"Worst-case scenario, if I don't find a job by the end of August, I move back with my parents."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

During tough times -- I mean we are in a recession right now -- this is like affordable luxury.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Small towns in the Appalachian Mountains needed nurse-midwives and I went to a town called Truitt, my father's first name.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

I saw it clearly -- all a dull blue, with a horrible veil over it that chilled my bones;

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Yet,when it comes to my own money, I spend it at the drop of a hat - immediately,without waiting.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

But the anger was directed mainly at one hundred sixty-five million dollars in bonuses paid to employees of A.I.G.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

I was a first-year student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and was relaxing between classes at the student union building.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

He is a leader in the sign-making industry - a real big gun,if you know what I mean.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

So what happens? He gets a title shot outdoors in the ballpark, and what do I get, a one-way ticket to Palookaville.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

I talked more and with a heightened voice. Yet the sound increased -- and what could I do?

VOA: special.2009.05.16

"I want a grandchild.I'll be seventy in July, and I just -- whether they get married or not, I want a grandchild."

VOA: special.2011.05.23

One evening in Paris, during the autumn of eighteen forty-five, I went to visit a friend, Auguste Dupin.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

I thought the heart must burst. And now a new fear seized me -- the sound would be heard by a neighbor!

VOA: special.2009.05.16

And..Sola! I would have you greet your father -- Tars Tarkas -- a great leader among your people.

VOA: special.2010.07.31