He hears a noise at the window. Here is the beginning of the poem: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -- While I nodded,nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping -- rapping at my chamber door.

VOA: special.2010.10.31

There are some patients for whom physicians are really on the fence about whether to give one therapy or another.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

If you plant some seeds every week or two, you will have harvests ready to eat one after another.

VOA: special.2010.10.12

If you plant some seeds every week or two, you will have crops ready to eat one after another.

VOA: special.2009.04.28

But at one time, some businesses refused to employ people who were on a blacklist for belonging to unpopular organizations.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

But the wiring,the cables between the points in the brain, one to another, may be disrupted in some way."

VOA: special.2010.12.21

Some economists think the plan needs to provide as much as one trillion dollars or more to be effective.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

The World Health Organization says one in three women around the world will experience some form of violence in their lifetime.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

Some experiments are already taking place in the mine at a depth of about one thousand five hundred meters.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Jack Benny was one of the first comedians who was willing to let other people share some of the laughs.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

These are some of our favorites. One of the most famous songs about summer is from George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess."

VOA: special.2009.06.22

Some festivals, like the one in Adelaide,Australia, are very large and have been going on for many years.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Louisiana is also one of the world's largest producers of what some call "the most important fish you've never heard of": menhaden.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

But last October, Google reached a one hundred twenty-five million dollar legal settlement to also make parts of some copyrighted books available.

VOA: special.2009.07.24