Seventy-one bird species have disappeared forever since people first arrived on the Hawaiian Islands one thousand seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

In Canada,for example, indigenous -- or First Nation people live on average seven fewer years than Canadians of European ancestry.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

His eighteen sixty-six painting "Yosemite Valley" gave many people on the East Coast their first introduction to California's beautiful mountain area.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

American inventor Dean Kamen started FIRST in nineteen eighty-nine to increase young people's interest in science and technology.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

They said he put the first letters of his names -- O and K -- on each object people gave him to send on the train.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

But some people are born with an extra copy of the twenty-first chromosome.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

His inaugural committee Web site is naming donors who have given The limit for individual contributions is Organizers have been preparing for as many as 2 million people at the inauguration of the first African-American president.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Eight years after the end of a decade-long civil war, people will talk publicly for the first time of atrocities committed in their communities.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

For the U.N.to keep urging that peace be created first before a U.N.peacekeeping force can be sent continues to deny the Somali people badly-needed international forces to assist in the stabilization of that country,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

"In developing countries, that's going to be a longer process where you'll have perhaps business people,farmers, small business people, professionals who will be the first adopters - the doctors,government officials - and then it will slowly as you get more apps (applications) slowly permeate out probably."

VOA: standard.2010.06.25