with her mother and brother. Safia says she wrote her first poem for a high school English class three years ago.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

From that time until she was almost seven years old, Helen could communicate only by making signs with her hands.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

After a few minutes of this, she went to her place at the table and began to eat with her fingers.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

He never returned. But many nights Sylvie heard the sound of his whistle as she came home with her grandmother's cow.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

How I wished I had the power to enter that bright light and float with her through those beautiful forests.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

An actor who worked with Katharine Hepburn once said that she brought with her an extra level of reality.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

The story is told by Sara Louise Bradshaw, a 13-year-old girl who lives with her parents and her twin sister Caroline.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

It was already eight o'clock and Sylvie wondered if her grandmother would be angry with her for being so late.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

The popular story of Molly Brown is that she was on the Titanic returning home to a happy life with her husband.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

They had to work. By the time Sarah was five years old, she was picking cotton in the fields with her family.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

One of the Russians,Anna Chapman, captured attention with her looks and stories of her New York party life.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Katherine Cole tells us more. When Rosanne Cash was eighteen years old, she was traveling with her father on a performance tour.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

She won many Grammy Awards. With her seventy albums, she became the most famous voice of salsa music.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

How her soul had burned in pain when she had seen him run to meet that woman, with her look of victory.

VOA: special.2009.04.18