Most of the stories were short. There was heavy use of color and images and things like opinion polls.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

His theory was that Martians were trying to bring water to the warm areas near the equator of the planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

He said the first great fact was that laws were not necessary to keep slavery out of California and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Supplies were very low. There was not enough food to eat, no shoes to wear, and little left to fight with.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

"And the box was open and there were probably about five or six of these little round, yummy-smelling warm doughnuts in there.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Others disagreed. In any case, it was not a good time to argue it was the Great Depression, and times were difficult.

VOA: special.2009.12.29

He had a plan,he said. And he would not move until he was sure his men were ready.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

At first I thought the city was empty. The buildings all were empty and in poor repair.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

But this army was not trained. His soldiers were civilians who knew nothing about fighting a war.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

And some patients were told that the pain was not real, that they were just imagining it or that that they had mental problems.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

The idea that dinosaurs and birds were somehow related first was reported in the nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

The other side of the picture was that many people were fat and some of these belonged to the poorest section of that slum."

VOA: special.2010.05.12

He and other refugee scientists were worried that Germany was working to develop an atomic bomb.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Their economy was destroyed. In many areas, there was little food and the people were hungry.

VOA: special.2010.01.14