Mohammed Bah Abba personally financed the first five thousand pot-in-pot systems for his own community and five villages nearby.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

For three years, al-Shabab has led militants in battles -- mostly against the peacekeepers -- for control of Mogadishu.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

But the oil is processed and exported -- at least for now -- from Port Sudan in the north.

VOA: special.2011.01.08

All fifty states require at least one year of hospital work for doctors-in-training educated at medical schools in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

The study found there is strong support for restricting work by doctors-in-training to sixteen or fewer hours at one time.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

At the White House, a reorganization has begun, in part to prepare for Mr.Obama's re-election campaign in two thousand twelve.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

meaning killed. The Random House Historical Dictionary of Slang provides a possible explanation for the use of eighty-six in restaurants.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

The carmaker plans to do this by offering company stock in exchange for twenty-seven billion dollars in G.M.bonds.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

There are also green card qualifiers for some non-citizens who invest in America, for refugees and asylum seekers.

VOA: special.2011.05.20

This opera was first performed in nineteen forty-two at a center for Jewish children without parents in Prague,Czechoslovakia.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

The study examined employment records for eight cities in Minnesota for a three-year period through two thousand six.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

But a government program that paid Americans to trade in old vehicles for new, fuel-saving models increased car sales in the summer.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Her "Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir" and her collection "Next: New Poems" were both nominated for Pulitzer Prizes in nineteen eighty-seven.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

That it was necessary to stop - for a while - all payments in gold or silver.

VOA: special.2009.01.01