As she felt the doll with one hand I slowly formed the letters, d-o-l-l with my fingers in her other hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

He was still sitting up in the bed listening -- just as I have done, night after night.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Marcelo D2 has performed with famous American hip-hop artists such as will-i-am from the Black Eyed Peas.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

As I watched the fierce-looking creatures, I failed to hear twenty full-grown Martians coming from behind me.

VOA: special.2011.07.16

It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee - a slow, gray rain.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

It was open -- wide,wide open -- and I grew angry as I looked at it.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

As recently as January, the I.M.F.had predicted growth of one-half percent.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

not a feather then he fluttered -- Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before - On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before."

VOA: special.2010.10.31

He hears a noise at the window. Here is the beginning of the poem: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -- While I nodded,nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping -- rapping at my chamber door.

VOA: special.2010.10.31

As long as I've been here this is the toughest thing that's ever happened to this city and I want to urge everybody out there to give whatever you can - as little as you can or as much as you can - to give something because there's a lot of people really hurting right now.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

"And I think al-Qaida is out there even as we meet trying to figure out how to do that."

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

So I need everybody to be clear - we will protect your identities and your security as you vigorously pursue your missions."

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

But,as I said, Mr.al-Megrahi now faces a sentence imposed by a higher power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

"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