A list of American colleges and universities that offer financial aid to foreign students can be found at edupass.org -- e-d-u-p-a-s-s dot o-r-g.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Greece's debt could reach one hundred twenty percent of its G.D.P.this year.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

Senator Claire McCaskill described synthetic C.D.O.s during a Senate subcommittee hearing.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

"What's very interesting about vitamin D is that it's involved all throughout the body, and it's involved on a local level, so you can have vitamin D active in the breasts, in the prostate,in the colon, and it's thought that the locally-acting vitamin D is helping to protect the body against these cancers, regulating how cells grow and how cells die."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

This week: We play music by Somali-born hip-hop artist K'naan, And answer a listener question about the nation's capital,Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Barbara Klein has more. The museum at Ford's Theatre was created to show Abraham Lincoln's life, and death,in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Here is part of it. "I used to try on Mommy's jeans, just to see how they'd fit on me.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Washington,D.C. is the country's capital but it is a city,not a state, so it does not have its own star.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

That was part of a speech that first lady Michelle Obama gave at George Washington University's graduation ceremony in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Basically,it's like lip synching with a guitar." Lance "The Shred" Kasten from Washington,D.C.,made it to the final round of competition.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Last December, the Australia-based company Invetech reported that it had delivered the world's first production model 3-D bio-printer for Organovo.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington,D.C., has one of the oldest known pairs of Levi's jeans in its collection.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Many voters were dissatisfied with the L.D.P.and its reaction to Japan's worst recession since the Second World War.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

It struck the Lady Elgin. But the Augusta's Captain D.M.Malott continued on to Chicago, failing to help victims on the passenger boat.

VOA: special.2009.11.11