Today we present the second of two programs about contemporary classical music written by composers working in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

They will earn extra points in the Race to the Top if they approve the standards by August second.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Opposition Republican leaders agree on the need to raise the borrowing limit by August second or risk the nation's first default.

VOA: special.2011.07.15

He had so totally given himself to scientific studies that he could not be weakened by a second love.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

They came from a home built by the Assyrian ruler Sargon the Second in modern day Iraq.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

This has been the second part of the story "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burrows.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

The final round was hosted by Alex Trebek, best known for hosting the television game show "Jeopardy!" Arjun Kandaswamy from Oregon won second place.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

The second part of the title is taken from a song by the Beastie Boys.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Killings by animals are the second largest cause of bird death in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

He says you can harvest parsley by cutting most of the plant, or leave more of the plant in the ground for a second crop.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

They were losing by as many as thirteen points in the second half.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

A second goal is for the number of malaria cases and deaths to be reduced by fifty percent or more from the number reported in two thousand.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

This is the second novel by New York-based writer J.Courtney Sullivan.

VOA: special.2011.07.13

She was rejected by her father and his second wife.

VOA: special.2009.02.22