But they reflect the Obama administration's commitment to a new approach to development -- one based on investment,not aid.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Seventy-one bird species have disappeared forever since people first arrived on the Hawaiian Islands one thousand seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

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

Post would fly the plane. On June twenty-third,nineteen thirty-one, Post and Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field in New York.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

He began to work on one of his long-time dreams - opening a sports center for the young people of San Juan.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, launched Columbia from Kennedy Space Center on April twelfth nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

He offered ten thousand dollars to anyone willing to follow him on a one-day climb without a rope.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

The book entered The New York Times Best Sellers list at the number one position on September twenty-fifth.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

So the voting continued. Finally,on the forty-seventh ballot, support began to increase for one of the minor candidates.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

For example, one American astronaut on a four-month long mission on the Russian space station Mir saw a vision of his dead father.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

He was a test pilot. He had flown earlier on one of the two-man Gemini space flights.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

He says that teenagers should set the volume control on their music players to somewhere between one-half and two-thirds the highest level,never louder.

VOA: special.2010.09.28

People across the state will work together on one hundred twenty-five local projects to clean trash, remove invasive plants and improve water areas.

VOA: special.2010.04.21