"She is very sick and weak," said Sue, "and the disease has left her mind full of strange ideas."

VOA: special.2009.08.01

She says that Earth Day is still very much about activism and fighting for the environment on a local level.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

She has performed with some of the greatest jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie and Herbie Hancock since she was very young.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

In the first season of the show, Sookie's friends are not very happy that she is interested in a vampire.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

She was a milkmaid. She had to get up very early every morning and go to the barn to milk the cow.

VOA: special.2010.11.20

Her MySpace page says her doctor once told her she had the larynx of a "very young adolescent."

VOA: special.2009.01.30

She was very intelligent. At a very early age she decided she wanted to be a writer someday.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

She wore no gloves. She slowly grew aware that her hand had felt something very pleasant to touch.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

If someone is doing an extremely good job and is very successful, you might say he or she is batting one thousand.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

"But she never expected you to do things the right way. And that is a very powerful thing."

VOA: special.2010.12.10

Over the past fifty years, she has made very important discoveries about the social behavior of chimpanzees.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

She used very dense stitches that are very close together to make flowing lines of bright colors.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

And,in a letter, she wrote that she was beginning to feel that the German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was a very great man.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

She has said that writing the songs on "Bare Bones" was a very new experience, almost like making her first album over again.

VOA: special.2009.07.10