An up-and-comer who's now a down- and-outer. Do you remember that scene in the back of the car with his brother Charlie a small time racket guy?

VOA: special.2009.11.30

Sometimes, sciencecan seem overwhelming. There are complicated concepts, unimaginably large - or small - objects, and vast distances that most people have a hard time understanding.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Since the space was small and climate-controlled, staffers allowed only small groups in for a few minutes at a time, which was enough to cure most people's olfactory curiosity.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

"The one-time cost of our system which consists of a small solar panel, a little motorcycle-sized battery and a couple of LED lamps, is less than one hundred dollars,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

"The detainees were kept naked for weeks, months at a time - kept in very small cells, whose temperatures were kept artificially low, sometimes to the extent that the naked detainees, as one official said,seemed to turn blue,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

"And what I don't want to hear is when they're spending that kind of money on their shareholders and spending that kind of money on TV advertising that they're nickel-and-diming fishermen or small businesses here in the Gulf who are having a hard time."

VOA: standard.2010.06.10