Now,late payments are growing. Almost three percent of commercial mortgages were reported at least ninety days late between April and June.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Rates of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and South Korea are now three times what they were forty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Mister Schroeder says that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are much higher now than they were in the past.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

The director says "Living in Emergency" is a story about how things are, not how you wish things were.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

Even victims who were not seriously hurt in the earthquake January twelfth are in need of the most basic supplies.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

The reason the ones at the Smithsonian are porcelain is they were having a show called "American Porcelain".

VOA: special.2009.09.09

The questions the play brings up are as fresh today as they were fifty years ago.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

African lions are also threatened by human expansion into areas that once were wild lion country.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

These are communities that once were successful but all the population moved to other places.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

Hip-hop artist Rick Fire says conditions are far better than they were twenty years ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

He said they were acting for the "equality that they are guaranteed by the Constitution."

VOA: special.2010.01.29

Still,there were more signs this week that Americans are feeling better about the economy.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Others are chosen for their smell. Still others were used traditionally for health reasons.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

They were as important as automobiles and airplanes are to the American economy today.

VOA: special.2010.02.25