A forest of umbrella thorn acacia trees in northern Tanzania provides shelter and sustenance for a wealth of animals. In this crowded paradise, property is hotly contested at all levels. Male impala , eager to challenge for a territory, build up stre...
This is a fire ant colony in the southeastern United States. Like all ant colonies, it's ruled by a queen and all her workers and warriors are made up completely of female offspring. Unlike other ants, fire ants seem to have almost criminal leaning s...
Time again for StoryCorps, traveling the country recording your stories. Last week, we heard remembrances of the Great Depression. Today, we revisit that time with sisters Evelyn Palmour and Doreene McCoy. They were just children when the Depression...
It's time again for Storycorp, the oral history project traveling around the country. People have been interviewing each other in part to preserve memories. Today a daughter recalls her family's history with the accordion. Joyce Kahkonen's father pla...
With two-income households, soccer practice and glee club rehearsals, getting Mom and Dad and Heather and Zeke to sit down for dinner together isn't as easy as it was back in the days of Leave it to Beaver. But as Weekend Edition food essayist Bonny...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles, CA 09 July 2007 Around the United States, small family farms are struggling to stay afloat financially. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports that some have teamed up with big companies, while others have returned to tradition...
By Robert Raffaele Washington 27 June 2007 The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has declassified hundreds of once-secret documents, detailing some of the agency's activities from the 1950s through the early 1970s. They include a plot to assass...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 13 May 2007 Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have staged rallies in Rome to commemorate Family Day. At issue is proposed legislation that would grant greater rights to unmarried couples including homosexuals. Sabina...
By Sonja Pace London 12 April 2007 The director of the British Broadcasting Corporation and the family of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston are appealing Thursday for the journalist's release. Johnston went missing in Gaza one month ago and is presumed...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 28 March 2007 Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier to become the first African-American to play U.S. major league baseball 60 years ago. Mike O'Sullivan reports from Los Angeles, family members and friends of the Ame...