He was honored first as a member of the Yardbirds, then with Cream, then as a solo performer in two thousand.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

She wanted to explore her husband's Latino roots as a family project, as a way to teach their young daughter.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

In many areas of fast-flowing water, a boat could be turned over by a wave as high as a house.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

Yet insurance usually costs too much for a farmer with as little as a hectare or two of land.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

What better way is there to sell a car than to say it is as fast as a wildcat.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

Many colleges and employers will accept what is known as a GED as the equivalent of a high school diploma.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

She takes a job as a babysitter for a woman and her husband who have adopted a child of mixed race.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Now,there came to my ears a low,dull,quick sound, such as a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Rickey thought Jackie Robinson was good enough as a player and strong enough as a person to succeed.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

It tells the story of a German woman who served as a guard at a Nazi death camp during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

While there, he volunteered as a music teacher at a youth center in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.

VOA: special.2010.11.04

She wanted to make sure she would be judged as a singer who happened to be black - not as a black singer.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

Anders Wilhelmson says the sanitation process can take as little as a couple of hours or as long as two to four weeks.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

As a plant scientist, he may have saved more lives than anyone else in history as many as a billion, by some estimates.

VOA: special.2009.09.22