There were new designs for the plane's rocket engine, landing equipment and the small rockets needed to move it in space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

I imagined there were still secrets in Nature that the limited power of my equipment prevented me from knowing.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

His unusual childhood and extraordinary actions tell about people who believed there were no limits to what they could do.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Miz Goodall says when she began working in Tanzania, there were between one and two million chimps in the wild.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

At the time that Miss Jordan left Congress, there were widespread reports that failing health was the cause for her decision.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

There were no great surprises that night because the winners of the awards had been announced three months earlier.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

In nineteen forty-five, there were not many jobs open to a black man, even someone who had attended college.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

He began to turn over in the air when his chute opened, and there were problems with the lines at first.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

But there were questions about why new restrictions on companies had excluded contracts dated before February eleventh,including those at A.I.G.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

"Why did you have to marry me when there were so many other girls to choose from?" she asked.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

At the start of this year there were two hundred thirteen thousand cases of leprosy reported in one hundred twenty-one countries.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

At that time there were laws in the South that required blacks to give their seats on buses to whites.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

The International Maritime Bureau reports there were one hundred eleven pirate attacks in waters near the Somali coast last year.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Lincoln admitted that, even if the dispute could be settled peacefully, there were those who wanted to see the Union destroyed.

VOA: special.2009.07.30