And that sort of geared me up for a whole series of novels where I do tons of research, even though I write fiction, which is supposed to be made up,right?"

VOA: special.2009.10.12

"They used purported charities, entities supposedly set up to do good works, as vehicles for laundering millions of dollars in illicit funds.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

"Now that the economy has gone down and the tuition's gone up - the army,they can pay for my college, so might as well do it."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

But for the young who make up most of the population, learning this history has been hard to do - schools have up to now just not taught it.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

"I do believe we probably should step up the relatively unobtrusive and relatively easy, although sometimes somewhat expensive, means of looking for explosives perhaps many more K-9 bomb teams at these kinds of places and we should continue put a lot of resources in intelligence work."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30