Mark Johnson's idea, "Playing for Change," is now a CD,a DVD, a documentary film, a nonprofit organization and a company.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

The team includes Muslims and Christians,mothers,a librarian, a business student and a woman who competed in a beauty pageant.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

So you feel like you are a guest in a home instead of a visitor in a huge, impersonal museum.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

There is a risk that giving a patient a strong blood thinner during a stroke can cause bleeding inside the brain.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

At first he is a captive, then a warrior, and after many battles, a prince of a royal family.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

At a slam earlier this month, one poet performed a piece about a girl with a very troubled mother.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

But to a new generation of high-speed communicators, a tweet describes a message sent through a popular new service.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

An A is worth four points, a B three points, a C two points and a D one point.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

She takes a job as a babysitter for a woman and her husband who have adopted a child of mixed race.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

They are in a dark room. But a General Electric light on a nearby table coverds them with a soft warm glow.

VOA: special.2010.09.20

A passenger in a car threw a grenade that exploded as a crowd demonstrated against the Yemeni government.

VOA: special.2011.02.19

Getting a grade like a B-plus or a C-minus adds or subtracts a few tenths of a point.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

The only evidence was cut into a tree and a fence: the letters C-R-O and the word Croatoan,C-R-O-A-T-O-A-N.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

People do not need a job or a good credit history to get a loan from a pawnbroker.

VOA: special.2011.04.18