For example, one afternoon a group of writers and critics gathered to discuss book sales in the Arab world.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

This past week,volunteers from Red Cross and Red Crescent societies around the world gathered in Solferino to mark the anniversary.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

They gathered hundreds of sea creatures and water samples to measure the garbage patch's effect on ocean environment.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

She gathered studies that showed the harmful effects of DDT, including declining bird populations and increased human cancers.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

She also gathered Uncle Vladimir's old shirt and Havala's old nightgown and an old apron of Aunt Natasha's to make a quilt.

VOA: special.2010.11.20

The researchers also gathered information about people's education, financial earnings, physical activity and use of alcohol or cigarettes.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

However,information gathered for the first three months of this year suggest two thousand nine will be even worse.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

When they had gathered all the supplies, the gold seekers then faced the extremely hard trip into Canada.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

In eighteen forty-eight, three hundred women and men gathered in Seneca Falls for the first Women's Rights Convention.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

The Museum of Modern Art has gathered over seven hundred of Tim Burtons drawings, paintings and other works.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

She worries about cybercrime and the information that could be gathered about a person from different Web sites.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Information gathered from these blue holes is helping scientists to increase their understanding of biology, archaeology and geology.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

Families and friends gathered in homes to share a dinner of turkey,cranberries, sweet potatoes,green beans and pumpkin pie.

VOA: special.2010.11.26

Thousands of people gathered at Madison Square Garden for a concert to honor Pete Seeger and his music.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

This year, some of those who performed with them that night gathered at the Surf to remember.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

They used information gathered over a period of 20 years, until 2003, in the Framingham Heart Study.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

This year,more than one hundred thirty thousand people gathered on the National Mall to hear top writers and poets talk about their work.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

In November,Anthony Colaprete, a leading scientist with the LCROSS project, spoke about information gathered by the spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

One scientist estimated that if all the HeLa cells ever grown were gathered together, they would weigh more than fifty million metric tons.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Leaders from NATO countries have gathered for two days of meetings through Saturday in Strasbourg,France,and Kehl,Germany.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Mother did not know Bill was gone until she gathered the children for the midday meal.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

represented a time of promise. "This could not be happening" was the sentiment expressed as a growing crowd gathered around that black-and-white TV set.

VOA: special.2009.08.16