But first,Mister Venter said, they had to de-activate a gene in the receiving cell that would have killed the synthetic genome.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

In cycling,American Lance Armstrong announced he will return to the Tour de France next year with a new American-based team.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Edward Roybal,Kika de la Garza and Baltasar Corrada wanted to help prepare young Hispanics to become future leaders.

VOA: special.2010.09.13

(JIMMY BUFFETT - "VOLCANO") The first European to see the Florida Keys was Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon in the year fifteen-thirteen.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

In the eighteen eighties, Ferdinand de Lesseps -- builder of the Suez Canal -- formed a French company to build a waterway across Panama.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

All two hundred twenty-eight people on the flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris were killed.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

The queen of France,Marie de Medici, hired him to create a series of twenty-four paintings.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

De Lesseps spent three hundred million dollars to build just one-third of the canal.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Felix de Weldon wanted to make sure he had them correct.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

It took Felix de Weldon nine years to complete the statue.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

If you get a chance to see a red sunset over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico, you will know why that southwestern state is called The Land of Enchantment.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

But Mr.Micheletti's de facto government has refused to consider any deal that would allow Mr.Zelaya to return to power.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

De Boer told journalists that nations were waiting to see what position the United States would take in the talks.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28