Because his wife Millicent liked to invite her friends to big dinners and serve them rare and expensive food and wine.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

They knew this because when they sang his songs, Woody's eyes would become brighter and his defiant spirit would shine through.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

He says his team changed existing life into new life because the synthetic cell can control and reproduce a living cell.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Schoenberg said Gershwin was a man who lived in music and expressed everything through music, because music was his native language.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Hitler could not strengthen his forces in North Africa and Italy, because Germany also was fighting hard in the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

The artist who created Charlie Brown and his dog Snoopy had retired a month earlier because of poor health.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

Ted Kennedy was well liked in the Senate because of his hard work, friendliness and sense of humor.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Some supporters of the president-elect deplored his inviting Pastor Warren because he opposes same-sex marriage and abortion rights.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

He became a national hero to both black and white Americans because of his skill, bravery and restraint.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

And the most famous of these is the one that scientists call Lonesome George because he is the last of his kind.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

It is because of his work that the wild forest at Biltmore has an ordered and peaceful look.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

"Germont and his policemen could not find the letter, because they did not try to understand the mind of the man who stole it.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

But Coppi's is different from other restaurants because of the careful way it is managed by its owners, Carlos Amaya and his sister Nori.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

When he began his trip, Mr. Fulton said he wanted to study buildings and monuments because that is what he had studied in school.

VOA: special.2009.01.14