11.   Strangely enough, at Burning Man you really do encounter people struggling to give things away.

12.   The nudists say the signs would solve the problems, informing the public they might encounter naked people on certain sections of the beach.

13.   They encountered people who were eccentric, to say the least.

14.   Two generations ago, a Lacandon could walk for days in the forest without encountering other people.

15.   Yet never before have I encountered a people so unfailingly optimistic in the face of mind-numbing adversity.

16.   Yet when Whipple was hired at UMass last December, he encountered several people who were more than anxious to inform him of what he was getting into.

17.   A visitor to virtually any village in the mostly devastated countryside encounters people facing almost unimaginable trauma, both physical and emotional.

18.   But they are mostly the head-in-textbook type, who thumb their noses in disdain when they encounter people of less intellect and academic training.

19.   John Paul is expected to hold a Mass in Beirut, encounter young people and meet with religious and political figures.

20.   One must remember that journalists encounter people at the intimate personal level or know the heartache of so many individuals.