His mother's increasing deafness led the young man to study acoustics -- the way we hear and how sounds are made.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

After we leave the Hemingway house, we travel a little way to Green Street.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

CARLOS AMAYA: "Here I am, and the unique thing about the United States and the American way of living is we have rights to own our own businesses and to actually lead by example."

VOA: special.2009.04.10

"I think we have as individuals the right to follow the same policy or to adopt the same way of thinking."

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

"The policy we have had in place for 50 years has not worked the way we wanted it to,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

"We cannot in a way confine ourself that these are the ultimate dates that we may arrive to a final conclusion."

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

So we are looking at the closely. We haven't yet made a determination as to the best way forward."

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

"It surprises me from the way I felt at the time that we haven't been to Mars."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

This way we can show the Americans and especially the United Nations to do some for Iran,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.25

And we hope that they will be given the opportunity to do so in a peaceful way that respects the right of expression.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

That did not happen. As long that does not happen, there is no way we are going to open the ports to Greek Cyprus,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

this is a NATO mission as well." "And we are working actively and diligently to consult with NATO at every step of the way."

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

"We want a resolution to the Cyprus problem, this needs to get out of our way."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"We're meeting with people from IOC members all the way down to volunteers, including USOC,VANOC, sponsors from the top level to the national level,to suppliers."

VOA: standard.2010.02.26