A United Nations report says water availability in that area is the second lowest in the world, after Africa.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

The La Brea Tar Pits have also provided science with interesting information about the plants that grew in the area.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

Pittsburgh is located in western Pennsylvania in the area where three rivers meet the Allegheny, the Monongahela and the Ohio.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

After the prize was announced, people who lived in the area of factory began to buy more of the company's candy.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

The old man thought he and his men could hold Harpers Ferry until slaves in the area rebelled and joined them.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Israel is close to losing what he called its "best friend" in the area.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

They would call for help. And several groups of militia in the area would come to the aid of Harpers Ferry.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

At least three Indian tribes were living in the area that became Charleston when Spanish explorers arrived in Fifteen-Twenty-One.

VOA: special.2010.10.04

It was free because Congress -- in the Missouri Compromise of Eighteen Twenty -- made slavery illegal in that area.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

In one area was a blank canvas that had been waiting twenty-five years for the first line of paint.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

One method was to sell oil in one area of the country for much less than the oil was worth.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Nothing happened when they turned on the light in cells in an area of the brain called the subthalamic nucleus.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Project organizers hope to re-create wetlands in Picayune Strand and nearby lands by redirecting the flow of water in that area.

VOA: special.2010.09.21

The Hopi,the Paiute,the Navajo and other Native American tribes have all been in the area for at least seven centuries.

VOA: special.2009.10.07