but the fact is they are intelligent, ambitious,motivated and to be just a pawn in the story of a whole bunch of men fighting it out,rolling around and getting down-and-dirty, while there you are just a vision in a tight cat-suit is just a boring thing."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

As the mulch breaks down, it provides material that keeps the soil from getting hard.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Old ones were getting pretty bald. Well, probably be late for dinner.I gotta head down to Mason County.

VOA: standard.other

The president will waste no time in Japan, getting to work almost immediately after Air Force One touches down at a Tokyo airport.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

The Obama administration is engagedin a review of U.S.strategy in Afghanistan, and worries on the left about the U.S.getting militarily bogged down will be part of the broader political debate in Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

(Recording) Yoon says the North Korean leader is trying to "lower his son down safely from the back of a tiger, without getting eaten" a metaphor referring to Kim Jong Il's apparent plans for his youngest son to take over one day.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23