To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

This week in our series, Kay Gallant tells what life was like for the early American cowboy.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

Like Helen Martins, outsider artists add new life, imagination and skill to the world of creative expression.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

From a cave room you can see far up and down the canyon and imagine what life was like there seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Yet many people around the world only know the areas of Baltimore shown on TV dramas like "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "The Wire."

VOA: special.2011.03.07

One story line in "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" is like a history lesson.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Life was like a dream. But like any dream, it could not last forever.

VOA: special.2011.02.17

"My whole life,I'm like, I'm Mexican and I'm really -- I'm a proud Mexican-American and I swear I was an Aztec princess in my past life.

VOA: special.2010.09.13

The report says the changes could explain why persons born by Caesarean section are more likely to get diseases like diabetes and asthma later in life.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

"I think they bring a little life to this street. I like them! I think that they are uniquely representative of the United States, of different cultures, our passions.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

This is what she wrote as a young girl: "Sometimes a sense of loneliness covers me like a cold mist I sit alone and wait at life's shut door.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Her life as a child was like a bad dream.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

They say this is just like destroying a human life.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

This work is extremely detailed and life-like.

VOA: special.2010.08.04