As Commissioner of the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities and as a blind man, it is Matthew Sapolin's mission to fulfill the spirit and the letter of the ADA by working to ensure that New Yorkers with disabilities can live, work and learn here with relative ease.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

One well known work by the French painter Jean Antoine Watteau shows a man in a garden playing a musical instrument.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

American workers then began to protest,as their jobs were filled by immigrants who were happy to work for less money.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

The team was led by Walter Reed, the Army doctor and scientist noted for his work on infectious diseases.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

For example, your body reacts to stressful situations by raising your blood pressure and making your heart work harder.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

He says -- speaking by Skype from his office in Ann Arbor,Michigan -- that he is hopeful the program will work.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

The study found there is strong support for restricting work by doctors-in-training to sixteen or fewer hours at one time.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

This medicine seems to work by governing the activity of a chemical involved in information processing, storage and memory.

VOA: special.2011.02.08

Other kinds of clerical work that is either being outsourced or is being replaced by technology that does it efficiently.

VOA: special.2010.11.22

They had to work. By the time Sarah was five years old, she was picking cotton in the fields with her family.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

This is work generally done by a person who recently earned a PhD, or doctor of philosophy degree.

VOA: special.2009.01.15

J.Robert Oppenheimer's life and work were affected deeply by Americans intense fear of Communism in the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Now,the event is administered by a twelve-person group called the Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Foundation.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

He was influenced by Thomas Malthus' work, "An Essay on the Principle of Population" written in seventeen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.02.25