About half of those laid off were teachers, says John Deasy,the head of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

VOA: special.2011.05.05

John Glenn, the former astronaut who was then a senator from Ohio, put it this way: "I know the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

The fire was so big that American astronaut John Glenn could see it from space as he orbited Earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Adair said one of the best honors in the world was to have John Wayne play him in a movie.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

One day in October of eighteen fifty-nine, Americans were shocked by news of an attack led by John Brown.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

John Boehner, the minority leader in the House of Representatives, called it "thought crimes" legislation and "radical social policy."

VOA: special.2009.10.31

They are a black man named Joe Christmas, and a former minister,John Hightower, who has lost his belief in God.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and John Williams all worked together on the music for the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha."

VOA: special.2009.01.16

By then,Lincoln was dead. On April fourteenth,eighty sixty-five, Southern sympathizer and actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in Ford's Theatre.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

In the ruling, Chief Justice John Marshall described a corporation as an "artificial being" that is a "creature of the law."

VOA: special.2010.03.05

"The Lomaxes,John and Alan, thrfather and son team and then Bess to a certain extent worked at the Library of Congress.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

He was about half way across the river when the tree trunk moved suddenly, John fell from it onto the ice.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

He wanted to leave right away. As John walked through the woods that day,he began thinking about his future.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

But,just relax,mainly." But New Year's Day is anything but a day of rest for John Worster, who lives in Idaho.

VOA: special.2009.12.28