The Voice of America invites you to listen next week at the same time for another American story in Special English.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

For the first time, Americans will be required to have health insurance or face a yearly fine starting in four years.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Share-cropping made it possible for blacks to work the land for themselves for the first time in their lives.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Borman and Lovell proved that humans could survive in space for the time needed to get to the moon and back.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

George Gershwin agreed to compose something for the concert before he realized how little time he had to do it.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

When it was almost time for the sun to rise, she quietly left her house and hurried through the forest.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

They did so because it was illegal at the time for people of different races to marry in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

The program is meant to help prisoners develop work skills for the time after they serve their sentences.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

In the United States, many people are also giving their time and energy to collect money and goods for the earthquake victims.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

The vehicle is helping scientists to see for the first time huge areas underneath the lake that were otherwise impossible to explore.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

"But from where we stand, for the very first time, we are beginning to see glimmers of hope."

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Finally,late in the summer of eighteen sixty-two, British leaders said the time had come for them to intervene.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

The former football player and coach brought his excitement and love for the sport to television viewers every time he announced a game.

VOA: special.2009.05.01