"No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery,to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Helen also learned how to ride a horse, to swim,to row a boat and, even to climb trees.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

But we need to continue to not lose sight of where we need to go to increase opportunities for people to get employed in new jobs."

VOA: special.2011.04.08

I said, well, I was very happy to hear it." Today, people who want to listen to tapes of Willis Conover have to go to College Park, Maryland.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

May Rihani says: "The mother would recognize that this education is important to her and to her family and would want the child to continue to go to school."

VOA: special.2010.05.20

"I realized that if I was going to write, what I was going to have to do instead was to write what I was willing to learn instead of what I knew.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

"Haitian nationals will be able to remain in the United States legally, be able to obtain authorization to work legally in the United States, be eligible to obtain permission to travel outside the United States, and return to their T.P.S.status."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

We didn't have that in the eight-millimeter days. We had to lug a projector, we had to plug it in to somebody's wall, put up a screen and show it to someone patient enough to sit there for five minutes and watch.

VOA: special.2011.06.20

So I like to share things about what's going on. And we like to go out to dinner to different places, for example,and I like to share 'Hey we're at this place and this is what we had and it was good.'

VOA: special.2009.09.14

"Rather than try to bring a lot of infrastructure to them and expect them to learn how to use the Internet, the idea was to make a technology that even Grandma could use, figuring that Grandma could probably walk up to a box and push a button."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

"Safety and security of our volunteers is absolutely our top priority and we are continually looking at this topic and I have to say that in the last few years we have done an amazing amount of work to try to improve both our systems to support volunteers, to ensure confidentiality and to strengthen their preparedness and training."

VOA: special.2011.03.28

So instead of watching bullying take place or joining in with the bullying, these programs teach bystanders how to stand up and be supportive of the kids who are being victimized and to say 'You know we don't do that here, we don't engage in those behaviors.'" Professor Swearer advises parents and teachers to try to get children to talk to them about being bullied.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor and whereas both houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

VOA: special.2009.11.23

We are mentally ready to go to Nigeria and we are going to be OK because we are going to go to play soccer.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22