This meant that people in Chicago liked to brag or talk about how great their city was.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

I filled this room with expensive scientific equipment that I did not know how to use.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

This week,we will tell how people who are lonely can spread that feeling to others.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

"How strange," I thought, "that this beautiful place has no animal life in it."

VOA: special.2009.07.25

When I tell you," said Joseph Taylor, "that he is not as fit to be president as I am, you will see how foolish this idea is."

VOA: special.2009.03.05

This means that their eyes can tell a lot about how they feel.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

Now,we admit that we do not know how this expression developed.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Let us see how all the questions that have arisen out of this unhappy subject of slavery can be better settled more fairly and justly than the plan I have offered.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Judge Melvin Wright explains how the D.C.Superior Court handles this issue: "We instruct jurors that they cannot during the course of a trial use Google or Twitter or any other electronic device to obtain information.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens."

VOA: special.2010.02.06

This is how she described what she could see from that house on a hill: "The far-off mountains in all their grandeur, and the deep valleys, and widely extended plains, and more than all, that little village below, containing only a very few white houses, but more than those young eyes had ever seen."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

This much scientists knew. However,they were not clear on how that receptor was activated when this kind of painful event occurred.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"This walk down the ramp in general celebrates Walt's love of trains, and how that led him to found Disney Land.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26