Let us look to a convention of states or other peaceable means to restore the Union."

VOA: special.2009.12.10

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VOA: special.2009.01.02

"Vaccination,which we tend to take for granted in countries like the United States or in Western Europe, in fact a lot of us don't even know which diseases we've been vaccinated against.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

"We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region or on us.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

that is no longer an option for us or for the rest of the world,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

It will be not like in Germany or Japan and Korea, but what we saw in the Continental Cup can make us confident of good organization,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Dietitians and health experts say understanding how important our food choices are, and learning a lesson or two from the world's healthiest nations, can help us live healthier,too.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

"Of course,you have the Palestinian-Israeli situation, plus the Saudi-Yemen problem, plus all kinds of bilateral issues, wars or bilateral conflicts, let us say,which could really lead into war in the future."

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

Charles Bolden, the head of the US space agency, NASA,and Lisa Jackson from the Environmental Protection Agency,or EPA, came to this Washington,DC middle school to encourage these youngsters to focus on math and science careers.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

The level of violence is up. I worry a great deal about the overarching impact of the global financial crisis on not just Afghanistan or Pakistan, but all of us in our ability to resource this in the future.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

"Agriculture,the military, the business community,industry, and service jobs all take about so it's really good for us because if one sector is a little bit slow or has a downturn, the other sectors can pull it out."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"I think there are many who realize that constantly imposing demands on the Iranians which they either have no intention or the capacity to fulfill for domestic political reasons has not gotten us very far over the last three or four years,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

"We are not changing our strategy, our strategy remains to achieve the goal of disrupting,dismantling and defeating al Qaida and its extremist allies, and denying them safe haven and the capacity to strike us here in London, or New York or anywhere else,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.12