31.  Any retreat from our national and state efforts now not only would harm students but would limit our competitive position in the global marketplace.

32.  Any season now, "The Practice" could go all goofy and "Ally McBeal" on us, but so far it remains amazingly good.

33.  Culiacan residents say drug smugglers now come each year to pray for bountiful marijuana and opium poppy harvests, successful shipments of cocaine and protection from enemy bullets.

34.  Culinary Institute graduates now take jobs in corporate dining management, product research and development and food writing, to name just a few areas.

35.  Cullen, now with the Tampa Bay Lightning, Monday declined through the team to discuss Bessette.

36.  Cullen/Frost investors or acquirers now have the added incentive of a Mexico play.

37.  Deregulation is designed to allow buyers to choose a power supplier the same way they now pick a long-distance carrier.

38.  Derek Bok, the former president and now a university professor at Harvard, acknowledges that any kind of national test for college students is highly unlikely.

39.  Derek Lowe is a fifth, though for now he is in the rotation in the place of the injured Butch Henry.

40.  Derivations are a secondary issue, though, as long as we all agree on what the expressions mean now.