They mourned greatly that one so young and fair, or so old and respected, should have died this way.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

That was the song "Discoverer." Like many R.E.M.songs, this one is poetic with a meaning that is not always clear.

VOA: special.2011.03.18

A new report by the I.M.F.estimates that the world economy will shrink by one and three-tenths percent this year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association, predicted that one area of strong sales this year will be mobile phones.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

Officials reported this week that the gross domestic product grew nine-tenths of one percent between April and June.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

This online service lets people send short messages that are no more than one hundred forty letters long.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

This group was one of about one thousand eight hundred musical acts that performed at the South by Southwest festival last month.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

But one difference this time is that many newspaper companies are heavily in debt from buying other newspapers.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

Still,this would only mean that there are community-level outbreaks in at least one other country in a different area of the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Rick Sharga from RealtyTrac says up to one-fourth of all homes that still have a mortgage loan balance are in this situation.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

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

VOA: special.2010.07.28

I knew that this was bigger than any one individual and I would have to do whatever I possibly could to control myself."

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Susan Bass says that this year's Earth Day will be a busy one in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

He said no one knew why this had happened, but there was nothing that could be done.

VOA: special.2010.07.31