He discovered that finches that lived in different places and ate different foods had different shaped beaks.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

In its purest form, clay can be shaped and stretched and used to make objects.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Traditional Easter meals of lamb were organized in the camps and Italian dove-shaped Easter cake was also handed out.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

"Try to Remember" is set in Miami in the late 1960's, an era shaped by political and social changes, including new roles for women.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"People ask me,' How long did it take you to write that book? ' The answer is,'Sixty-eight years.'" The book consists of 600 essays by Milner - some done in consultation with other experts in the many fields shaped by Darwin's thinking ." .

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

John Silvia is the senior economist at Wells Fargo Bank: "Private payroll gains continue to be modest and I would say it does raise flags for those super optimists who were looking for a V-shaped recovery and thinking that we are going to go back to normal very quickly in the US.economy."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02