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

What may be more important to most Americans than religion among their fellow citizens is a government free of it.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

It is easy to find them by the long lines of children waiting to tell Santa what they want for Christmas.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

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

For example, the rate of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and Korea is now 3 times what it was 40 years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

It looks like what it is: a large, beautiful home built in the style of 16th century Italy.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

It is able to show scientists what an object is made of from great distances.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

So what might those be? Political scientist John McGlennon at the College of William and Mary in Virginia says it is too soon to know.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

A navigator needs to know what time it is on his ship and also the time at another place of known longitude -- at the very same moment.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

It also is probably what a number of reporters said earlier this month when they were permitted to see a machine that will be sent to the planet Mars.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

"What business is it of yours?"

VOA: special.2010.06.12

A navigator can know the latitude of his ship by observing the location of stars, where the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening, and what time of year it is.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

"Part of what makes this film so exciting is how close it is linked to our present and very near future.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09