The study found that happy people are more likely to be socially active,to read,attend religious services and to vote.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Lincoln read the first draft of the document to his cabinet in July of eighteen sixty-two, five months after Willie's death.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

These electronic readers not only store books to show on a screen, they can also read them out loud.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

It read: "This is to inform you that an attempt will be made to supply Fort Sumter with food only.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

His mother, the only woman, he had ever known told him to read the Bible and read it every day.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

They were fun to read. Yet his books sometimes dealt with serious subjects including equality, responsibility and protecting the environment.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

After a year at Sanderson Academy, Mary decided that her handwriting was not good enough to be read clearly.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

He read it quickly. Then he put it in his pocket and ran out of the room without saying a word.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

When his mother learned of his failing grades she required her sons to read two library books every week.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

He decided to make it on March seventh, just three days after Calhoun's speech was read to the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The Scholastic website says a main goal of the company is to help boys and girls read and learn.

VOA: special.2011.05.27

He had an idea for a tool that would help television actors read their lines without having to memorize them.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

For example, read copies of a group's financial records and be careful of groups with names that sound like well-known charities.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Most people at that time thought it was not important for young women to learn anything more than to read and write.

VOA: special.2010.04.25