"We don't want to be rebels and betray our families, but we do want to leave home and do interesting and challenging things that maybe our families don't understand because they are still stuck in the old world a little bit.'" In the novel,Gabi faces another dilemma.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

In many parts of the world it is done when a baby is a few days old.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

He was eighty-four years old. Joel Breman says,"Doctor Close left his mark on the world."

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Two weeks ago, sixteen year old Stacy performed a poem about the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

But by nineteen seventy-nine, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine had become an old ship.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

"Next spring, I'm going to release a book set in the modern day world but a fantasy based on Egyptian mythology, bringing all those old Egyptian gods back to life."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

A month earlier,twenty-six year old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break the four-minute mile, one of the most celebrated barriers in sport.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

The magical world of Disney animation lost its cornerstone in 1966 when the 65-year-old Disney died of lung cancer.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Bolt shattered his old mark by 11-100ths of a second to set the new world record of 19.19 seconds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

But he added that, just as the United States must change the way it conducts itself in the world, so too must its neighbors abandon old attitudes.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17