The collision of the Russian and American satellites was the first of its kind in over fifty years of space travel.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

He stared at the birthmark. And slowly,with every breath that came and went, it lost some of its brightness.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

The parent organization gives Gone Rural boMake at least twenty percent of its profits and helps with administrative costs.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Researcher Stephen Brusatte says scientists have believed that the physical qualities of Tyrannosaurus developed because of its large body.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

On January twenty-sixth, the company suspended sales of eight of its top-selling vehicles in the United States, its largest market.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

The United States had sent an astronaut of its own into space for the first time in nineteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

One of its official organizers in the United States is a Washington based nonprofit group called Earth Day Network.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

And,it was called The City of the Big Shoulders or City of Broad Shoulders because of its importance to the nation.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

American lawmakers have also long complained that China suppresses the value of the yuan to lower the price of its exports.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

The BP company pumped heavy drilling fluids,known as mud, into the top of its damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

The director of its Vaccine Research Center,Gary Nabel, says each antibody blocks the virus from attaching to white blood cells.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

The eastern state of Vermont is proud of its beautiful Green Mountains so it calls itself the Green Mountain State.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

In nineteen eighty-five, he led the congressional effort to order economic restrictions on South Africa because of its racial separation policy.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

However,the Orthodox Church in America says most of its members follow the revised Julian calendar and celebrate on December twenty-fifth.

VOA: special.2009.12.21