Aides to President-elect Barack Obama have been negotiating with Congress on a 2-year recovery plan for the world's largest economy.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

And are any dorms open all year so international students can have a place to stay during long vacations?

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The seeds and pollen have left a forty-thousand-year record of the environment and weather for this area of California.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

Eighty to ninety percent of cluster headache patients have pain over a number of days to a whole year.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

Intensive vaccination campaigns have reduced the number of new polio cases reported worldwide to fewer than two thousand a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

Kirsten Kennedy,housing director at the University of South Carolina in Columbia,says all first-year undergraduates there have to live in a dorm.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

A statement noted that while food prices have decreased from their peak last year, they remain high in historical terms.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

Major banks have been doing well since the worst of the financial crisis shook Wall Street more than a year ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

The Census Bureau says more than forty-six million Americans, about fifteen and a half percent, did not have health insurance last year.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

And we play some great music we did not have a chance to play last year.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Hotels in many cities have special deals for New Year's Eve: dinner,Champagne and a party.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Two-year colleges, also known as community colleges, have not always gotten a lot of respect.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

She is the only poet to have received two Pulitzer nominations in a single year.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Asia and Africa have the highest number of snakebites together about four million a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.25