Some Americans had trouble understanding the economic reason why food had to be destroyed so people could have enough to eat.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

California's finances have become so bad, this month the state began to buy goods and services with promises to pay later.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

They wanted new states to be free from slavery, so they would not have to compete with slave labor.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Professor Nyokong says she wants to support young women in science so they do not have to experience this.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

But some farmers have used so much glyphosate that a number of kinds of weeds can now resist it.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

American officials so far have released about twelve million treatments of Tamiflu and sent them to the states.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

She has been able to send her children to school so that they can have a better life.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

"So we have huge programs that came from this one research project about one football sized rock."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Professor Mullins advises entrepreneurs to do market tests so they have real numbers to support their claims.

VOA: special.2009.06.26

So we have to have some trust that people will do what we tell them to do."

VOA: special.2009.08.31

So they do not have stars,either. Some of the territories, like Puerto Rico and Guam, may vote to become states in the future.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

But most like to work part time so they have more time to spend with their children.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

I curate the Antarctic meteorite collection at the museum, so we have about nineteen thousand six hundred seventy-five to be, you know,really vague."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

"And so you have come to take a closer look at my father's rare collection."

VOA: special.2009.05.30