Think about growing cabbage if you live where the weather is cool and the soil is moist and fertile.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

The NASA team still is not sure how much of what they have found is water and how much is hydroxyl.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Lincoln told southerners: "You think slavery is right and should be extended, while we think it is wrong and should be limited.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

If someone is doing an extremely good job and is very successful, you might say he or she is batting one thousand.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

"This is obviously welcome news and an affirmation that this recession is abating and the steps we've taken have made a difference.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Manny is a wooly mammoth, Sid is a ground sloth and Diego is a smilodon or saber-toothed cat.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

The road is narrow and the traffic is often slow as it travels through each of the small towns of the Keys.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

They tell children not to be influenced by other people, but to learn on their own what is right and what is wrong.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

So separating the wheat from the chaff means keeping what is valuable and rejecting what is worthless.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

They meet with members of Congress and the Executive Branch and say "Here is what we found and here is what you should do."

VOA: special.2010.09.27

Carbon dioxide is released in cement manufacturing when fuel is burned and limestone is heated.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Picture a nervous penguin if the suit is black and the shirt is white.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Noah Lennox is Panda Bear. Brian Weitz is Geologist and Josh Dibb is Deakin.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

One is "The Hurt Locker." It is a tense and exciting movie about American soldiers in Iraq whose job is to find and safely destroy hidden explosive devices.

VOA: special.2010.01.01