A reputation -- what people think of you, good or bad -- is built one message at a time.

VOA: special.2011.07.22

But in the western United States, there are highways where the speed limit is one hundred twenty-five kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

In the United States, the legal age to drink alcohol is twenty-one -- one of the highest in the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

But as one doctor advises her patients, becoming a non-smoker is one way to gain control of your life.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

But in cases with a known cause the experts say salmonella is responsible for more than one-third of hospitalizations.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

And they got meaningful on-the-job training for what is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing careers of the future.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

One is the long-distance transport of bees for pollination and the spread of bee diseases from one area to another.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

A low-fat diet is one in which less than thirty percent of a person's daily calorie intake comes from fat.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

And something did. The following winter, the winter of eighteen fifty-one, is still remembered for the heavy snows in the mountains.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

One of these is deep-six. It means to hide something or put it where it will not be found.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

The go-between sees to it that money is passed - often illegally - from one person to another.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

The IdeaPad U-One Hybrid is a notebook computer, which has a removable screen that becomes a digital tablet.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

The extension service says the best formation happens when the soil is between fifteen and twenty-one degrees Celsius.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

The United States is one of twenty-five countries where farmers planted genetically engineered crops in two thousand nine.

VOA: special.2010.04.27