To many of the people there, Lincoln's victory was a signal that ended the state's ties to the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

And that's killing me inside. I feel like a zombie because there's nothing that I can do to my people that's struggling."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

When the cat's away, the mice will play means people sometimes misbehave when there is no supervision.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

"I lost a big portion of this property but there's a lot of people in this city who have lost their lives and their livelihoods.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

"Actually,there were a lot of Chinese going back to the People's Republic of China at that time, ninety-thousand in one year from Fukien Province alone.

VOA: special.2011.06.10

And that's where they stayed. Some people say they raised a family up there.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

"People put up their own videos. There's kind of a grassroots, more home-cooking oriented movement online where people share videos and put them up on their blogs."

VOA: special.2010.12.27

"Once you get noticed by a company, it gets a lot easier, but it's so hard to get noticed because there's so many people looking for so few jobs."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

But recently there's been an increase of retaliatory attacks by people on the other side, including a slightly mysterious group called the Invisible Commandos who've been operating against Gbagbo."

VOA: special.2011.04.02

"If there's one lesson that we've learned, it's that unfettered market where people are taking huge risks and expecting taxpayers to bail them out when things go sour is simply not acceptable."

VOA: special.2010.04.16

A people's dream died there."

VOA: special.2010.04.08

"The nicest thing is you can still see their colors. There's enough contrast so that you can tell the difference between a red star and a blue star and show people that stars have colors.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

She has read the book four times. "I think if anything, this story talks about humanity and the universality of humans and how there's goodness in people and you just have to get to know one another."

VOA: special.2010.07.08

"I think a film like this can make a difference by raising people's awareness of not only the problems that are out there, because a lot of films are gloom and doom, but solutions that are out there.

VOA: special.2009.03.25