The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

She said the company should give a prize to the best student in a high school near the factory.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

He said the election of a citizen to the office of president should not be a reason for dissolving the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Obsidian is a kind of black glass formed when the heat of a volcano melts the silica material in sand.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Once again,he said the war was not a struggle for the Union, but a fight to free the slaves of the south.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

And there is a more personal connection to the entertainment than going to a movie or the theater.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

To test the liquid, he placed a drop in the soil of a dying flower growing in a pot in the room.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

A person attaches a tube to the goat and, after a little pumping, the milk begins to flow.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

He was not always a clergyman. During the first half of his life he was a teacher in the military school at Woolwich.

VOA: special.2011.03.26

They said a thin valley in the Atlantic Ocean was a place where the ocean floor splits.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

A concussion happens when the brain is shaken, often in a car crash or a fall or a strike to the head in sports.

VOA: special.2009.10.28

If a person donated the token to a group project, the token was worth half of that amount to each person in the group.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

A report in the Journal of Biogeography describes how a team from the British Antarctic Survey and University of Hamburg searched the South Orkney Islands.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Engineers on the ground designed a way the astronauts could connect air-cleaning devices from the command module to the air system in the lunar module.

VOA: special.2009.07.22