He said he would support reforms to let ability -- not politics -- decide who would get government jobs.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

An estimated eighty-three percent of people under age sixty-five who are in the United States legally now have insurance coverage.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

He proposed a new civil service system that would let ability -- not politics -- decide who got government jobs.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

The story is told by Sara Louise Bradshaw, a 13-year-old girl who lives with her parents and her twin sister Caroline.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

A few of the stolen e-mails showed open dislike for scientists who oppose the idea of human-influenced global warming.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

The proposed law aims to expand community-based services for those who want to receive long-term care at home.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

Several popular songs in recent years were about cold-hearted men or cold-hearted women who, without feeling, broke the hearts of their lovers.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

The people who collected customs -- taxes on imports -- could keep part of the money they collected.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

The WHO's Director-General,Margaret Chan, has expressed concern there is not a good process in place to produce enough vaccine against the virus.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

(THE WHO - "SUMMERTIME BLUES") The Lovin' Spoonful was a band that did not love summers in the city because of the heat.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

Future generations may sing about the "hero on the Hudson" - the pilot who saved his passengers when he crash-landed on a river.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Democrat Grover Cleveland -- who had lost to Harrison four years earlier -- would be president again.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

One study involved sixty-eight healthy young women and men who ran at least twenty-four kilometers a week.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

America's National Cancer Institute has said that people who smoke low-tar cigarettes do not reduce their risk of getting diseases linked to smoking.

VOA: special.2010.03.09