He wanted to make sure parents knew they should have control over their children and expect cooperation from them.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Rockman imagines a terrible future in which plants and animals must be sent into space to protect them from Earth's pollution.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

The report says international law has failed to protect coral reefs and the tropical fish that live among them from collectors.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

This meant the Apollo Eight astronauts could fire the rocket that would send them from Earth orbit toward the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

On and on they marched. Many of them -- weak from hunger and tired beyond belief could go no farther.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Traditionally,the president does not fill federal jobs in a state until he discusses them with the senators from that state.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

And now that they're back on their feet,we expect extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild the economy."

VOA: special.2009.12.18

And while they eat the grass, they may need guard animals to protect them from animals that would like to eat them.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Americans know about them mainly from a history of use as pack animals in Arizona and other areas of the desert Southwest.

VOA: special.2010.02.16

The volunteers placed the plants about five centimeters into the soil to prevent rising and falling water levels from pulling them out.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

They landed in the Pacific Ocean, only six kilometers from the ship that waited to rescue them.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

It told about how mobs of white men had killed black men by hanging them from trees.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

He sent Northern forces to battle the slave-holding Southern states to keep them from leaving the Union.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

"I mean,I travel all over the world and have dozens of people that I meet every month and I get business cards from them.

VOA: special.2009.09.14