She borrowed sound recordings from a musical project by the singer David Byrne to make one song on her new album.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

She was also influenced by the wooded hills near her home as well as by local Native American burial hills.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

She had let herself be controlled by some machine-like force that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

For example, if a wife leads her husband by the nose, she makes him do whatever she wants him to do.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

And she turned and hurried away, followed by the worried eyes of the man, and the sad eyes of the boy.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

In eighteen twenty-one, Mary Lyon went to another private school where she was taught by Reverend Joseph Emerson.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

She made speeches about flying. And she continued to fly by herself across the United States and back.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

By her example, she taught all Americans about the importance of one's beliefs and the power of truth.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

In Helen's first experience with the ocean, she was caught by a wave and pulled under the water.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

She was widely recognized by other researchers for her work with a protein called transforming growth factor-beta.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

The singer was upset by what she believed was inequality for women in the music industry.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

She is the lead author of a study by a team from Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Bergen in Norway.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

She says she was troubled by the many barriers her students faced in going to college.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

By the time she was seventeen, Marilyn was trying very hard to be a movie actress.

VOA: special.2009.12.06