Scientists know that some of the Bristlecone pines in northern California are also more than four thousand years old.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Four years ago, the labor agency estimated that more than twelve million people were in some form of forced labor.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

In some cases, the resulting paths of damage can stretch more than a kilometer wide and eighty kilometers long.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

In some areas of Uganda, rates of brown streak reached more than eighty-five percent in two thousand five and two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

It believed some of the nations involved would use the Boxer Rebellion as a way to gain more control over Chinese territory.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Yet he says this message is often more scary for people than the idea that leprosy is some sort of spiritual punishment.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Some are still being treated for the emotional trauma of being trapped more than half a kilometer underground.

VOA: special.2011.08.12

These programs, along with natural expansion of forests in some areas, have added more than seven million hectares of new forests each year.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Greg Ogden would agree with that. "I think probably some of the nicest ones, the more memorable ones are back when I was a teenager.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Some critics think Mark Twain's later works were more serious because of his sadness.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Reporters often wrote stories about her, some of which were more true than others.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

But some people worry much more than others about being the target of laughter.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

In some of the more affluent countries, corruption may be a major problem.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Some critics said, "Count Buffon is more of a poet than a scientist."

VOA: special.2010.08.08