The researchers say the maternal death rate has been falling almost one and a half percent a year since nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

American children now spend an average of seven and a half hours a day watching television or playing with electronic devices.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

The Alaska Travel Industry Association says tourism directly pumps a billion and a half dollars a year into the state economy.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

But he missed from about two and a half meters, and then lost in a playoff to American Stewart Cink.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

But finer materials such as compost should only be two and a half to seven and a half centimeters high.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

He and a team of researchers there have built a house made out of straw bale and hemp material.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Last spring,Michelle Obama and a group of students planted a vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

So were twelve and a half percent of Asians and almost nine and a half percent of non-Hispanic whites.

VOA: special.2010.09.18

It stands about half a meter tall and has a blue body and a friendly face with big eyes.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

The team includes Muslims and Christians,mothers,a librarian, a business student and a woman who competed in a beauty pageant.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

He runs a big company. He wears a suit and tie, and a shirt with sleeves that cover his arms.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

A bird with broad white wings and a long slender neck flew past Sylvie and landed on a pine branch below her.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

And we serve them with a trio of dipping sauces -- chocolate,ginger cream cheese and a blackberry jam."

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Her "Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir" and her collection "Next: New Poems" were both nominated for Pulitzer Prizes in nineteen eighty-seven.

VOA: special.2010.04.18