He says the team he works on got interested in studying energy drinks because of the explosion in their popularity in the last few years.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Margaret Smith, a leader in Washington society at that time, wrote a letter describing the scene: Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

"I just got in the sled. I was focused. I knew the lines I had to drive.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

University of California- San Francisco psychiatrist and neuroscientist Allison Doupe got interested in finches because they provide a model for understanding how people learn to speak.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

They truly got into the spirit. And in the second party one of the students took the microphone and she got everyone to start singing Christmas songs, which to me helped bring up the whole spirit of why we were there."

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

She remembers that she did. "I think like many of the children in our world, I got interested in science just from having a butterfly net and from having a few strainers and some boots and going down to the streams and creeks and being out in the fields."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

In addition to a set of rules, Knox Gardner got a website and declared National Soup Swap Day in January.

VOA: special.2010.11.22

While in school, Benny got a job as a violin player with the Barrison Theater, the local vaudeville house.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

Steven Slater apparently argued with a passenger over baggage in the overhead bin and got hit on the head.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Twenty-two year old Sarah Kramer just got her degree in biomedical engineering from Columbia University in New York.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

He received fifty dollars in prize money and got a job editing the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

Earlier, the president noted a report which showed that Wall Street bankers got more than 18 billion dollars in bonuses last year.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there, When Washington took it across the Delaware.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Would you want a doctor who got high marks in medical school just for trying really,really hard?

VOA: special.2009.03.12