The Nobel Prize committee said the book provides one of the best descriptions of small town life ever written.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Ellen Yeh from the Stanford University School of Medicine in California was one of the authors of the study.

VOA: special.2009.08.03

One of the rarest species of mangrove tree grows in just a few places in East Asia and India.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Twenty years after the Civil War, the Unitedbl States had become one of the leading industrial nations of the world.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

They called it a sacrifice to research that led the way to one of the greatest medical discoveries of the century.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington,D.C., has one of the oldest known pairs of Levi's jeans in its collection.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Then he made Conkling even angrier by appointing one of Conkling's political enemies Collector of Taxes for the port of New York.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

The CME Group, operator of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, is one of the world's largest traders of derivatives.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

It was one of eleven scientific devices carried by the Chandrayaan-One spacecraft of the Indian Space Research Organization.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

They helped make her book "Coming of Age in Samoa" one of the best-selling books of the time.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

This is one of the few photographs known to exist of a very dangerous man named James Miller.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

One of the largest air shows in the United States is also one of the largest trade shows in the aircraft industry.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

Because of Kahn,experts say, one of the poorest countries in the world has one of the most beautiful public buildings on Earth.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

This group was one of about one thousand eight hundred musical acts that performed at the South by Southwest festival last month.

VOA: special.2009.04.03