She has performed with some of the greatest jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie and Herbie Hancock since she was very young.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

Last year was the first year since two thousand four that Hawaii has had fewer than seven million visitors.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

It has been more than two years since he has been to a hospital emergency room because of asthma.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

Both records have since been broken, and Larry Olmsted says he has no plans to try to recapture them.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

In his book "The Color Line", he wrote that the problem of race has been part of America since its creation.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

The organization says wildlife strikes have led to the deaths of two hundred nineteen people around the world since nineteen eighty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

President Felipe Calderon has deployed thousands of troops for anti-drug efforts since he took office in two thousand six.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

It was the deadliest day in the capital since American combat troops withdrew from Iraqi cities on June thirtieth.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

But since last year there has been little activity in the seven hundred fifty billion dollar market for commercial mortgage securities.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

But it is still possible to make paper by hand, since the steps are the same as using big machines.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

It says salt in the American diet has increased fifty percent since the nineteen seventies, while blood pressures have also risen.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

The competition was first held in two thousand two and has taken place every two years since two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Since mackerel was a common and cheap fish in the United States, it was often eaten for dinner on Friday.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first noise, when he had turned in the bed.

VOA: special.2009.05.16