The Obamas also ate at Spiaggia, an Italian restaurant famous for its food and its view of Lake Michigan.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

The government says the United States economy shrank at an annual rate of one percent in April,May and June.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

And one that is moving continues to move at an unchanging speed, so long as no outside force influences it.

VOA: special.2011.06.01

He faced winds blowing more than one hundred twenty kilometers an hour, and ocean waves at least twenty meters high.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

They have an opening at the bottom for the fire and a place on top to put a pot.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

If you use an alcohol-based product instead of soap and water, make sure it contains at least sixty percent alcohol.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

And at the Malaria Institute at Macha in Zambia, researchers are developing an easier way to identify malaria.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

It is because of his work that the wild forest at Biltmore has an ordered and peaceful look.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

She attended Columbia University at night and received an advanced degree in early childhood education in nineteen fifty-two.

VOA: special.2011.03.20

The next day, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and supporter of the defeated Confederacy, shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

On Friday, at an airport in Vienna,Austria, an American plane and a Russian plane landed, parked side by side and exchanged occupants.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Kim Bertrand at the Harvard School of Public Health is an epidemiologist -- someone who studies the spread and control of diseases.

VOA: special.2011.04.28

They must be at least twenty-five years old, an American citizen for at least seven years and live in the state they represent.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

She went on to become an English teacher, librarian and girls' basketball coach at Jay Allen High School in High Point, North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.03.29