Some parents take their children's birthday parties very seriously, even when the child is too young to fully understand the celebration.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

And when the pruning is done in August, the lambs -- well, you might not want to know this part.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

This might be hard to do when the teacher is writing on a board at the front of the classroom.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

Farmers can start rotational grazing by removing animals from a pasture when the grass is eaten to less than 5 centimeters.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

This is the day when many people will be going out on a date with someone special in their lives.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

When the water heater is working correctly, water will flow from the storage tank to the collector and back again.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

In time,they said, the moving ocean floor is blocked when it comes up against the edge of a continent.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Farmers can start rotational grazing by removing animals from a pasture when the grass is eaten to less than five centimeters.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Their central nervous system may tell the brain that there is pain even when there is no cause for the pain.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

When the top of the main shoot is removed by pruning or breakage the auxin is no long produced.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Women are also advised to continue treatment through the recommended end of breastfeeding, when the baby is one year old.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

When the asbestos is seen in light near that wavelength, the minerals look darker than those around them.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

That is the time of year when lilac plants burst into flower throughout much of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

This is especially true during the winter when it is too cold or snowy to do things outside.

VOA: special.2010.03.28