This week, we report about poetry and jazz because April is a special month for both arts in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Working in such a laundry was known as the eight-pound livelihood because a person had to lift an iron weighing almost four kilograms all day.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Just because a plant looks nice does not mean you should eat it.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

The state seceded because a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, had been elected president.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

For example, you want to buy a new car, because the old one has some problems But your wife throws cold water on the idea, because a computer costs too much.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

"I think a film like this can make a difference by raising people's awareness of not only the problems that are out there, because a lot of films are gloom and doom, but solutions that are out there.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

It would be embarrassing,I think," . "I would be objecting to that because at a certain point security begins to get into your personal life,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Analysts like Tilford and Subacchi believe European governments will ultimately come to Athens's financial rescue - because a Greek crisis may soon become a European one.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

He says security forces where being extremely careful in launching the final raid because a suicide bomber was guarding the hostages in a corner of the building.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

People often become donors because a loved one needs a kidney.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

"There's a buoyancy in prison now, it sounds like an oxymoron, but there's a buoyancy in prison now because a lot of people have a stake in helping our war wounded."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

He said he acted because a court case was expected to force the release of the documents anyway and because much of the secret information had already been leaked to the news media.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

Developing agriculture in Africa has become even more urgent since the United Nations warned in a report earlier this month that governments must increase investment in agriculture because a billion people around the world are going hungry in sub-Saharan Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20