These problems may appear and then disappear, sometimes resulting in long periods when there are no problems at all.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

The water is collected through two holes and in the holes there is a siphon to carry it to the soil.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

And,in one language in Botswana, there are three main kinds of plants and animals: edible "eat-things", harmful "bite-things" and "useless things."

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Miz Goodall says when she began working in Tanzania, there were between one and two million chimps in the wild.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

His eye met hers as she sat there, paler and whiter than anyone in the large ocean of tense faces around her.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

For her the idea that birds have come from dinosaurs is just common knowledge and there's nothing surprising in that at all."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

She says many students are sleepy and unable to pay attention in class because there is not enough food for them at home.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

One of the men turned to another and ordered: "Go in there,Stumpy,and see what you can do."

VOA: special.2009.06.06

In some areas there, monkeys play in the tops of mangroves thirty meters tall and dolphins swim in the waters of mangrove forests.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

And there was a new government in Britain. Its foreign minister, Lord Aberdeen, also wanted peace.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

The problems came as news of the revolutions in the Arab world filled the Internet and there were online calls for protests in China.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

And,there are sunny California vampires like in the former American television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

VOA: special.2010.01.20

There was a sweetness and softness in the woman's expression that I had never seen before.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud,and was buried.

VOA: special.2010.04.08