One reason is that heat from the sun can go through many of the building materials commonly found in cities.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

But first we go to a sports bar in Washington for the final game of this year's National Basketball Association championship.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

About eight hundred fifty sailboats and powerboats come and go from the marina at King Harbor in the city of Redondo Beach.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

"I feel pain in my heart. I cannot go back because of what they did to me.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

One of the men turned to another and ordered: "Go in there,Stumpy,and see what you can do."

VOA: special.2009.06.06

Would it not be better for him to die quickly, and go to wait for her in that blessed place of the future?

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Using it could make the most sense in areas where farmers grow lots of rice and the hulls might just go to waste.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

A tapestry is a special kind of weaving method in which the weft does not go continuously through the whole width of the fabric.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

Some of the money raised in the telethon will go to Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti Foundation.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

Today we go to New York City to visit the Museum of Chinese in America.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

But we need to continue to not lose sight of where we need to go to increase opportunities for people to get employed in new jobs."

VOA: special.2011.04.08

She says being a mom is hard. "Because you have to get up every two hours in the middle of the night, and you can't go out and say 'I am going to buy this for myself.'

VOA: special.2010.05.13

And Alan Lomax had somevery compelling and really engaging stories to tell about actually painting himself up in blackface so that he could go into black communities, so that some of the whites wouldn't single him out and beat him up or whatever."

VOA: special.2010.01.18

"It's definitely a relief to us who lives in here because of what's happening, when everything is over we will be able to go back to Haiti without worry, with knowing OK, without nothing bad happening, we'll feel like we're safe over there and then come again back to America safely."

VOA: special.2010.02.01