And the sooner you learn -- get out.Get out!" MOTHER: "Mercy Maude,Frank, I'll bet you jumped six and nine-tenths inches that time."

VOA: special.2009.05.04

When I had waited a long time, without hearing him lie down, I decided to open a little -- a very,very little -- crack in the lantern.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

I wish schools should change their start time to eight-thirty or nine a.m.

VOA: special.2010.10.14

"I don't think Mommy likes me very much." Two-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep can be seen in August playing the famous cook and cookbook writer Julia Child.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

And this one, I was skiing out in Salt Lake City and the name of a building out there was Reid with R-E-I-D and it sounded good at the time."

VOA: special.2009.07.06

"I look for jobs. Everybody here is looking for jobs, part-time jobs, any kind of thing,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

"He's been playing the anti-American, anti-Western coalition card, I think,both genuinely and, at the same time,cynically,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

"To communicate with people more and more and more about what was there and he used to tell me all the time - and I quote him, 'People protect what they love.'

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Another time,I was running along. Somebody who'd lost all his moneyin the T-shirt business, he wanted to put my faceon a T-shirt, but he couldn't draw that well, and he didn't have a camera.

VOA: standard.other

They really,I think, represented us very well." Among the American highlights - alpine skier Bode Miller, a two-time overall World Cup champion, ended the frustration of being shut out in the last Olympics by winning a set of medals, a gold,silver and bronze.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

and the Canadian-born comedian-actor calls it one of the most satisfying roles of his career: "The first time I saw it with an audience,the line 'but you are beautiful to me' got a gasp from the crowd who were so into the romance and the heart of it."

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

"The bus went into the middle of the desert and at a certain moment the call to prayer came just lilting through the desert - first time I've ever heard it - and then the bus stopped and all of those colorful people got off the bus."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21