Sailors seem -- to those of us on land to lead exciting, even mysterious lives.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

In nineteen forty-eight, Miss Carson began working on another book, "The Sea Around Us."

VOA: special.2010.03.14

Rihanna's disc opened in fourth place on the US chart, while Chris had to settle for a seventh-place debut.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"Right now we have a little over two-thousand troops on the ground, another nine-thousand in the area on the ships supporting us,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

- BOY 3: Where are you going?- Come get a drink with us. - Yeah, you should hang out with us.- Come on.

VOA: standard.other

Max is a 10-year old boy with autism. Recently,his mother called on US lawmakers to allocate more funds to find the cause and a cure.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

We still carry on non-violent demonstrations as long as other people still support us and as long as the government still say 'no' to the dissolution of parliament."

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

"We have always offered this. If they were to help us help them, then the secretary-general would be in a position to go all out on the sanctions issue, humanitarian support, even reconstruction and development.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

"The trust and transparency and confidence that the agreement will bring to the US-Russia relationship will also make it easier for the US and Russia to cooperate on other areas that are central to US and Russian security."

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

"We have faced an enemy who do not want to fight us force-on-force, rather they wanted to lay improvised explosive devices to halt us in our path and this summer total of 1,800 Improvised explosive devices laid in our path, so we have had to adapt quickly."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

"A decision that I consider to be not only be unwise, but in fact based on a refusal to face the fact that what we are involved with here is a war with people who follow a religiously-based ideology that calls on them to kill us,and to return instead to the mindset that prevailed before September 11,2001,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.25