Susie Kay was a teacher at a mostly African-American high school in Washington when she launched Hoop Dreams in 1996.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

In 1996 Canadian professor David Irvine-Halliday was on a work trip in Nepal when his return flight was canceled.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

That's it." Youk Chhang says it took 13 years from the new book's conception in 1996 to get it into schools.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

This really disturbs me,he says. The 1996 alliance between Israel and Turkey, made Ankara Israel's closest friend in the Muslim world.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"They have been thinking about this since 1996, they have been talking amongst themselves about what it is they are going to do,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

The tensions have imperiled a strategic alliance forged in 1996 that cemented military and intelligence ties.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

The couple divorced in 1996. That year,he married Debbie Rowe and they divorced three years later.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

But,in 1996,the supreme court reduced the charges to criminal negligence, citing existing laws.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Chad Isaak, who has fished the Illinois River for 27 years, he saw his first Asian carp in 1996, and his life as a commercial fisherman has not been the same since.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Like the House version,the Senate measure would amend the 1996 Iran Sanctions Act to allow the president to sanction foreign companies involved in enabling the shipment of gasoline and other refined petroleum products to Iran, or helping to maintain its existing refining capacity.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

We go into games with no preconceived notions." In U.S.college football, the University of Florida Gators won the title for the second year in a row and the fourth since 1996 when they beat Oklahoma in the Bowl Championship Series game January 9.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24