Just three years later, she was performing with famous jazz and blues musicians including Clark Terry, Oscar Peterson and Joe Williams.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

The eighth grader from California climbed Everest with a team that included his father, his stepmother and three Sherpas.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

John Lewis combined classical music with traditional jazz to create songs for himself and the three other members of his quartet.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

with her mother and brother. Safia says she wrote her first poem for a high school English class three years ago.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Tardos Mors met with the soldier and reported that every creature on the planet had but three days to live.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

The sixty-three year old coach has had operations to replace both of his hips and has problems with his back and knees.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

The G.P.Griffith was traveling from Buffalo,New York to Chicago with about three hundred men, women and children.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

A businessman named Nathan Burrell and some of his colleagues came up with the idea during a business trip to Agogo three years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Anna Carpenter is thirty-three years old and busy with work, a husband and soon a child.

VOA: special.2010.12.27

Nominees for these academies must be seventeen to twenty-three years old, unmarried and with no children.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

The astronauts were three hundred twenty thousand kilometers from Earth with little oxygen, electricity and water.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

There were three others with him: the ships captain,the cook, and a sailor.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

"They found that men can experience up to a three-fold increased risk of stroke, and that risk seemed to be well correlated with the severity of sleep apnea."

VOA: special.2011.05.04

Fans will recognize veteran keyboardist George Duke, who co-wrote three tunes with Harp and performs acoustic and electric piano.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12