A doctor in Illinois remembers that before his internship, he wanted to work in crisis medicine in the emergency room.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Sports writer Paul Gallico wrote that Babe Ruth played ball in the same intense way that he lived his life.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

He discussed the seven hundred eighty-seven billion dollars in spending and tax cuts that he signed into law last week.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

He says -- speaking by Skype from his office in Ann Arbor,Michigan -- that he is hopeful the program will work.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

He says that in Prague he will lay out a plan to seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

He landed in California. He left a hole so deep that to this day it is known as Death Valley.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

But he agrees that in recent years, many companies have tied pay to short-term performance, instead of their long-term health.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

He succeeded in beginning that process, though black Americans did not gain full civil rights until the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

No charges have yet been brought, but Chris Brown said in a statement that he was "sorry and saddened" over what happened.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

He has said that,in some ways, he has been more influenced by artists and sculptors than by architects.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

But it was not until college at Oberlin in Ohio that he decided to study music more seriously.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Two years later, in seventeen fifty-seven, he produced a small clock that he could hold in his hand.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

In 1912, he began to study a skin disease that was killing thousands of people in the South.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

He died in nineteen eighty-nine. But the songs that he gave America will be played and sung for many years to come.

VOA: special.2009.12.20