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 I.M.F.predicts developing economies will continue to grow for the year, but only by about one and one-half percent.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

More than one-fourth of the four million newborns who die each year around the world were born too early.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

A study in the United States found that eighty-four percent of undergraduates last year had at least one credit card.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

The report estimates that there may be an additional one hundred million people with asthma by the year two thousand twenty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

But records from eighteen fifty-eight show that as many as one thousand eight hundred wagons made the trip that year.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

At the start of this year there were two hundred thirteen thousand cases of leprosy reported in one hundred twenty-one countries.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

All fifty states require at least one year of hospital work for doctors-in-training educated at medical schools in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

But,as Faith Lapidus reports, the Census Bureau says more than one million women in America were stay-at-home mothers last year.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

The foundation says ninety-five percent are accepted into a university graduate program within one year of getting a fellowship.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

The Treasury says it expects banks to repay one hundred seventy-five billion dollars of TARP money this year.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

"Probably,for a one-hundred-fifty-thousand-dollar- a-year employee it would cost me in the range of ten to fifteen thousand dollars."

VOA: special.2011.05.13

Researchers in the United States studied one hundred thousand women during an eight-year period, beginning in nineteen ninety-four.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

They said the overall strength of storms measured by wind speed might increase two to eleven percent by the year twenty-one hundred.

VOA: special.2010.08.24