The orders came just two days after Mr. Obama was sworn-in as president in front of the largest crowd ever in Washington, D.C.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Population estimates from two thousand seven show more than five hundred eighty-eight thousand people living within D.C.borders.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Walking tops the list. A two thousand six report from the C.D.C.found that more than seventy-nine million Americans walk to stay physically fit.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

The storm gave two airports in the Washington,D.C.area their highest one-day snowfall totals for December.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The latest 3-D TVs work by dividing picture images in two,one for each eye.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

The D.P.J.won almost two-thirds of the seats in lower house elections last Sunday.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

In nineteen seventy-two, the federal government banned most uses of the insecticide D.D.T.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

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VOA: special.2009.04.24

Mr.Obama's June 4 speech in the Egyptian capital will take place as part of a trip that will include visits to Germany and France to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy during World War Two.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09