The rituals enhance their satisfaction with life and create optimistic beliefs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

But with that longer life, people with Down syndrome may have an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease at an early age.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Many experts also think Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" included incidents of his life with his mother after Giles Joplin left.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Though she never ran for office, she spent her life energetically working to improve the lives of people with developmental problems.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

For over sixty years, Sendak's artistic skill has brought to life richly imaginative worlds filled with children, animals and magical creatures.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Then, he finished a study program in non-profit management because he wanted to do something different with his life.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Rene Rivera says strong family ties and a shared Catholic faith helped people deal with the hard life in their community.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Lincoln never joined a church, but he believed in a supreme being who created every person with a purpose in life.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

However,because Hank's songs told of real-life troubles with such great emotion, something unusual began to happen to his music.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Rockman often shows nature as defined by a struggle for survival with a never-ending repetition of life and death.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

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

Blinded by a meaningless imperfection and an impossible goal, Aylmer had thrown away her life and with it his chance for happiness.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

He seemed to kill for no reason, and with no emotion, as if taking someone's life meant nothing.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

With her pictures in Life magazine, she told a story about America's "Wild West" in the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2009.05.17