The book says the saying began because a competitor's face was cleaned with a cloth towel or other material.

VOA: special.2010.11.21

So you can read on an iPad or a touch-screen tablet, but the e-book readers are less expensive.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

Twenty years ago, Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomenei issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling on the faithful to kill author Salman Rushdie, a British citizen, over his book The Satanic Verses.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

"We wanted to get a little more hands on knowledge because our school wasn't really offering those kinds of courses or classes, so we wanted to not just sit around and read a book but actually do something,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

"And he wrote a small book of about 60 or 70 pages that was specifically focused on Luo speaking Kenyans that were learning to read and become literate, and he wrote a small book in Luo as a part of that process."

VOA: standard.2010.07.10