Shortly afterward, officials made public that the support troops would number up to 13,000, bringing the overall total to 68,000 by the end of the year a doubling of the deployment from when he took office.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

We reported last week that Helen Keller suffered from a strange sickness when she was only nineteen months old.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

It comes from earlier days when the Roman Catholic Church ruled that Catholics must not eat meat on Fridays.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

Farmers can start rotational grazing by removing animals from a pasture when the grass is eaten to less than 5 centimeters.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

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

"Mississippi Masala" was a nineteen ninety-one film about an ethnic Indian family exiled from Uganda when Idi Amin comes to power.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Doctor Spock's book did not receive much notice from the media when it was published in nineteen forty- six.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Farmers can start rotational grazing by removing animals from a pasture when the grass is eaten to less than five centimeters.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

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

That was down from last year, when more than three thousand walkers raised almost seven and a half million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

He's asleep beside the stove. When I came up from Rowe's I found him here, Huddled against the barndoor fast asleep...."

VOA: special.2011.04.17

When you get tired from all that walking, there are more than nine thousand benches where you can sit down.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

John Bachar was fifty-two years old when he fell from Dike Wall near his home in Mammoth Lakes,California.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

They say it will enable them to protect themselves from HIV infection when involved with sexual partners who refuse to wear condoms.

VOA: special.2010.07.21