It gave the United States nearly all of what is today the states of California, Nevada,Utah,Arizona,Colorado and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

What a courtyard does in a traditional Chinese house is really it connects all the rooms. Maya Lin is a Chinese-American building designer and artist.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

"What next? Will the government pursue anything else or is it all going to stop right now?

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

"It should be clear understandable what they are doing, why they are doing it, and what all their decisions are based on.This is one.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

She says,"The theme of this album is finding what's true about you and your life, and defending it and valuing it above all else.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

We have had so much fun and it is really a great experience." And that's what the Boy Scout National Jamboree is all about - fun.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

And,what the green economy is, it's an alternative that doesn't do all that."

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

"You had a very good feeling for what it was you were all trying to do together and I think that is a sign of a particularly good leader."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

The foreign minister says the danger in what he calls that "misinformation" is that it brings all sorts of organizations to say that he has been imprisoned on ideological reasons.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

"Greeks just simply do not know what the next day will spell for them, what this EU-IMF rescue package is all about, what it will actually mean for their pockets."

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

"He possesses a quality that I value in all my advisors: a willingness to tell leaders what we need to know, even if it is not what we want to hear."

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

"You know you can send all the envoys in the world, you can listen, you can encourage, but I understand all the priorities that he has tugging at him, but I think that that is what it is going to take."

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

"What's very interesting about vitamin D is that it's involved all throughout the body, and it's involved on a local level, so you can have vitamin D active in the breasts, in the prostate,in the colon, and it's thought that the locally-acting vitamin D is helping to protect the body against these cancers, regulating how cells grow and how cells die."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28