A researcher says three hundred forty-three thousand AIDS deaths in South Africa in the last ten years could have been prevented.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

The administration says a new private space industry could create ten thousand new jobs across the country in five years.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

But ten years later, a similar accusation by another boy led to a criminal trial which began in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

Business was so good that a five thousand dollar investment in the cattle industry could make forty-five thousand dollars in four years.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

The number of people in the small town of Spencer,Iowa,for example, dropped from eleven thousand to eight thousand in just a few years.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

China put an astronaut into space in two thousand three, and it plans to send a robotic explorer to the moon two years from now.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than one thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Duncan sang at least five-thousand concerts in fifty countries during twenty-five years as a performer.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

The program is ten years old. And it has received a lot of recognition, including an award in two thousand six from the White House.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

And ten years later, in two thousand eight, he was one of the first top Democrats to support a young senator seeking the party's nomination for president.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

A government report this week said people on a terrorism watch list legally bought guns and explosives more than one thousand times in the past six years.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

About twenty-four-thousand years ago, it rained a great deal in the area.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

The tests showed it was four hundred years older than the Stonehenge formation in England -- and a thousand years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

If they are right about that new crack in the earth, this landlocked country could become a beach resort within, say,a few hundred thousand years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.14