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

The foundation says ninety-five percent are accepted into a university graduate program within one year of getting a fellowship.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

For the past year, the World Food Program has operated a project to prevent hunger in twenty-one countries in Africa.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

A study in the United States found that eighty-four percent of undergraduates last year had at least one credit card.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

One-third of those asked said stress levels about their financial situation are much higher now than a year ago.

VOA: special.2010.10.12

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

VOA: special.2010.06.18

The researchers studied the diets of thirty-one thousand children ages two to eighteen over a thirty-year period.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

After one year, the risk of heart disease for a non-smoker is half that of a smoker.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

The latest one shows that seventy-one million homes in the United States last year included a pet.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

She suggests that students budget at least one thousand three hundred dollars for a nine-month school year.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

By the spring of nineteen forty-one, Europe had been at war for a year and a half.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Professor Irvine-Halliday says many people spend well over one hundred dollars a year on the fuel.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

The Copenhagen Accord sets a goal of one hundred billion dollars a year in aid to help poor nations with climate control by twenty-twenty.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

One of Carlene Stephens' favorite artifacts is a four hundred fifty-year old carved figure from Germany.

VOA: special.2011.06.21

The seventy-one year old cried tears of joy as she told the crowd the award was "a long time coming" but worth the wait.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

Alternate bearing is when a tree produces a heavy crop one year, called an "on-crop,"

VOA: special.2009.11.10