Michael Johnston is twenty-seven. He was first deployed to Iraq in two thousand three at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

He is a successful online player, but so far his biggest win in live tournament play was eighty-two thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center says the city's population is about seventy-seven percent of what it was before Katrina.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

She was famous for her beauty. Madame Pierre Gautreau is wearing a low-cut black dress that shows off her pale skin.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

The famous Furnace Creek Inn is a beautiful hotel that was built of stone more than seventy-five years ago.

VOA: special.2011.08.03

The Edison2 is an experimental car that was one of the winners of the ten-million-dollar Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize.

VOA: special.2010.11.17

He was forty-nine years old. Leprosy -- also called Hansen's disease is a bacterial disease that causes skin wounds and nerve damage.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

The name of that song is "Dang Me." It was written and recorded by Roger Miller in nineteen-sixty-five.

VOA: special.2010.10.03

An example is the story of a young man whose last name was spelled D-U-L-A but pronounced "Dooley."

VOA: special.2009.07.27

"Between nineteen eighty-eight and two thousand was when we really started implementing education campaigns about what consent is.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

He was a big star. Now he is fifty-seven and damaged by too much alcohol, too many cigarettes and not enough inner strength.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

He was born to a Canadian father and a mother who is part of the Dunne-za tribe.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

He is only the second African to win the prize since it was established in nineteen eighty-six.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

She was fabulous." Michael Claros-Saenz is a member of the United States military stationed in Okinawa,Japan.

VOA: special.2011.02.21