In those days we lived in shabby discomfort in a large apartment on West Eighty-seventh Street, where my brother lives with his family today.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Trauma'

Mr. CHARLTON HESTON (actor, Reading): He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he'd gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

NPR: The Enduring Depths of 'Old Man and the Sea'

Several days before the competition, there was a serious discussion at school about who, of eighty students in the band, would be sent.

NPR: Literature and Lullabies from the 'Axis of Evil'