We wish you all happiness and good fortune in the New Year, and hope will join us again next time for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

And the U.S. and the 16 nation Eurozone can expect modest but continued expansion even as job growth continues to lag in the new year.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

When Congress returns in the new year, negotiators for the House and Senate will begin the tough task of merging their different versions of health-care reform legislation into one bill the president can sign.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

Ten children ages eight to fourteen were in New York recently for the finals of this year's Discovery/3M Young Scientist Challenge.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

That was in nineteen eighty-seven, a year after the first induction ceremony, which took place at a hotel in New York.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

In two thousand six, the year after Hurricane Katrina, the Saints returned to play at the repaired Superdome in New Orleans.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

In cycling,American Lance Armstrong announced he will return to the Tour de France next year with a new American-based team.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Twenty-nine-year-old photographer Paul Rockower shows his own Family of Man pictures in the new exhibit at the University of Southern California.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

The Institute of International Education in New York says thirty-one percent during the last academic year were undergraduates.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

The first test of the new government's popularity may come next year in upper house elections in Japan.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

In nineteen eighty-six, sixteen year old Rakim started to work with the New York City music producer,Eric B.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Earlier this year, the British Journal of Sports Medicine published new guidelines for concussions in children and teens.

VOA: special.2009.10.28

On New Year's Eve,some communities in the United States hold what are called First Night celebrations.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

In the Netherlands, it is illegal to explode firecrackers in the weeks before New Year's Day.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

A new study found better results in four-year-olds who go to bed around the same time every night and sleep at least eleven hours.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

A new report says adult obesity rates rose last year in twenty-three of the fifty states.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

He was the top new player, or rookie of the year, in nineteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Two weeks ago, sixteen year old Stacy performed a poem about the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire says angel investing fell more than six percent nationwide in the first half of last year.

VOA: special.2011.01.14

The year-long program involves at-risk children in troubled New York City schools.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

In Southern California, the weather on New Year's Day might be cold.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Some we've had in the past do the Chinese New Year.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

"I'm not a believer in resolutions for New Year's. I think that resolutions come when they need to throughout the year, when you decide that someone needs a change."

VOA: special.2009.12.28