On the way home from school she takes a short cut through a barley field where she is startled by a neighbor, Mr.Harvey.

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

Startled by the intense beam he generated when he rigged the diode to his bike generator, he recalls saying to his partner, "Good God,a child could read by the light of a single diode."

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

In Cairo,many were startled by the development, with some commenting that Mr.Obama had only been in office for under a year, and that it was "unusual for such a young president" to win the peace prize.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09