Ethan Holtzman says his band attempts to shine a light on this fact to help make sure such a situation never happens again.

VOA: special.2011.05.06

The situation is made worse by the fact that its ancient buildings, built on a body of water called a lagoon, are slowly sinking.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

"The fact is the situation is grim,". "The fact is that the Taliban have made enormous inroads into the country.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

"Our view is we're going to get the events off, but we felt that we were not prepared to create a situation that, in fact,could begin to encroach on the field of play."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

He says the Obama administration's "It's a presumption that these are obstacles to cooperation, which in fact I think China has enough of their own interests and equities in for example the economic situation to cooperate irrespective of what we do on some of these other issues,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.10