Banks in Austria,Italy and Sweden that expanded into the area during good times are now in danger of heavy losses.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

Since ancient times, thinkers including the Greek astronomer Ptolemy believed in the existence of a huge continent on the South Pole.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Hearst published the New York Journal. At times,both of them seemed more interested in selling newspapers than in respectable reporting.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

The ratio of nurses to population is about ten times higher in the United States and countries in the European Union.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

In two thousand six, a revival of "The Fantasticks" opened in the Snapple Theater Center near Times Square in New York.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

In ancient times,however, people believed that the swan was given a special gift of song at the end of its life.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The goal is to stop the cycle of easing rules on banks in good times and tightening them only after a crisis.

VOA: special.2010.09.17

"There's a yield potential of maybe four thousand kilos, ten times what the average is in West Africa."

VOA: special.2010.10.19

That was more than ten percent of all Americans -- and more than eight times the number of people in Ireland itself.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

For example, the rate of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and Korea is now 3 times what it was 40 years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

I was excited myself. I had visited Guyana as a reporter a number of times in the past.

VOA: special.2011.01.08

The Moscow Times newspaper reports that women were involved in about sixty percent of the nearly forty rebel attacks since two thousand one.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

He grew up during the Great Depression, one of the worst economic times in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

Pat Bodnar has more. "And the Pursuit of Happiness" began as a monthly column in the Opinion section of the New York Times.

VOA: special.2010.12.10