Megrahi's release in August and the festive welcome he received upon returning to his native Libya drew international outrage and strong protest from U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Recognize a pattern here? Jennifer Fisher is a lawyer and Nancy Drew collector in Arizona who organizes Nancy Drew conventions.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Publisher Simon and Schuster says it has sold two hundred million copies of Nancy Drew books in twenty-five languages around the world.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

These include more recent ones such as "Nancy Drew on Campus" in which Nancy is a college student.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Our subject this week is the teenage investigator in one of the most successful children's book series of all time Nancy Drew.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Over the years, Nancy Drew has appeared in movies and television shows, but without very much success.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Susan was about ten years old, growing up in the Midwest, when she discovered Nancy Drew.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Another series aimed for younger readers with an eight-year-old Nancy in "The Nancy Drew Notebooks."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

As the election of 1840 drew closer, the Whig Party felt more and more hopeful that it could put its candidate in the White House.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

The first Nancy Drew books were published in April of nineteen thirty.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Instead,he drew the creatures to look like his family members in Brooklyn.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

In graduate school she wrote a paper on Nancy Drew.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

And I think that was one of the things that made Nancy Drew special this was in the fifties or early sixties was that this girl survived by her wits and that was a new thing."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Still,she says her books reflect the Nancy Drew stories that she read as a child: "Things that I read as a kid keep cropping up in my own work whether I realize it or not.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

When Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury drew their pistols I knew it was a fight for life, and I drew and fired in defense of my own life and the lives of my brothers and Doc Holliday."

VOA: special.2010.02.15

Defense made stops when they had to and Drew did a good job getting his team in the end zone.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

In crafting her story, Gomez drew on her own experiences growing up in Miami,Florida, and on her career as an immigration attorney.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"It has been long expected operation to actually respond to recent PKK attacks that drew a lot of reaction from turkish society in recent days."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

"You know, I was an avid skateboarder as a kid." "I had a big half-pipe in my backyard and that's what kind of drew me to snowboarding initially.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Demand drew scores of people to vaccination clinics in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

The House measure is similar to legislation Congress approved regarding Darfur in Sudan, but would not direct the federal government to publish a list of companies with investments of more than $20 million in the Iranian energy sector -- a provision that drew opposition from some lawmakers.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28