However you like them, for best results, beets should be picked when the roots are two and one-half centimeters around.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

"It makes for this haunted sort of sound. It's a little bit like a wine glass, when you play a wine glass.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

She said: "Just like in golf, you always learn more when you lose than when you win."

VOA: special.2009.03.29

They say it takes some training. And there can be risks, like running when your feet are too cold to feel if you get injured.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

When a person shares her feelings freely and openly like this, you might say she wears her heart on her sleeve, or on her clothing.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Bob Doughty has more. When you walk into Coppi's Italian restaurant, it looks like many other warm and lively eating places on the popular U Street corridor.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

When snow covers everything around you, the world looks like a "winter wonderland."

VOA: special.2009.01.26

My mom always said, 'You're a good cook, you'll make a fine scientist,' when I told her that I like science.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Some stories are religious, others are moral, like the one about how to behave when you fall in love.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

But it don't feel right when you have to take someone else's life to make your life feel like it's better."

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"When we were watching the news, it seemed really bad,you know, like most of the hospitals went down and we need to give them food,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

It looks something like you'd see when the iron curtain was up or something."

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

When they made a movie like Frankenstein you never really imagined that happening;

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

It's kind of like , where you had side A,side B and you just flipped it over when you wanted to change your mood so to speak.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18