1.   Almost that exact thought encouraged Kalman-Hicks to join a handful of other seniors at Montclair High School in working with ninth graders as writing coaches.

2.   And, more recently, there was the announcement that RPI would join a handful of elite institutions that require their students to own laptop computers.

3.   Biskind will join a handful of doctors across the country who face prison time because of their medical care.

4.   A few smaller independent record labels already are selling music online, joining a handful of artists, including the rap artists Public Enemy.

5.   By then he had joined the handful of biophysicists who employed crystallography to plumb the secrets of enzyme function by charting the structure of proteins.

6.   Chen, after conducting his own investigations in the countryside, joined the handful of leaders who dared to confront Mao with the evidence of disaster.

7.   CITIBANK CARDS BLOCKED IN GAMBLING Citibank has joined a handful of other credit card issuers in blocking use of its cards for Internet gambling transactions.

8.   Dial Corp. joined a handful of companies that are dividing their businesses to give their stock a lift.

9.   He joined a handful of pioneer State Department dissenters who left across two administrations protesting Balkan policy.

10.   In Atlanta, at least three new African restaurants have opened in the past year, joining a handful of existing ones.