They are dangerous to breathe. And they are a big fire danger, causing many injuries and deaths each year.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

It was designed and completed in about a year and opened on the first day of the World's Fair.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Her works are played by orchestras and at music festivals around the world, and this year she won a Pulitzer Prize.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

The Defense Department chooses more than one hundred countries every year and invites them to nominate students to the academies.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

They are hoping to surround tornadoes in the second and final year of an international project known as VORTEX2.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

And every year on January nineteenth -- Poe's birthday -- people watch for a man dressed in black to appear.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

The Census Bureau says fifty-four percent of full time students at two- and four-year colleges last year were female.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

She decides to make every recipe in Child's best known cookbook in one year and write her own book about the experience.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

The Council of Graduate Schools says this followed an increase of six percent last year and nine percent the year before that.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Asthma affects more than seven million children each year and is considered one of the leading childhood illnesses.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

Iraq moved up two places this year and is now ranked fourth from the bottom, along with Sudan.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

He served as vice president for about a year and a half before the death of President Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

It brings foreign agricultural scientists to the United States each year and places them with American scientists.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Tyminski and his album are nominated for awards including Album of the Year, Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year.

VOA: special.2009.09.25