Millions of immigrants coming to America passed the statue as ships carried them to the immigration processing center on Ellis Island.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Emily Pidgeon says one way to help developing countries value mangroves is to see them as something that provides many services.

VOA: special.2011.05.10

It urged them to form "as quickly as possible, a government that is inclusive and represents the will of the Iraqi people."

VOA: special.2010.08.07

They were big,rough fellows. They had chosen me as the only 'Dutchman' -- as they called me -- to make them laugh.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

As the cattle were brought in, the young animals were branded -- marked to show who owned them.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

You maneuver yourself around the classroom and enable the children to learn as opposed to telling them."

VOA: special.2011.03.10

These people were found guilty of crimes that require them to be publicly listed as sex offenders.

VOA: special.2009.02.18

They were forced to withdraw. The Confederates moved slowly, then more quickly as Union troops chased them.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

As I handed them to him, I noticed that one had been torn in half and fixed with a piece of blue paper.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

As the women worked, old Koskoosh could hear his sons voice drive them to work faster.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

The critic Malcolm Cowley says, "Others might say that Faulkner was not so much writing stories for the public as telling them to himself.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

They wanted to help, even though many of them were as poor as the Anderson family.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

He spread his hands out to them as if he were giving them a blessing.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

Remove any branches growing in the same space as the branches next to them.

VOA: special.2009.10.06