Lou Marchetti, local business agent for the Teamsters, says he never thought he would organize medical marijuana providers.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

Rebecca Skloot says the Lacks family tested everything she thought she knew about faith, science,reporting and race.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

The National Park Service says early colonial settlers and land developers thought the Everglades had little value.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Professor Reppert says scientists thought they understood the control system in the monarchs until they took a closer look at the insects' antenna.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

After Gatsby's death,Nick Carraway, the storyteller,says: "I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first recognized the green light at the end of Daisy's boat dock.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

She says her family thought motor racing was not safe and mainly for men.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

(Sound) She says many thought that only grown-ups have rights and children were just there to do what they are told.

VOA: standard.2009.11.22

Demong says he had the ring for a while, but thought Thursday was the right time to ask.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

Before that,she says, students from her high school never thought they could get into a grande ecole.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

He says it could also affect its outcome. "Before April 10, most people thought that Lech Kaczynski was not electable for a second term."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Felgenhauer says decisions about such matters in Russia are made behind closed doors and are not always fully thought through, which he characterizes as a feature of authoritarian regimes.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

I have to get involved in education.'" Taylor thought he could make a difference in the inner city, where he says minority students often drop out and waste their talent.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

While the Heimlich maneuver is a good thing to know, Dr.Gary Smith,a pediatrician, says many foods that are thought to be kid friendly are actually dangerous like grapes,popcorn,nuts, bratwurst and hot dogs.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

"When he is starting to write a movie, he says he just sits there at the typewriter waiting for a thought bubble to emerge over his head that will finally get his fingers dancing across the keys."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

we are human beings,'". Khalaf says that before working on this book, she never thought much about the death penalty, but she was deeply touched by reading the stories of men who often grew up in broken homes and who,as one inmate says, "became lost souls as children."

VOA: standard.2009.10.21