At sixty degrees below zero, a man with wet feet must not fail in his first attempt to build a fire.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

G.M.has until June first to offer a plan to the government if it is to receive new government loans.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

But first we go to a sports bar in Washington for the final game of this year's National Basketball Association championship.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

He says a new system is needed to meet the speed and complexity of a twenty-first century global economy.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

In the nineteen forties, she was the first black woman to sign a long-term agreement with a major Hollywood movie studio.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

Monsanto expects to be ready in a few years to market its first corn seeds genetically engineered to resist drought.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

The Obama administration has launched the first in a series of projects to support entrepreneurs in Muslim communities worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

When last heard from, Amelia Earhart was seeking to become the first female pilot to fly a plane around the world.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

He had just become the first person to fly a plane alone across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

George Carmack,Skookum Jim Mason and Dawson Charlie were the first men to discover a great amount of gold in the Klondike.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Marie Curie became the first person to be awarded a second Nobel Prize in nineteen eleven, this time in chemistry.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

George Washington was the first president to place his hand on a Christian Bible when taking the oath of office.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

People who might want to consider taking aspirin as a preventative measure should first talk to a doctor.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

The first park to charge a visitor fee was Mount Rainier in the northwestern state of Washington in nineteen hundred and eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.28