It still is popular with people who live in West Virginia and visitors who have fallen in love with what is known as the Mountain State.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

This huge bird used to live along the West Coast of North America.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

They live above the Mountain Aquifer, which the Palestinians share with Israel and its settlements in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Nearly 300,000 Israelis live in the West Bank settlements, which are on lands captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab Israeli war.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

"that are against this move-are asking is this, 'How do we know that the Americans and the West are basically going to let the Russians live up to their promise of giving the uranium back?

VOA: standard.2009.10.28