Critics say this graphic novel artfully expresses the survivors' bravery and shows what it was like to live through this disaster.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

Before the disaster, it suffered from high death rates among babies and high rates of H.I.V./AIDS,hepatitis and other communicable diseases.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

This is a potentially catastrophic disaster and the images of destruction and flooding coming out of Japan are simply heartbreaking.

VOA: special.2011.03.12

The school principal, Lorna Oates-Santos,says children at Somerville Elementary have raised about two thousand dollars for disaster relief agencies.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

It was a disaster. In eleven days of fighting, one-third of the Confederate Army in Georgia was destroyed.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Gallery Director Joe Earle says much of the exhibit suggests a sense of human powerlessness and future disaster.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

The seats were built for the pilot to escape from an airplane in case of disaster.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Mr. Obama said the "continuing disaster" for working families was more reason for his economic plan.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

On August fifth,nineteen forty-nine, he was involved in a disaster at a forest fire near Helena,Montana.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

Now,American states along the Gulf of Mexico are fearing a different kind of environmental disaster.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

"The Department of Justice will insure the American people do not foot the bill for this disaster and that our laws will be enforced as much as possible."

VOA: special.2010.06.04

That disaster led Congress to pass new measures to prevent oil pollution.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The worst weather disaster on the lakes happened in nineteen thirteen.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

He called it "the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced."

VOA: special.2010.06.19

The worst fire disaster happened on Lake Erie in eighteen fifty.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Some say she described herself that way after the disaster.

VOA: special.2010.03.08