11.  Dennis Johnson, the former Sonics great and now a Celtics assistant, sees in Payton the mark of a winning leader.

12.  Dennis Jr. now has a stack of e-mails and faxes to read, more stuff on top of Mrs. Rooker's usual homework assignments.

13.  Dennis Marks, the ENO's general director, said there was now no question that the company would survive.

14.  Dennis Occhino, a Flushing native now living in Oyster Bay, N.Y., watched anxiously as the sweep bus for injured runners chugged by.

15.  Dennis, now 80 and living in Princess Anne, Md., remains bitter.

16.  Denny's, the restaurant chain, is the main holding of a company now called Flagstar and once known as TW Holdings.

17.  Denver had been moving in that direction the last couple years anyway, but now Shanahan is installing basically the same playbook he used with the 49ers.

18.  Denver International Airport, once lampooned as a white elephant, now has attracted eight major office and industrial projects and 19 hotel projects.

19.  Denver now has new baseball, football and hockey stadiums.

20.  Defibrillators now are implanted in about 32,000 patients a year worldwide, of which about 25,000 are in the U.S.