska area to become a free territory.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

And a birds-eye view is a general look at an area from above.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

This is a non-immigrant visa for work in the person's area of specialty.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Euro-area nations have set up a bailout fund of about one trillion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

From high in the air, visitors can clearly see the third area of the park -- a high broad flat rock known as the Island in the Sky.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Slowly the area became what visitors see today -- a dry land of high flat mesa tops and deep canyons formed through thousands of years by flowing rivers.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

About twenty-four-thousand years ago, it rained a great deal in the area.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

In June,volunteers placed seventy-six thousand spartina plants in a wetlands area.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

In seventeen sixty-nine, a group of Spanish explorers visited the area.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

The children are all fourth-graders at a Washington-area elementary school.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

"I know a lot of schools have their own newspaper or newsletter, but don't know of many who have a newspaper for the school that's part of a reservation-wide or huge area-wide publications."

VOA: special.2011.04.07

On Thursday,Hisbul Islam spokesman Muse Abdi Arale said militants had repelled an alleged AMISOM incursion deep into a rebel-held area.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21