Elliott Carter has written over one hundred thirty works, many of which he composed after the age of ninety.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

The National Council on Teacher Quality is a research group that works to increase the number of effective teachers.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

His exciting works made the west and the cowboy come to life for millions who never saw a real cowboy.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

In the future, other works by female artists will be shown as part of the museum's "New York Avenue Sculpture Project".

VOA: special.2010.05.07

The project also works to prevent languages from dying out by identifying the most threatened areas where languages are disappearing.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Doctor Singhal works with a volunteer organization based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, that helps people take care of their camels.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

"I try to make works of art out of something everybody uses all day: dollar bills and quarters and credit cards.

VOA: special.2011.01.31

Tim Kane is with the Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation, a nonprofit in the United States that works to increase entrepreneurship worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Every year, seven thousand babies are born at the health center where Ousmane Ndiaye works in Guediaway, outside Dakar.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Her works are played by orchestras and at music festivals around the world, and this year she won a Pulitzer Prize.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Trains also found their way into the works of writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

In nineteen eighty-two, a British scientist shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in part for discovering how aspirin works.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

The Innocence Project is a group that works to help prisoners who could be proven innocent by DNA testing.

VOA: special.2009.10.03

And it works! " Delores Clemens says her students also learn how to be good mothers by letting themselves be mothered.

VOA: special.2010.05.13