For example, read copies of a group's financial records and be careful of groups with names that sound like well-known charities.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Historians also say it is possible that she chose to write to someone like Higginson so she would not be understood.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

"It's a passion for the sport, it's like,you can be that rock god for a minute, without playing anything.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

She had let herself be controlled by some machine-like force that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The idea was that if the public knew what a criminal looked like, it would be harder for that person to hide.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

She would like to be taller. But I tell her that good things come in small packages.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

That means to be nervous about having to do something, like speaking in front of a crowd.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

This is the idea that a patentshould be given to a machine or something that creates a material change, like a chemical process.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Progress in two thousand two showed that plastic made from feathers could be formed like other plastics.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

The new study shows that happiness spreads through social networks like an emotional virus - a virus people would be happy to catch.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

"He thought that testing had its place, but that testing should be more like medical tests.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

"They just show me how to be better, different techniques of playing and stuff like that."

VOA: special.2010.06.21

He refused.Lincoln believed that starting an investigation would be like lighting a barrel of gunpowder.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

I kept saying to myself that when at last they found out about him, it will be like the sun falling out of the sky.

VOA: special.2010.03.27