He says he invited his daughter and fifty of her friends to the studio on the first day of recording.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

And I remember when I was about twelve, her work and his work permitted us all to do that.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Because his wife Millicent liked to invite her friends to big dinners and serve them rare and expensive food and wine.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Kevin's mother thinks the robot has had a calming influence, helping her son get along better with his friends.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

He never returned. But many nights Sylvie heard the sound of his whistle as she came home with her grandmother's cow.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

No one but her lover saw it. Every eye but his was fixed on the man in the arena.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

If his daughter saw it, she would know that the moon on her neck was not really the moon.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

He told her his ideas about how species evolve over time -- what he called the transmutation of species.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

But there was no milk to catch. All Mike Henry got was tired hands from his attempts to milk her.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

When his mother learned of his failing grades she required her sons to read two library books every week.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Blinded by a meaningless imperfection and an impossible goal, Aylmer had thrown away her life and with it his chance for happiness.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

We ordered drinks. While we drank, he talked continually about himself, his family, his wife and her family.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

When they reached her, the stranger put down his gun and explained his problem to Sylvie's smiling grandmother.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

It's no kind of a way for a man to divorce his wife without her havin' any money.

VOA: special.2009.11.14