This is compared to half of students who had looked for a job by this time two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

In other words, a person who is suffering from the effects of severe cold may seem dead,but still be alive.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

During World War Two, Dave Brubeck,who is white, formed one of the first racially mixed bands in the Army.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

LaQuintha Carroll is one of many Hoop Dreams graduates who have returned to the program to work as a mentor.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

The revolution is based on the work of scientists who study the movement of the continents a process called plate tectonics.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Colin Firth plays a college professor who is mourning the death of his partner in "A Single Man."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Kim Bertrand at the Harvard School of Public Health is an epidemiologist -- someone who studies the spread and control of diseases.

VOA: special.2011.04.28

It is about a man who spends most of his life flying around the country to different cities.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Elyn Saks is a legal expert who works to expand the rights of people with severe mental illness.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

The tests sometimes reunite separated families and settle questions about who is the father of a child.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

"But there is a problem. He is one of the men who have been coming to see me in answer to your advertisement.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

He was born to a Canadian father and a mother who is part of the Dunne-za tribe.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

Uncle Sam is pictured as a serious old man with white hair who is dressed in America's colors of red, white and blue.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

But around the world,he says, there is a subculture of people who spend a great deal of time trying to set or break records.

VOA: special.2011.05.16