She made each hand as an example to students while she was teaching a class on drawing using free-motion embroidery.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

So it's a different class of resource not as easy to develop, and not even recognized as something worth pursuing, say,twenty years ago."

VOA: special.2009.10.23

"I think in Japan there was a collective identity as a society where everyone is middle class, everybody shares the same fate, there are not huge, wide disparities of income.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

"We have just come through what was one of the most difficult decades the middle class has ever faced a decade in which median income fell, and our economy lost about as many jobs as it gained,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.25