Eartha was sent to New York City to live with an aunt in the African- American neighborhood of Harlem.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

It can do this between sunrise and noon on a clear day with an average outside temperature of thirty-two degrees Celsius.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

I may come up with an idea and it may end up being something in the middle of the piece.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

was too big to fail. The Federal Reserve rescued the American International Group with an eighty-five billion dollar loan.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

The mystery is linked to the Freemasons, a secret men's group with an estimated five million members around the world.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

Some people have a fifteen- or twenty-year loan, often with an adjustable interest rate instead of a rate that never changes.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

In nineteen forty, Lena Horne became the first African-American to travel and perform with an all-white jazz band.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

A person with less than twenty-eight grams will now be charged with an infraction instead of a misdemeanor.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

A study published in Stroke last year involved about two thousand people with an average age of sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Randall Thompson was one of several American doctors who cooperated with an Egyptian heart expert on the study.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

Saturday night, the House of Representatives passed a bill with an estimated trillion-dollar price over ten years.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

As the boat moved slowly up the East River in New York, the doctors put President Cleveland to sleep with an anesthetic drug.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

It tells the story of a teenager named Bella Swan who falls in love with an unusual high school classmate named Edward Cullen.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

Now libraries are hoping to get more attention, and more money, with an unusual advertising campaign.

VOA: special.2011.07.11