He worked on his high school newspaper and later left the University of Texas at Austin to become a journalist.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The researchers left a piece of paper on the handlebars of the bicycles while their owners were away.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Another report suggests that driving a vehicle on its left side increases the risk of developing skin cancer on the left side of the body.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

When a wall near the bicycles was covered in graffiti, sixty nine percent of individuals left the paper in the street or on a nearby bicycle.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

And each brother wears a ring on the third finger of his left hand.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

The massacre - blamed on the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles - has left the country in a state of shock.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

And on Friday, a suicide car bomb in the northwestern city of Peshawar left more than 50 people dead.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

With his father's blessing, Kyle left the film studies program at the University of Southern California, brushed up on his bass playing, and formed a band, The Kyle Eastwood Quartet.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

The abortion issue is likely to remain in the spotlight as President Obama seeks to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the retirement this summer of Justice David Souter.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

Campaigners say it has helped to shine a spotlight on the violent consequences of the trade in illicit diamonds - a spotlight they hope will remain even after the celebrities have left.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

The Obama administration is engagedin a review of U.S.strategy in Afghanistan, and worries on the left about the U.S.getting militarily bogged down will be part of the broader political debate in Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"There's a classic one here which is lads walking to work, it's early morning you can see on the left hand side there's a band which is very typical of these big work institutions,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

The president says America may never see his like again: a veteran lawmaker who left a lasting imprint on all aspects of life in the United States, from health care to civil rights to education.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26