But as he says, the search for life in outer space is a long-term goal, and he is still hopeful.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Clara Barton started her life as a nurse during the early days of the Civil War in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

But as one doctor advises her patients, becoming a non-smoker is one way to gain control of your life.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Another friend sent this message to Roosevelt on his forty-sixth birthday: "You have made a very good start in life.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Then, he finished a study program in non-profit management because he wanted to do something different with his life.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

He spent the next thirty-four years of his life collecting stones and building a wildly imaginative palace building.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

He wrote a book about the final years in the political life of a long-time mayor of Boston,Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

A survey last April by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that fifty-four percent of Americans opposed gay marriage.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

She was eighty-nine years old. In her later years, she was forced to live a simple life because of lack of money.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

She was seventy-three years old. She leaves behind a written record of her life and legacy through the words of her poems.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

The first Rockwell work Spielberg ever bought is a nineteen twenty-two painting called "And Daniel Boone Comes to Life on the Underwood Portable."

VOA: special.2010.09.20

In nineteen forty-three, Fala appeared in a short movie about life in Washington during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Roland LeGiardi-Laura says life feels out of control for a lot of the children he works with.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

One of the best-liked songs in Britain then was a song about the better life in America.

VOA: special.2010.05.13