People who reached out for emotional support at the time - and received it - reported better results from the crying experience.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

All south of it -- including the Columbia River -- would belong to the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

I knew it -- it was the odor which always comes before a thunderstorm.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Professor Yoshino explains. "Shakespeare calls this a problem of ocular proof, the idea that we need to see evidence before we believe in it -- and that,oftentimes, when metaphysical questions of guilt or innocence are difficult for us to answer, we have a tendency to reduce them to questions that pertain to physical evidence.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

In general,Germans want the social contract maintained and are willing to sacrifice to keep it - for themselves and future generations.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

But the only bad thing about it - I don't get a chance to really enjoy the Con.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

They argued that more than $12 billion was spent on Pakistan during the previous Bush administration with little to show for it - a point underscored by Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, in this exchange with Ambassador Holbrooke.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

Once agian,Ronald Suny. "What's startling is that two important countries have not recognized it - the United States,repeatedly, because of its alliance with Turkey, its strategic interest in the region, its need for Turkey as a NATO ally, in its war against Iraq, has not recognized it.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

"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

It is not chaos or death -- it is form,union,plan -- it is eternal life -- it is Happiness.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -- The truth about Emily Dickinson has been difficult to discover.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

"Mr.President," he said, "at this time it is suicide -- murder and will lose us every friend in the North.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today - a person who is new in a job.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

I saw it clearly -- all a dull blue, with a horrible veil over it that chilled my bones;

VOA: special.2009.05.16