Small towns in the Appalachian Mountains needed nurse-midwives and I went to a town called Truitt, my father's first name.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Poetry feeds my soul. Poetry is comforting and soothing, and it's awe-inspiring as a glimpse of rainbow, which should come as no surprise since poems and rainbows have something in common.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

"You jump from making my family stronger and raising my own living standards, to raising my community's living standards hopefully to raising my sub-county's living standards to raising my district's living standards, to raising my country's living standards."

VOA: special.2010.06.16

"I never done it in my life - I don't,know kind of hard, that's why I am still here - unemployed."

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

We've had our mailbox blown up. And recently, my two-year-old granddaughter's bedroom window was shot out."

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

"Now that the economy has gone down and the tuition's gone up - the army,they can pay for my college, so might as well do it."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

"You know, I was an avid skateboarder as a kid." "I had a big half-pipe in my backyard and that's what kind of drew me to snowboarding initially.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

It's brand-new. Very modern. I'll have my peopletake care of it.

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BOY: There she is. - What's up?- It's my girl.

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I do not want to have a person's death on my conscience.'" The rising visibility of Asian-Americans already in the service may make a military career more acceptable to Asian-Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

"So the government must change its mind, that is the government must dissolve the parliament as soon as possible - let's for the sake of the government, but for my side we still have the government dissolve the parliament within 15 days."

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

People will think you are sick and they are not going to vote for you.' And my message was, 'I am a public figure and this is my responsibility,'" But Stanford's Dr.So - whose mother-in-law died from liver cancer - says changing attitudes is just a start.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26