Now,Shirley Griffith and Steve Ember tell us all about Cape May as the city celebrates its four hundredth anniversary this year.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Come with us now as we join the millions of people every year who explore the Vatican Museums.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

Barbara Klein tells us more about this talented nineteen year old woman from Portland,Oregon.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

"Last year,one of our staff members actually brought his own guitar and amplifier and led us in several rounds of song, Christmas songs and holiday songs.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

Shirley Griffith tells us about some of the best movies of last year.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Mario Ritter tells us about several of this year's famous graduation speakers.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

We wish you all happiness and good fortune in the New Year, and hope will join us again next time for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

An actress who plays thirteen-year-old Victoria Confino welcomes us.

VOA: special.2010.08.25

"The first year there were twenty-seven of us.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

Most of that is coming from Vietnam. The highest year that the US shipped rice, over these last 10 years,was in 2004;

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

"Well,to all of us it's very important.." "We have about 2,000 people in attendance each year.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

... Twenty-six year-old Louis Jacques Franto told us if the government wants to move us that is fine, as long as it is safe.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Max is a 10-year old boy with autism. Recently,his mother called on US lawmakers to allocate more funds to find the cause and a cure.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

"This year it is very important for us to in a consensus, we decide together, not to look for war and not to repeat the bad experience we had during these last 10 years,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

This is the time of year when we see usually an effort by the insurgents to knock us of course and to try and attack the coalition and indeed the government of Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

"Additional forces will begin to deploy shortly,". "And by this time next year, new security gains will be illuminated by specific indicators and it will be clear to us that the insurgency has lost the momentum.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

In fact,U.S.and NATO military commanders say insurgent violence rose nearly 60 percent between the first six months of this year, compared to last year the highest level of violence since 2001 when the Taliban government was ousted by US.led forces.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

"And you know, with us doing that we got back to this point and got past where we were last year and we are happy to be able to compete for a national championship on Monday night."

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

All of us have a goal for next year to have a house,a car,finish a job, get into university, open a business, have a company,we always have a goal, and in this fair of the wishes, they can get a little piece of that dream,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

But the overall campaign is on track." "I believe that by the end of this year we will be able to demonstrate that we have the initiative and the momentum is with us, the government of Afghanistan and the government's international partners."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

But an even more astounding result for us from this survey, which encompassed 1,000 adults a random telephone survey in January of this year, was that over 800 of the respondents - that's over four out of five people - say they are still buying green products, still buying green products in a very severe recession."

VOA: standard.2009.03.30