He told his son-in-law in December: "I will not say I would not serve if the good people were to be so unwise as to elect me."

VOA: special.2009.03.05

The videos were to be no longer than three minutes.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

The new guns were to be fired for the president.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

But all sharks were to be released.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

The books were to be turned into pulp. More history texts were burned the following day at another demonstration in Simferopol,the capital of Crimea.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

"More alarmingly,WHO estimates if the combined effect of decreased financial and political commitment were to be sustained or continued, this could result to a return of a half a million measles deaths each year by 2012, wiping out the gains made over the past 18 years."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

To be considered for the study, children were supposed to be close to cigarette smoke at least 5 times a day.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Another difference: The study found that African-American and Latino children were more likely to be bullies compared to white children.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Later,after he had returned to England, he would be shocked to find that these very different birds were all finches.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

"Friendship,position,wealth everything that makes life desirable to an ambitious man were about to be swept away by my answer."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

A dance at the Mich home and a plate of Madame Mich's gumbo were pleasures not to be missed.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

The caterpillars were suspected to be African armyworms -- so named because they look like an army on the march.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

Supporters in the senators' home states were told to write hundreds of letters demanding that Johnson be found guilty.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

The researchers say the nanodiamonds were all found in a level of soil thought to be about 13,000 years old.

VOA: special.2009.01.20