The situation was so bad,Calhoun said, that the South could not -- with honor and safety -- remain in the Union.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

In eighteen ninety-seven,a man with a good job working in New York City was paid about ten dollars each week.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Many victims live in areas with poor or non-existent health care systems and where antivenom treatments are often not available.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

But experts say the recession has not cut enrollment in four-year programs, even with their higher sometimes much higher -- costs.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

As she felt the doll with one hand I slowly formed the letters, d-o-l-l with my fingers in her other hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

More recently, Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus discovered new lands while seeking to expand trade with spice-growing areas in Asia.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

The Office of National Drug Control Policy said it works closely with anti-doping agencies in the United States and other countries.

VOA: special.2011.04.12

Historians say the yellow press was so powerful it helped push the United States into war with Spain in eighteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

And a big wireless carrier, AT&T,calls extending the net neutrality policy "a risky experiment" with American investment in high-speed Internet.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

In the nineteen forties, Lena Horne was the first African-American in Hollywood to sign a long-term contract with a major movie studio.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

He was first inducted into the Hall of Fame in nineteen ninety-seven with his band Crosby,Stills and Nash.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

His team won a national championship in nineteen eighty-nine which the school shared with Santa Clara University.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

It showed that a treatment called dorsal column stimulation could re-establish movement in rodents with Parkinson's-like problems.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Anti-slavery activist William Lloyd Garrison started a paper in eighteen thirty-one with the purpose of ending slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.20