While in high school, Roberto signed a contract to play baseball for the Santurce Crabbers in the Puerto Rican winter league.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The ban in the UAE could affect half a million BlackBerry users while Saudi Arabia has about seven hundred thousand users.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

This week in our Foreign Student Series, we discuss rules about getting a job while studying in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Nina struggles to perform the leading role in "Swan Lake" while dealing with a controlling mother, played by Barbara Hershey.

VOA: special.2011.02.21

In Kenya,a project aims to educate girls about H.I.V.prevention while helping them stay in school during their monthly periods.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

One description said it was like sitting in the driver's seat of a small car, while wearing two heavy raincoats.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

He set a time limit for withdrawal of most American troops from Iraq, while increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

While in school, Benny got a job as a violin player with the Barrison Theater, the local vaudeville house.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford's Theatre while watching a play with his wife in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

For a while, they settled in the state of Illinois, in a town they built and called Nauvoo.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

She may work with cowboys, but she says that does not mean she cannot make something more feminine once in a while.

VOA: special.2011.01.31

She dreamt about a young girl and a vampire having an intense discussion while standing in a forest.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

In eighteen forty-eight, while James Polk was president, there was a great constitutional debate in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

When Gardot was nineteen, a large car ran into her while she was riding her bicycle in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2009.10.30