Each year,the Afghan Institute of Learning serves about three hundred fifty thousand women and children in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

VOA: special.2009.06.15

About thirteen million hectares of forest were cut down or lost through natural causes each year in the last ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

It was designed and completed in about a year and opened on the first day of the World's Fair.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

There are about one thousand new cases of fistula each year in Kenya and as many as one hundred thousand worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

About three thousand delegates from around China are in Beijing for this year's meeting of the National People's Congress.

VOA: special.2011.03.05

It is about a man who lives alone in a village from which everyone fled during Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

She decides to make every recipe in Child's best known cookbook in one year and write her own book about the experience.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

In about the year seven hundred fifty, the early Pueblo people began building square structures of large connected rooms,or pueblos, above ground.

VOA: special.2011.03.30

A study published in Stroke last year involved about two thousand people with an average age of sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Earlier this year, Tomohiko Hagino in Japan wrote to ask for information about a painful disease -- fibromyalgia.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

They say funding dropped from about nine hundred thirty million dollars in two thousand seven to eight hundred seventy million last year.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Malaria kills about two hundred thousand children in Africa every year, an average of one every thirty seconds.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

About a year ago, more than eighty children in Nigeria died after being given medicine for teething pain.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

But if you live in the United States and want to see real fireworks, the best time of the year is about now.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

In eighteen fifty, President Zachary Taylor died after serving about a year and a half in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.16