The study concludes that the worldwide health effects from drinking are about the same as that of smoking nine years ago.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

He was forty-nine years old. Leprosy -- also called Hansen's disease is a bacterial disease that causes skin wounds and nerve damage.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

For nine years this outdoor event organized by the Library of Congress has brought readers, writers and illustrators to the nation's capital.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

She was eighty-nine years old. In her later years, she was forced to live a simple life because of lack of money.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

The last time an American official visited the North was nine years ago during Mister Clinton's presidency.

VOA: special.2009.08.08

We have already been there nine years. I believe that is too high a price to pay."

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Nine years later,in eighteen forty-five, the United States Congress passed a resolution inviting the Republic of Texas to join the Union as a state.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

This September eleventh will be nine years since the al-Qaida terrorist attacks on the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

He was eighty-nine years old. A memorial service was held at the Washington National Cathedral.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Mary was nine years old. Tommy was six and little Teddy had just turned four.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

The money will help to support projects approved by the government nine years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

He was ninety-nine years old when he died at his home on July eleventh.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

Fifty-six percent of the injuries were to people twenty to thirty-nine years old.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

The telephone was born. Bell was twenty-nine years old.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

He also taught English for nine years.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

He was only thirty-nine years old.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

She was nine years old at the time. She remembers her mother on her knees, begging French police to take her but to spare her children.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

(NO TRANSCRIPTS) Melinda Gates says with the investment by the foundation and its partners, the deaths of eight million children would be prevented over the next nine years.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29