I saw it clearly -- all a dull blue, with a horrible veil over it that chilled my bones;

VOA: special.2009.05.16

And I made it clear that by August thirty-first, two thousand ten, America's combat mission in Iraq would end.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

Yet,when it comes to my own money, I spend it at the drop of a hat - immediately,without waiting.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

I've got thirty-nine acres here and you can see it's all under about ten to twelve feet of water.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

The drug is nevirapine. If it is given within seventy-two hours after birth, it can often protect babies from H.I.V.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

said the gray-haired woman. "You see,I was nurse to the boy when it happened,and for years afterward I worked in the family.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

I can't say I remember all that much about the experience, other than it being very fast-paced.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee - a slow, gray rain.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

It was open -- wide,wide open -- and I grew angry as I looked at it.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

I think it's still possible for us to stamp out al- Qaida, to make sure that extremism is not expanding but rather is contracting.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

It says H.I.V.-related deaths appear to have reached their highest point in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

It says H.I.V.-related deaths appear to have reached their highest level in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

I watched it for perhaps a half-hour until my curiosity got the better of me.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

I knew it -- it was the odor which always comes before a thunderstorm.

VOA: special.2009.11.15