Aides to President-elect Barack Obama have been negotiating with Congress on a 2-year recovery plan for the world's largest economy.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

And it said this week that final results will likely show two thousand nine was the fifth-warmest year on record.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

And every year on January nineteenth -- Poe's birthday -- people watch for a man dressed in black to appear.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

The fifty-nine year old Watson needed to make a short attempt on his final hole to win the British Open.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Each year thousands of people visit the museum and go on board the submarine that made history -- the U.S.S.Nautilus.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Many people who work in fishing part of the year also depend on well-paid jobs in offshore energy.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

If confirmed by the Senate, the fifty-year-old Kagan would be the youngest justice on the current Supreme Court.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

She won a four-year college scholarship, the top prize nationally in a public speaking contest on the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

On December first, nineteen fifty-five, in the southern city of Montgomery,Alabama, a forty-two year old black woman got on a city bus.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The New York Times newspaper reports that,on average, people experience feelings of loneliness about forty-eight days a year.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

The association's market research shows that Americans spent more than forty-three billion dollars on pets,pet products and pet medical care last year.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

During an on-crop year, growers often treat the fruit so it can stay on the tree longer.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

But the thirty-four year old actor has taken on an important role in real life as well.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

The findings suggest that thinning during the on-crop year can increase the value of off-year pecan crops.

VOA: special.2009.11.10