91.   Engineers are considering other ways to protect the heart of the city and provide an island of refuge in the French Quarter and government centers.

92.   Even as computers are vilified for running our lives, they are also seen as islands of precision in an imprecise world.

93.   Finally, human activity in cities generates extra heat that creates an island of urban heat at night.

94.   Fine embroidery from the islands of Madeira and the Azores is sold here, along with a wide variety of antiques and ceramics.

95.   For decades apartheid laws kept downtown Johannesburg an island of pristine European order in the midst of Africa.

96.   For hundreds of years, the islands of the southern Philippines have been the base of gangs that relied on piracy and kidnapping for a living.

97.   For several seasons now his collections have been islands of sanity in a sea of trite and sometimes obnoxious fashions.

98.   Frog Hollow may sound like something out of Mark Twain, but it is an island of despair.

99.   Four Coast Guardsmen and three Customs Service inspectors stood on the islands of a truck port.

100.   From the islands of Melanesia and Polynesia come intricate and sometimes spooky wooden carvings.