His mother's increasing deafness led the young man to study acoustics -- the way we hear and how sounds are made.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

a young man called out cheerfully. "How far is it to the main road?"

VOA: special.2010.04.03

They told how Harrison loved the hard and simple life of the common man.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

The size of a man's wig depended on how important he was.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

This is the story of how one man combined LEDs with solar energy technology to bring high-quality, low-cost electric light to poor people around the world.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

"The celebration of his return was extremely disturbing, and we have made it quite clear to the Libyan government both publicly and privately that we're going to be watching very closely how they receive this man,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.24