But the risk rises to one in every 40 people among those who have a close family member with the disease.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

"Every time we come close to passing health insurance reform, the special interests fight back with everything they've got.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

In Paris, Isabella became close friends with one of her classmates, Julia Gardner, whose family was from Boston, Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

And among the conversations I had with my Chinese colleagues was the very close relationship between Dewey's ideas and those of Confucius.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

With a fearless spirit I went to the place and got close enough to the ruined cabin to throw a stone against it.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

From a distance, they shot at each other. Close up, they cut each other with knives.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

We close our program with music from a record called "Canyon Lullaby" written by Paul Winter.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

David Harrison and Gregory Anderson of Living Tongues say that many endangered languages are spoken by native cultures in close contact with the natural world.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

She becomes close friends with a young man who competes for her love and attention.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

Often the seagulls came very close and stared at the men with black bead-like eyes.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

They were as close to hostilities as Washington was with the Nazi government in Berlin.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

They said close to ninety percent of the trees planted with the device survived.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

I started down the dark, twisting stairway with Fortunato close behind me.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Close behind with forty-eight comments was a report about financial aid.

VOA: special.2009.12.31