But alcohol is banned in first-year dorms -- where most students are under twenty-one anyway.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

For example,in first grade, students should be asking and answering questions about something they read.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

Right now, Jeff Gordon is in first place in the Sprint Cup series.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

Malaria,diarrhea,and typhoid- water-related diseases that are not fatal in First World countries- cause half of the child deaths in Yemen.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

"It's not a competition. It's not a sports event. There's no pistol going off and we all run and the guy who does it under 10 seconds comes in first.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

In his first one hundred days in office, President Roosevelt worked with Congress to pass a series of measures.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

Disease-control experts from the United States confirmed the first cases of cholera in Haiti on October twenty-first in the Artibonite area.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

In the first season of the show, Sookie's friends are not very happy that she is interested in a vampire.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

It might help some get into a top college, but only if they have above-average scores in the first place.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

The Federal Housing Finance Agency said home prices fell seven percent in the first three months of the year.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Many of the songs in his first two albums were about political and cultural problems during the nineteen nineties.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

One hundred eighty thousand copies of "Main Street" were sold in the first six months after it was published.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

The research company IDC says fifty-five million smartphones were sold worldwide in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

Still,with all these difficulties, ten-thousand troops made it to Washington in the first few weeks of the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.20