Chocolate comes from cocoa beans, and more than half of those beans come from two countries in West Africa.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

The other schools in the top five were the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Purdue University in West Lafayette,Indiana.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

The workers made good progress on the project until they started working near Big Bend Mountain in West Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

Teachers at the writing center at Purdue University in West Lafayette,Indiana work with students to improve their writing.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

"There's a yield potential of maybe four thousand kilos, ten times what the average is in West Africa."

VOA: special.2010.10.19

In West Virginia in nineteen twelve, violence connected to a miners' strike led to her trial and conviction for conspiracy to murder.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

And the medicines for a cobra bite in the Philippines may not work for someone bitten by a similar snake in West Africa.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

A new study in West Africa shows how farm irrigation systems powered by the sun can produce more food and money for villagers.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Twenty-nine of them died in an explosion at an underground mine in West Virginia on April fifth,twenty-ten.

VOA: special.2011.07.01

In fact,D.C.health officials say infection rates in the nation's capital are higher than in West Africa.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Some researchers say people living in cities in West Africa may have suffered most of all.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Gebisa Ejeta was raised in a one-room hut in a rural village in west-central Ethiopia.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

"As one business student in West Africa put it, 'English is a lifeline.'" And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Mario Ritter.

VOA: special.2011.01.21

It still is popular with people who live in West Virginia and visitors who have fallen in love with what is known as the Mountain State.

VOA: special.2009.07.20