Some word experts say the expression to frame someone comes from the way wood must be fitted closely around a painting or photograph to frame it.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

That comes to around 3,000 deaths a day or one death every 40 seconds.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

The title comes from one of her thoughts during this time: "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent that happened after I was gone."

VOA: standard.2010.01.08