Today environmental groups are fighting proposals to open protected areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards are open to students around the world in grades seven through twelve.

VOA: special.2011.05.27

They are said to use forty to fifty percent less wood than an open fire, and produce fifty to seventy-five percent less smoke.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

But visitors are welcome in small stores that are around the large open plaza areas.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Like in Edinburgh, these events are open to any artists who want to perform.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Two major caves are open to the public near Smoke Hole and Seneca Rocks.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

These are usually in areas with little traffic but lots of open country.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

In most museums, storage areas are not open to the public.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

These collections are open to the public.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

"No way,Jose.Many banks are open on Saturdays."

VOA: special.2010.02.07

Only sixty-five are open to the public.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

The Germans,by a remarkable combination of air bombing and heavily armored tanks, have broken through the French defenses north of the Maginot Line, and strong columns of their armored vehicles are ravaging the open country, which for the first day or two was without defenders.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

He said other goals are to re-establish democracy and create a government that is open to all political tendencies.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

"I can imagine that President Mubarak and Egypt are embarrassed now because there is international pressure now to open borders.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01