Those chosen must come from poor families and must also face at least one barrier to getting a job.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The railroads made it possible to travel from one side of the country to the other in less than a week.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

The number of students taken to hospitals increased one and a half times from nineteen ninety-seven to two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

He showed a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's famous "Mona Lisa" painting to one hundred school children from poor city neighborhoods.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

He sentenced Brown to be hanged. One of Brown's supporters attempted to find a way to free Brown from jail.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

One is the long-distance transport of bees for pollination and the spread of bee diseases from one area to another.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

The Agriculture Department has a soybean germplasm collection, a collection of genetic material passed from one generation to the next.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

The two thousand-seven film "Away From Her" tells what happens to one marriage when a partner suffers from the disease.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

If I can be the one to save it from that danger, then my health and life are not important."

VOA: special.2009.03.19

The go-between sees to it that money is passed - often illegally - from one person to another.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Astronomers could not tell exactly where the moon would be from one night or day to the next.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

The event normally brings about three million Muslims from one hundred sixty countries to the city of Mecca.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

In that year, Congress debated a proposal to create two territories from one large area in the west.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

This way,they can observe changes in the structure of a deadly organism from one generation to the next.

VOA: special.2010.06.29