31.  Any roots at the edge that are larger in diameter than half a pencil's width should be worked free and spread out before planting.

32.  Any round table is nicer than any table with corners.

33.  Cuba's last oil discovery in 1995 tapped oil so heavy it more resembled boot polish than fuels like the diesel and gasoline derived from crude petroleum.

34.  Cubism, abstraction and Surrealism looked like entirely new modes of representation belonging more to imagination than to vision.

35.  Cubs first baseman Mark Grace knows the new ball has helped make Wrigley Field's confines friendlier than ever.

36.  Cubs manager Jim Riggleman can sympathize with Wohlers better than most.

37.  CUC shares fell 1 3/4 to 23 1/4 in trading of 13.3 million, more than the three-month daily average.

38.  CUC's shares fell 3/16 to 30 13/16 in trading of 1.68 million, less than their three-month daily average of 2.17 million.

39.  Cuffe, the team's only legitimate offensive threat taller than 6 feet 8, was gouged in the right eye during practice on Friday and is out indefinitely.

40.  Culinary entrepreneurs _ often young and richer in talent than money _ are rediscovering the Village, for generations a haven for creative New Yorkers.