a war that was costing the government three million dollars a day and the lives of the nation's young men.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

In nineteen eighty-seven, she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development to improve the lives of black children.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Though she never ran for office, she spent her life energetically working to improve the lives of people with developmental problems.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

A simple water pump is helping to improve the lives of poor families in several Asian and African countries.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

in nineteen thirty-five. It was a study of the lives of three New Guinea tribes from infancy to adulthood.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Others were not troubled. They had no way of finding out how terrible the lives of people were in Mulberry Bend.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

In nineteen eleven, a fire at a clothing factory in New York had taken the lives of one hundred forty-six people.

VOA: special.2010.09.06

Joseph Pulitzer bought the New York World in eighteen eighty-three and used it to improve the lives of workers and the poor.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Some mothers in Senegal are learning a new way to save the lives of babies born too soon.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Thousands were moving there. A government was needed to protect the lives and property of the new population.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

The crash also took the lives of the pilot and two other singers -- J.P.Richardson, known as the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

They said the church had a secret organization to take the lives and property of those who questioned the power of the church.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

And finding ways to help those voices,those songs, those stories, those craft traditions make it into the lives of a much broader public."

VOA: special.2010.01.25

May the spirit of peace in which we came be reflected in the lives of all mankind."

VOA: special.2009.07.29