Today we tell about the life and work of one of America's greatest music writers: Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,NOAA, says the coral reefs that exist today are up to fifty million years old.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Today we continue our report about the life and music of one of America's greatest composers, George Gershwin.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Today we tell you about one of the few prisons in America that offer college-level classes: San Quentin State Prison in California.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

Today Rich Kleinfeldt and Steve Ember tell about one of America's most popular singers, Elvis Presley.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Today we tell about the life and music of one of America's greatest composers,George Gershwin.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

Today we go to New York City to visit the Museum of Chinese in America.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

Some people say "To Kill a Mockingbird" treats racism in a way that is simplistic, even offensive to blacks, and out of date in today's America.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Today we tell about Katharine Hepburn, one of America's great film and stage actresses.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Today we tell about Aaron Copland, one of America's best modern music composers.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Today Gwen Outen and Steve Ember tell about America's fortieth president, Ronald Reagan.

VOA: special.2011.02.06

Today we revisit the mystery of whatever happened to America's "Lost Colony."

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Today,we tell about one of America's greatest jazz musicians, Charlie Parker.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

Today we tell about one of America's best-known writers, Mark Twain.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Today we tell about Walt Whitman, one of America's greatest poets.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Today,we take you to seven man-made wonders in America.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

"So today,I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons."

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

Today,that number has doubled. Trust for America's Health, a non-profit group, has just issued its seventh report on obesity in America.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

According to USA Today, the price tag of getting such a program up and running in America would be around about $4 billion.

VOA: standard.2009.05.18

And even today,America, despite the lessons that it has learned, it still relies heavily on the military,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Charles Cooperbrings you this report. For the fourth time on his journey across America, Forrest Gump, the gardenerfrom Greenbow, Alabama, is about to crossthe Mississippi River again today.

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She said many of today's leaders in Latin America, like President "Lula" da Silva of Brazil or President Evo Morales of Bolivia, could never have been elected in previous decades.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

"We are finding that this is not only in the backward economy of developing countries, even though most forced labor today is indeed in the informal or the background agricultural sector of Asia, Latin America and then Africa."

VOA: standard.2009.08.21