The bill,known as the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, would have the government buy four-and-one-half-million ounces of silver each month.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

In the United States, the legal age to drink alcohol is twenty-one -- one of the highest in the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

Helen was their first child. Until she was a year-and-one-half old, Helen Keller was just like any other child.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls age fifteen to nineteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

It was one of eleven scientific devices carried by the Chandrayaan-One spacecraft of the Indian Space Research Organization.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

The official returned with a treaty giving the Dominican Republic to the United States for one-and-one-half-million dollars.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Data collected from one hundred fifty-one countries show that about seven percent of young girls now smoke.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

The twenty-one year-old throws a sharp breaking ball that cuts across the plate at the last second.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

The latest one shows that seventy-one million homes in the United States last year included a pet.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

"The maternal stress that is felt, that stress hormone -- one of them is called cortisol -- can actually leach into the womb.

VOA: special.2011.08.10

He acted in thirty-one movies. In nineteen fifty-eight, just as he finished making the movie "King Creole."

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Researchers estimated how many mothers died during or soon after childbirth in one hundred eighty-one countries.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

The study estimated mortality rates for people age fifteen to fifty-nine in one hundred eighty-seven countries.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Michael had been the number one name for thirty-eight years, from nineteen sixty-one to nineteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.07.06