They urged the immigrants to write letters to their friends and relatives in the old country.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

For each country, researchers estimated the probability that a fifteen-year-old today will die an early death before the age of sixty.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Rounder is a major label that specializes in roots music, including bluegrass and old-time country.

VOA: special.2010.04.19

Copies of old census records are kept on microfilm at centers around the country.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

Twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor starred as Velvet Brown, a girl in an English country village.

VOA: special.2011.03.25

The old animal spent her days out in the open country eating sweet grass.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

The old man,I said, was not in the country.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Leticia Sakaria, a 19-year-old English student at the University of Namibia, says the government needs to address the country's pressing social ills.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

The United States has the largest military force in the country among the 42-nation coalition fighting the eight-year-old war against the insurgents.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

He performed country music at a local restaurant when he was 10 years old,and by age 13, had built his own broadcasting station and recording device.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Kyrgyzstan's five-day-old . provisional government is vowing to use the country's military to launch a special operation to neutralize President Kurmanbek Bakiyev if he does not resign.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

"There are some in Washington today who seem determined to play the same old partisan politics, working to score political points, even if it means burdening this country with an unsustainable status quo,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

In 2009,Taylor performed Taylor made history for being the first Country artist to win an MTV Music Video Award, and,at 19-years-old, became the youngest artist to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Award.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

As Yemen battles al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, a Southern separatist movement, and tries to wrap up a six-year old war in the north, Western governments warn their citizens to stay out of the country, scaring off tourists and investors.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

So,this is kind of a mood album, it's the extreme of moods, you know,Achin,' sad slow, sultry Country ballads and then the Shakin' is all up-tempo, kind of crazy,fast, a little bit throw-back Country, a little bit throw-back old soul or Motown."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18