September fifteenth was chosen as the starting date because it is the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

Yet up at about five-thousand-four hundred meters the air pressure is only about half of what it is on the ground.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

It is the story of a black woman's search for happiness and her true identity, during twenty-five years and three marriages.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

No such thing. It is to heal one of the five and to leave the other four to bleed more than ever."

VOA: special.2009.04.09

It is a nationwide program that connects people over age fifty-five with elementary school students from low-income families.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

The potato genome is not yet final but it shows the order of ninety-five percent of the genes.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

The name of that song is "Dang Me." It was written and recorded by Roger Miller in nineteen-sixty-five.

VOA: special.2010.10.03

He is working to develop disease-resistant plants, but he says it will probably take five years.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

It is about one thousand five hundred meters high, the highest mountain in the state.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

It is over twenty-five kilometers high and the largest known volcano in the solar system.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

SECOND GIRL: "I chose this school because it's in the city and it's really great and the communication school is actually,I think, ranked in the top five?"

VOA: special.2009.02.26

It is broadcast in one hundred seventy countries in twenty-five languages.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Today,it is about fifty-six kilometers long by twenty-five kilometers wide.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

It is only about one hundred fifty-five square kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

It took me five Olympics just to get a bronze, and here he is in his second with a gold."

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

"It is unfair because he has done nothing wrong." The five men face life in prison and are expected to be sentenced in December.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17