1.   A few hopefuls lingered near a handwritten sign taped to a fence offering free back rubs.

2.   A handwritten sign taped inside the front door of the Jasper County Courthouse casually reminded the last person out to lock up.

3.   All week, the people have poured forth, offering handwritten signs, personal remembrances and, most striking of all, bouquets for Princess Diana.

4.   But up close its streets swarm with vendors, squatters have taken over all the empty lots and handwritten signs are tacked to anything upright.

5.   Earlier Friday, handwritten signs pleading for food, water, electricity and telephone service appeared in the windows of the residence.

6.   Handwritten signs hang from the ceiling in the simple shack where Chico Mendes lived and died.

7.   His locker here is adorned with handwritten signs, which feature the liberal use of exclamation points.

8.   Near each neighborhood cluster, marked by handwritten signs, residents cooked on small gas stoves, making corn tortillas, rice and soup and boiling water for drinking.

9.   She spotted this handwritten sign in the window of a recently closed Chinese restaurant on the Upper East Side.

10.   Some held handwritten signs.