"Star Wars" director George Lucas got his start at the U.S.C.film school.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Fierce fighting is expected in the coming months, when the U.S.and its allies start an offensive in Kandahar province, the Taliban's birthplace.

VOA: standard.2010.05.22

"Let's start with the false claim that illegal immigrants will get health insurance under reform,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

Hanle says the focus is on offering special programs for teachers at middle schools and high schools because that's when the students start to lose interest in studying science.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

There's no denying the festival's grown a bit since its start.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Jakarta's water problems start with poor infrastructure that allows human waste and rubbish to contaminate supplies that travel roughly 80 kilometers from the hills where Jakarta's main reservoir is located.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Australia's defenses against the outbreak of the H1N1 virus will be boosted when mass flu vaccinations start next month after officials fast-tracked a scheme capable of covering it's entire population of 21 million people.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

We are going to get there the day before the games start two days before. And it's all about building, and getting better every game and that is how the team is going to win.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

Officials in Georgia say troops at a tank battalion at the Mukhrovani base about 30 kilometers from Tbilisi staged a rebellion aimed at overthrowing the government and also disrupting Wednesday's start of NATO military exercises in the republic.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

The new testing and counseling campaign will start at a single location in each of South Africa's nine provinces this month.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

A college or university's international student office is a good place to start getting to know the school and the country.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

It is the story of Joseph Sutpen, who wants to start a famous Southern family after America's Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

"Writing's something I've always done. My imagination kind of turned into words, and I'd start putting those words on a page."

VOA: special.2010.04.05

It's pretty much the same thing. In writing, you have a blank page for you to start with.

VOA: special.2011.08.08