But you don't have to be very smart to know what his trouble is.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

He didn't talk to anyone. But his eyes recorded everything.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

"And I want his three children to know wasn't nothing strange about your daddy.

VOA: standard.2009.07.07

Dad, it wasn't his fault. You could've been killed.You understand that?

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But the scientists don't seem to mind. Ivan Jimenez of the Missouri Botanical Garden says he appreciates the chance to talk about his work with people outside the scientific community.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Ben Hassine Lassaad, the secretary general of the Tunisian Writers Syndicate, says that his membership is facing a crisis, "We can't deny that we have writers who aren't working,"he said, writers who are suffering from poverty, writers without social security, without housing.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

He hated school. He didn't like living with his family on Cordelia Street in the industrial city of Pittsburgh.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

He just smiled and said, "A man ain't nothing but a man.He has just got to do his best."

VOA: special.2009.02.21

He didn't want to see his ugly bedroom or the cold bathroom with its cracked mirror and gray floor.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

John Henry lifted his son into the air.He told his wife, "A man ain't nothing but a man.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

One of his promises was to fight a fare increase on what was known as the M.T.A.subway system.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

He brined his turkey and I didn't brine mine. And we decided which one was the best."

VOA: special.2009.11.23

But he says he and his two friends didn't really know much about the music business.

VOA: special.2010.04.19

That's his motto. He has great advice: 'don't set the kitchen on fire.'" Author Mohammed Naseehu Ali shared childhood memories of his mother's kitchen in Ghana.

VOA: special.2011.08.08