And some people dream about being somewhere else where it is warm and pretty - like the state of California.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

Built like a robot, this building can change, based on the conditions of the climate and city around it.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

They wonder at the beauty of the area and imagine what it felt like to live there hundreds of years ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

One description said it was like sitting in the driver's seat of a small car, while wearing two heavy raincoats.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Like many songs on the album "Quiet Nights" it is a good example of Diana Krall's soft and smoky voice.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Like many observers, Professor Thompson uses the example of the imaginary June Cleaver, the mother on "Leave It to Beaver."

VOA: special.2009.05.04

And as more critical writers of America, like those of Britain, feel no need of it, the sooner it is forgotten,the better."

VOA: special.2010.08.08

The ruling was unpopular. It came as Americans resisted big corporations like the First Bank of the United States, chartered by Congress.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

It looks like what it is: a large, beautiful home built in the style of 16th century Italy.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

It found that their lack of complex products like futures and derivatives limits the ability to spread risk.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

But others say music like Lead Belly's would never have become widely known if it wasn't for the work of John Lomax.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

Forty wall areas contain maps of the world as Italians believed it looked like in the sixteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

The thought of having to live alone in a house like that was so frightening it was enough to curl your hair.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life.

VOA: special.2009.10.31