Two weeks ago, a Dutch drug-maker,Crucell, announced it will work with GlaxoSmithKline to jointly develop a new malaria vaccine candidate.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play "Othello."

VOA: special.2010.05.23

More than six hundred fifty million people have visited the Mall of America since it opened eighteen years ago.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

They wonder at the beauty of the area and imagine what it felt like to live there hundreds of years ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The Taos Pueblo you see today looks almost as it did to the Spanish when they arrived almost five centuries ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

President Obama notes that it was Theodore Roosevelt who first called for health care reform nearly a century ago.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

For example, the rate of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and Korea is now 3 times what it was 40 years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

But it is enough to feel the excitement of those gold seekers more than one hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

just before it dies. The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates talked of this two thousand three hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

One northerner wrote: "It was said hundreds of years ago that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

The prize in economic sciences has gone to sixty-three men since it was first awarded forty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

Many people visit Harpers Ferry to see a town that looks the same as it did more than one hundred fifty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Thomas Walsh had it built more than one hundred years ago as a home for his family.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Two years ago, it became the first school in the country to join the Confucius Classroom program.

VOA: special.2010.02.04