In the book a creature named Sam-I-Am tries to get another creature to eat an unusual meal, green eggs and ham.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

I did not intend to fight unless it became necessary in self-defense and in the performance of official duty.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

During tough times -- I mean we are in a recession right now -- this is like affordable luxury.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

I was a first-year student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and was relaxing between classes at the student union building.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

She's named after my sister-in-law." "Well I always liked the name Sebastian, so I wanted to name our older son Sebastian.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Small towns in the Appalachian Mountains needed nurse-midwives and I went to a town called Truitt, my father's first name.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

But the anger was directed mainly at one hundred sixty-five million dollars in bonuses paid to employees of A.I.G.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

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

But in the last twenty years, H.I.V.and the collapse of the Soviet Union helped raise death rates in thirty-seven countries worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

He is a leader in the sign-making industry - a real big gun,if you know what I mean.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

So what happens? He gets a title shot outdoors in the ballpark, and what do I get, a one-way ticket to Palookaville.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

"I want a grandchild.I'll be seventy in July, and I just -- whether they get married or not, I want a grandchild."

VOA: special.2011.05.23

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

VOA: special.2009.05.16

One evening in Paris, during the autumn of eighteen forty-five, I went to visit a friend, Auguste Dupin.

VOA: special.2009.12.26